Jewish Law and American Law, Volume 1: A Comparative Study (Touro University Press)

This volume contributes to the growing field of comparative Jewish and American law, presenting twenty-six essays characterized by a number of distinct features. The essays will appeal to legal scholars and, at the same time, will be accessible and of interest to a more general audience of intellectually curious readers. These contributions are faithful to Jewish law on its own terms, while applying comparative methods to offer fresh perspectives on complex issues in the Jewish legal system. Through careful comparative analysis, the essays also turn to Jewish law to provide insights into substantive and conceptual areas of the American legal system, particularly areas of American law that are complex, controversial, and unsettled.

History

Levine, Samuel J.

World

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Jewish Law and American Law, Volume 2: A Comparative Study (Touro University Press)

While the oft-quoted saying “the more things change, the more they stay the same” seems to aptly describe the nature of social life, the reverse may be equally accurate: the more things stay the same, the more they change. Indeed, the recognized institutions of human society, of which religion is a primary example, are both sources of stability and continuity as well as innovation and change. The dynamics of Jewish religious continuity and change are presented in this book through a group of distinguished scholars from the fields of sociology, history, medicine, religion, and Jewish studies examining key cases and themes in religious life, emphasizing illustrations of the maintenance of tradition and facing of trends pressing for transformation. This volume demonstrates the importance of case studies and historical, ideological, and philosophical surveys in understanding the actions of individual, organizational or communal actors attempting to create, maintain, or disrupt religious institutions, across geographical boundaries and time frames. This research has the potential not only to positively affect scholarly discussions, but also to generate greater understanding and dialogue among those who study Jewish life and those who work in Jewish organizations and live and function in religious communities. Indeed, the book brings a sophisticated understanding of Jewish law, religious texts, communities and institutions, of the interplay of internal and external social and ideological forces, of the impact of organizations, and of the potential for individuals and groups to shape their religious environments.

Dynamics of Continuity and Change in Jewish Religious Life (Touro University Press)

Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 (Volume I): Rebellion Launched, 1945-1946 (Touro University Press)

Volume 1: Rebellion Launched, 1945-1946 Preface The 100,000 Tenuat HaMeri HaIvri The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry “Black Sabbath” to the Hotel Royal Monceau Truman, Bevin, and the World Zionist Congress Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land. Professor Monty Noam Penkower explores developments in Palestine and in the Arab states, including how the Palestine quagmire became a pawn in inter-Arab feuds; British and American responses both official and public; the role of Holocaust survivors; the context of the Cold War; and the saga as it unfolded in the corridors of the United Nations. Joining extensive archival research to a lucid prose, the two volumes offer a riveting conclusion to his Palestine in Turmoil and Decision on Palestine Deferred.

Penkower, Monty Noam

Middle East

Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land. Professor Monty Noam Penkower explores developments in Palestine and in the Arab states, including how the Palestine quagmire became a pawn in inter-Arab feuds; British and American responses both official and public; the role of Holocaust survivors; the context of the Cold War; and the saga as it unfolded in the corridors of the United Nations. Joining extensive archival research to a lucid prose, the two volumes offer a riveting conclusion to his Palestine in Turmoil and Decision on Palestine Deferred.

Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 (Volume II): Into the International Arena, 1947-1948 (Touro University Press)

Volume 2: Into the International Arena, 1947-1948 To the United Nations UNSCOP, Two Sergeants, and the Exodus 1947 Partition Civil War Statehood at Long Last Conclusion Bibliography Index Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land. Professor Monty Noam Penkower explores developments in Palestine and in the Arab states, including how the Palestine quagmire became a pawn in inter-Arab feuds; British and American responses both official and public; the role of Holocaust survivors; the context of the Cold War; and the saga as it unfolded in the corridors of the United Nations. Joining extensive archival research to a lucid prose, the two volumes offer a riveting conclusion to his Palestine in Turmoil and Decision on Palestine Deferred.

This book includes an analysis of the Jehoash Inscription Tablet, which describes renovations made to the First Temple and is considered the only written evidence of its existence. At the same time, a new technique for authenticating artifacts is described: this is especially important in determining the authenticity of artifacts collected from unprovenanced sites. Other subjects treated in the book are: the only known stone oil lamp with שבעת המינים carved onto seven nozzles, which was archaeometrically analyzed to verify its authenticity, and is thought to have been used during the Second Temple Period in rituals that necessitated that laws of purity be followed; and the James Ossuary, displaying the Aramaic inscription Ya'akov bar-Yosef akhui diYeshua (James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus), which, if genuine, might provide archaeological evidence for Jesus of Nazareth and indicate that the ossuary was that of James the Just, the older brother of Jesus.

Geoarchaeology of Israel (Touro University Press)

Drawing from doctoral level research on how best to teach business education to college students, Discourses on Business Education at the College Level illustrates new and proven ideas for engaging students. Sixteen authors from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development describe their experiences in upgrading and expanding the quality of the business education experience. Business school instructors can use this edited collection to draw inspiration and learn specific techniques to bring their courses to the cutting edge of curriculum. Topics range from teaching accounting, financial literacy, marketing, and teamwork to gamification, improving international student and intern experience, not-for credit education, and virtual workplace learning.

Discourses on Business Education at the College Level: On the Boundaries of Content and Praxis (Touro University Press)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

For a century, Jews were an unmistakable and prominent feature of Shanghai life. They built hotels and stood in bread lines, hobnobbed with the British and Chinese elites and were confined to a wartime ghetto. Jews taught at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, sold Viennese pastries, and shared the worst slum with native Shanghainese. Three waves of Jews, representing three religious and ethnic communities, landed in Shanghai, remained separate for decades, but faced the calamity of World War II and ultimate dissolution together.
In this book, we hear their own words and the words of modern scholars explaining how Baghdadi, Russian and Central European Jews found their way to Shanghai, created lives in the world’s most cosmopolitan city, and were forced to find new homes in the late 1940s.

A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai (Touro University Press)

Asia

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Jewish Law and American Law, Volume 1: A Comparative Study (Touro University Press)

Jewish Law and American Law, Volume 2: A Comparative Study (Touro University Press)

Dynamics of Continuity and Change in Jewish Religious Life (Touro University Press)

Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 (Volume I): Rebellion Launched, 1945-1946 (Touro University Press)

Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 (Volume I): Rebellion Launched, 1945-1946 (Touro University Press)

Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 (Volume II): Into the International Arena, 1947-1948 (Touro University Press)

Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 (Volume II): Into the International Arena, 1947-1948 (Touro University Press)

Geoarchaeology of Israel (Touro University Press)

Discourses on Business Education at the College Level: On the Boundaries of Content and Praxis (Touro University Press)

A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai (Touro University Press)