David Ellenson: 7 books
Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice
Studies in Tradition and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime.
These essays center...
Pledges of Jewish Allegiance
Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated—culturally, socially, and politically—into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity have occupied...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 6
Tachanun and Concluding Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
"The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul."
This stunning...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 3
P'sukei D'zimrah (Morning Psalms)
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
"The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul."
This stunning...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 8
Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming Shabbat in the Synagogue)
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
"The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by generations of those who came before us, as they endeavored to express the meaning of their lives and their relationship to God. The prayer book is the essence of the Jewish soul."
This stunning...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 7
Shabbat at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Opens up the traditional Jewish prayer book as a spiritual resource....This groundbreaking new series involves us in a personal dialogue with God, history and tradition, through the heritage of prayer. "The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by...
Synagogues in a Time of Change
Fragmentation and Diversity in Jewish Religious Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious...