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Tradition in a Rootless World
Lynn Davidman
Paperback - $59.95
Recently, some women have turned away from the myriad, complex choices presented by modern life and chosen instead a Jewish Orthodox tradition that defines women's roles primarily in terms of their duties as wives and mothers in nuclear families.
Exclusion and Hierarchy : Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity
Adam S. Ferziger
Hardcover - $119.95
Sliding to the Right : The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy
Samuel C. Heilman
Paperback - $53.95
"Heilman is one of the most productive, interesting, and important sociologists writing about Jewish communities in the world today. This book is a significant snapshot, filled with Heilman's fine-grained observations of particular cultural practices ...
A House Divided : Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry
Jacob Katz
Paperback - $65.95
Eminent social historian Jacob Katz examines the rise and transformation of Jewish communal leadership in Central Europe. It is a story of fragmentation and polarization that sheds light on the tensions within the 19th-century Jewish community in Cen ...
The Essential Writings of Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook
Paperback - $44.95
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hacohen Kook was the first Chief Rabbi of Palestine, and the 20th century's most important Orthodox Jewish mystic.
Climbing Jacob's Ladder : One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition
Alan Morinis
Paperback - $24.95
Jewish by birth, though from a secular family, Alan Morinis took a deep journey into Hinduism and Buddhism as a young man. He received a doctorate for his study of Hindu pilgrimage, learned yoga in India with B. K. S. Iyengar, and attended his first ...
Expanding the Palace of Torah : Orthodoxy and Feminism
Tamar Ross
Paperback - $60.95
Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women's revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, and Orthodox Judaism's response to those challenges. Surprisingly, very little work has been done in this area, be ...