In this illuminating study Rabbi Cohn-Sherbok traces the fascinating story of the finding, losing and finding again of the Promised Land.

For nearly four millennia Judaism was essentially a unified religious system based on shared traditions. Despite the emergence of various sub-groups through the centuries such as the Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Karaites, Shabbateans and Hasadim, Jewry was united in the belief in a providential God who had chosen the Jews as his special people and given them a code of law. In the modern period, however, the Jewish religion has fragmented into a series of separate denominations with competing ideologies and theological views. Despite the creation of the State of Israel, the Jewish people are deeply divided concerning the most fundamental issues of belief and practice. Judaism Today gives an account of the nature of traditional Judaism, provides an introduction to the various divisions that currently exist in the Jewish world and identifies and discusses contemporary issues with which the Jewish faith engages in the twenty-first century. This refreshing new approach focuses on how Judaism is actually perceived and practised by Jews themselves and the problems currently facing Jews worldwide.

What is the role of scripture in illuminating the lives of the faithful today? In this book, three experts in Judaism, Christianity and Islam respectively discuss and debate this question, by exploring the core messages of the Torah, Bible and Qu'ran. Taking a deeper look at the wide range of theological, political and social issues that divide (and sometimes unite) their religions, they reveal ho[Bokinfo]

Giving a thorough account of the Palestine-Israeli conflict past, present and future, this text is jointly authored by an American rabbi and Professor of Judaism, and a Palestinian lecturer on Islam. The result is a real insight into the bitter truths at the heart of this situation.

Recounts how the author was converted from confirmed childlessness to blissful fatherhood, details his anxious, obsessive involvement in every phase of childbearing, and examines how the experience affected his relationship with his wife

A generous North Pole teenager named Santa Claus discovers his calling in life when he borrows his father's sleigh to deliver presents to good children on Christmas Eve.

At many points in Dan Millman's seminal story of personal transformation, the old warrior Socrates shrugs off Dan's questions with a laconic "It's the House Rules." Here, Millman takes more than 100 of the book's most interesting and enigmatic passages and explores in detail the key ideas behind them, showing their genesis in spiritual philosophies old and new. Drawing on 25 years of experience since first writing the book, he reveals an evolving sensibility and perspective, he drawing practical lessons that readers can apply directly to their lives from even the most mysterious passages. Millman gives readers fresh insight and wisdom by clarifying seemingly paradoxical statements and applying essential teachings to life's toughest questions. Whether readers are coming to Way of the Peaceful Warrior for the first time or belong to its legions of long-time fans, The Peaceful Warrior Companion deepens their experience of this beloved spiritual classic.

A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, as well as assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and its influence on modern music. 20,000 first printing.

This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.

It is commonly believed that Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), well known as the founder of phenomenology and as the teacher of Heidegger, was unable to free himself from the framework of a classical metaphysics of subjectivity. Supposedly, he never abandoned the view that the world and the Other are constituted by a pure transcendental subject, and his thinking in consequence remains Cartesian, idealistic, and solipsistic. The continuing publication of Husserl's manuscripts has made it necessary to revise such an interpretation. Drawing upon both Husserl's published works and posthumous material, Husserl's Phenomenology incorporates the results of the most recent Husserl research. It is divided into three parts, roughly following the chronological development of Husserl's thought, from his early analyses of logic and intentionality, through his mature transcendental-philosophical analyses of reduction and constitution, to his late analyses of intersubjectivity and lifeworld. It can consequently serve as a concise and updated introduction to his thinking.

The relationship of self, and self-awareness, and experience: exploring classical phenomenological analyses and their relevance to contemporary discussions in consciousness research.

A hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping (and sometimes failing) to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the terrible decisions she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, CHOOSE YOUR OWN DISASTER is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of "you can be anything you want!" is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she's a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best.--Amazon.com.

Organizing his work thematically to explore important ideas and trends that have influenced the social sciences since World War II, Daniel Bell charts the rise and fall of major developments in the field and presents a comprehensive survey of the progress of the social sciences over this thirty-five year period. Bell discusses such major advances as the emergence of sotiobiology as an effort to unify social behavior through genetically-based parameters, structuralism, the multiplicity of new paradigms in macroeconomics, and schools of neo-Marxism. Parts I and II of The Social Sciences Since the Second World War originally appeared as yearly installments in the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Great Ideas Today series and are combined for the first time in book form. Dr. Bell has added an introductory essay that reviews the time frame and details his rationale for focusing on specific disciplines. His emphasis throughout is on those synoptic efforts geared at providing a systematic body of theory that set forth some coherent statement about human behavior or social structure. The book concludes with a discussion of the viability of formulating a unified viewof knowledge through the unity of science.

A study of texts and issues within the Pauline corpus (Galatians, Romans), especially on gender and ethnicity. Contends that Paul's discourse was an inner-discourse of Jewish culture, involving commitment to universal humanity and to Jewish difference. Although his arguments were not anti-Judaic, difference was seen as a threat. States that if Paul is not the origin of antisemitism, he is the origin of the "Jewish question". His texts have served as major supports for theological anti-Judaism. Proposes an alternative reading of Paul as a striver for human liberation and equality. Regarding antisemitism, see ch. 6 (pp. 136-157), "Was Paul an 'Anti-Semite'?", and ch. 9 (pp. 201-227), "Paul, the 'Jewish Problem', and the 'Woman Question'". Ch. 9 discusses allegorization of "the Jew" as a trope for human evil, especially in works by neo-Lutherans (e.g. E. Käsemann, R.G. Hamerton-Kelly) following the antisemitic Lutheran tradition, and as a trope for "the Other" (e.g. J.-F. Lyotard, J.-L. Nancy).

An innovative attempt to read Plato with the Talmud, and the Talmud with Plato, this book examines Platonic and Talmudic dialogues to show that in a sense they are not dialogic at all, but a monological discursive form yoked incongruously with a comic mode.

In a society that punishes us for the expression of our emotion and rewards us for role-playing and lack of conviction, millions of Americans have found it dangerous to acknowledge their true feelings. The result has been a vast emotional turn-off that leaves many people totally unaware that deep feelings of anger, fear, and pain exist in them at all. A Scream Away From Happiness is about a kind of "scream therapy" that goes rapidly beyond the symptoms of disorder to the feelings, attitudes, and behavior of today's emotionally frozen man. In scream therapy, people can touch and embrace and confront one another honestly - something they cannot do in most instances in our culture. A Scream Away From Happiness presents the groups, the marathons, and the people that make them. It discusses what is wrong with Americans today and why traditional analysis often fails. It is, finally, a plea for greater honesty to the self and to others.