Through a mixture of the contemporary and the traditional, this book makes for a fascinating, personal insight into Judaism. Tens of thousands of copies have found their way into homes and libraries. A very popular selection for prize and presentations. This is the standard work on Judaism and how to live it.

How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household

History

Greenberg, Blu

World

Touchstone

Jewish and other religious leaders, critics and readers everywhere have embraced Greenberg's guide to understanding, accepting and incorporating the ways of Orthodox Judaism into contemporary households. Here she leads us into the mysteries and complexities of the Orthodox Jewish ways: Kashrut and Shabbat; daily rituals, prayers and blessings; education and parenting; the rules of dress and speech; holidays and remembrances; what Judaism says about sex, morality, birth control and abortion; and the expanding role of women in Orthodox Jewish ritual and observance. This readable guide has appeal to a broad audience -- both observant and not -- who will find that Greenberg blends info., religious thought, and autobiography in a way that claims the reader's attention.

How To Run A Traditional Jewish House

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Diane Pub Co.

The classical standard text dealing with women and their role in Judaism

On women & Judaism: A view from tradition

Jewish Publication Society of America

A classic for more than 20 years, this thought-provoking volume explores the role of Jewish women in the synagogue, in the family, and in the secular world. Greenberg offers ways to change present Jewish practices so that they more readily reflect feminine equality.

On Women and Judaism: A View From Tradition

JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY

Filled with practical advice as well as history, Blu Greenberg's book is a comprehensive guide to the joys and complexities of running a modern Jewish home. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household is a modern, comprehensive guide covering virtually every aspect of Jewish home life. It provides practical advice on how to manage a Jewish home in the traditional way and offers fascinating accounts of the history behind the tradition. In a warm, personal style, Blu Greenberg shows that, contrary to popular belief, the home, and not the synagogue, is the most important institution in Jewish life. Divided into three large sections–"The Jewish Way," "Special Stages of Life," and "Celebration and Remembering"–this book educates the uninitiated and reminds the already observant Jew of how Judaism approaches daily life. Topics include prayer, dress, holidays, food preparation, marriage, birth, death, parenthood, and many others. This description of the modern-yet-traditional Jewish household will earn special regard among the many American Jews who are reexploring their ties to Jewish tradition. Such Jews will find this book a flexible guide that provides a knowledge of the requirements of traditional Judaism without advocating immediate and complete compliance. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household will also appeal to observant Jews, providing them with helpful tips on how to manage their homes and special insights into the most minute details and procedures in a traditional household. Herself a traditional Jew, Blu Greenberg is nevertheless quite sympathetic to feminist views on the role of women in Jewish observance. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household therefore speaks intimately to women who are struggling to reconcile their identities as modern women with their commitments to traditional Judaism.

How To Run a Traditional Jewish Household

Jason Aronson

The Holocaust was - and remains - an incomprehensible event in human history. Only through the stories of survivors - the minutest detail, the retelling a single moment of that horrorcan one begin to fathom the enormity of it. Only through fragments of their memories can one dimly comprehend the separations, the indignities, the pain, as well as the courage, caring and life affirming impulses of those who lived and died inside that whirlwind. Many of the poems in this book are based on vignettes that survivors shared with the author, and Greenberg lovingly dedicates this book to them. But this book is not only about survivors' lives and memories. It is also about the life and emotions of an American born Jew, a woman whose awareness of the Holocaust came much after the historical event. Like so many others who grew up on safe shores far distant from the cataclysm, Blu Greenberg was internally transformed by knowledge of the event. She calls it the Holocaust factor, a consciousness that springs autonomously into action, injecting itself into the most ordinary moments of life, interpreting and coloring everyday experience - taking a shower, riding a bus, unexpectedly coming upon a child sitting cross legged on the living room sofa, flying to Winnipeg, eating black bread. The reader, who shares this same range of ordinary experiences, will undoubtedly find great resonance here. Yet there is another level at which these poems can be read. The Holocaust raises the most profound and terrifying questions, unanswerable questions, questions that can barely be asked - about God, spirituality, good and evil in the world, chosenness, tradition and faithfulness, relations between Jews and non-Jews, the efficacy of prayer, and more. The medium of poetry has the ability to evoke thoughts without speaking them. Many of these potent issues are raised in this collection, with subtlety and restraint, and without straying from the personal and the narrative.

Black Bread: Poems, After the Holocaust

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc

New Book Seeks Agunah Solutions An Israeli legal scholar offers rabbinic sources to show precedents for leniency in freeing women from marital limbo. Debra Nussbaum Cohen--Staff Writer. A new book by an Israeli legal expert, Aviad Hacohen, promises to return to public attention the legal technique used to dissolve the marriages of agunot, women whose estranged husbands refused to grant them a Jewish divorce, an approach which prompted waves of controversy in 1997, when it was first used. That was when Rabbi Emmanuel Rackman, chancellor emeritus of Bar Ilan University, went public with the fact that he was employing little-used aspects of Jewish law in order to free hundreds of women whose husbands were keeping them legally chained to dead marriages. Rabbi Rackman's work was met with criticism from rabbis in virtually all sectors of the Orthodox world. But, with the assistance of a handful of rabbinic colleagues and supportive women, he has continued to solve the dilemmas of agunot, doing so for several dozen in the last year or two and several hundred in total, he said in an interview. The heart of the new book The Tears of the Oppressed: An Examination of the Agunah Problem--Background and Halachic Sources (Ktav), is devoted to the same legal principle that Rabbi Rackman employed: kiddushei ta' ut, or mistaken marriage, a principle based on asserting that the marriage was never authentic and therefore need not be annulled. The book, edited by Blu Greenberg, a Jewish Orthodox feminist leader, offers 28 rabbinic legal decisions, originally published from the 12th through 20th centuries, as precedents for solving the agunot dilemma through this application. For scholars, the bookincludes facsimiles of the original decisions; some are well known, and others Hacohen unearthed from near-forgotten files at Israel's National Library.

The Tears Of The Oppressed: An Examination Of The Agunah Problem: Background And Halakhic Sources (English and Hebrew Edition)

Hacohen, Aviad

A Special Kind of Mother

Atara Pub Co

King Solomon and Queen of Sheba

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Simcha Media Group

The story of KING SOLOMON AND THE QUEEN OF SHEBA tells how Queen Makeda set out to learn whether King Solomon truly possessed the wisdom of the ages. She devises a series of clever riddles that will putsolomon to the test. But as the king answers her riddles, Makeda realizes that she has discovered more than wisdom; she has found a whole new way of looking at the world...and at God.

King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba

Tarry, Linda

Katz, Avi

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