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The Jewish Law Annual - Vol. 14

Book by The Institute Of Jewish Law; Routledge, 2003

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Jewish Law--Periodicals

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...clear if this stringency should apply to a Jewish physician. 30 b Abortion Prior to 40...appears in Bleich, Fetal tissue research: Jewish tradition and public policy, Tradition...the life of the mother, whether she is Jewish or non-Jewish. Paradoxically, however...
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JPS: The Americanization of Jewish Culture, 1888-1988

Book by Jonathan D. Sarana; Jewish Publication Society, 1989

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Jewish Publication Society--History, Jewish Publishing--United States--History, Jews--United States--Intellectual Life

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...JPS, 277 , 290 -291 Jeshurun, George Gershon , 85 The Jew in the Literature of England , 199 Jewish Advance , 14 A Jewish Bestiary , 281 Jewish Book Council, 198 Jewish Book Week, 181 , 198 The Jewish Catalog , 270 , 281 -285 Jewish Ceremonial...
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Succeeding at Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made it Work

Book by Joseph Reimer; Jewish Publication Society, 1997

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Jewish Religious Education--United States, Jewish Religious Schools--United States, Reform Judaism--United States

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life New York: Schocken Books, 1967...For a cross-cultural perspective on Jewish education, see H. S. Himmelfarb and S. DellaPergola, eds., Jewish Education Worldwide: Cross-Cultural...
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History and Jewish Historians: Essays and Addresses

Book by Salo W. Baron, Arthur Hertzberg, Leon A. Feldman; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1964

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Jewish Historians, Jews--History--Historiography

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

on, 119 f., 356 ; and Jewish immigration, 59 ; Jost on, 247f., 443...233 Parnasim , role of, 55 Parochialism, in Jewish historiography, 93 f. Parthia, 12 , 27 , 28 Partisans, Jewish, 96 Parvaim, as "Peru," de Rossi on...
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Adoption and the Jewish Family: Contemporary Perspectives

Book by Shelley Kapnek Rosenberg; Jewish Publication Society, 1998

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Adoption (Jewish Law), Adoption--Religious Aspects--Judaism, Adoption--United States--Psychological Aspects, Jewish Families--United States

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Was I Born Jewish? A child is Jewish, according to traditional halakhah , if the childs birth mother is Jewish. Reform and Reconstructionist Jews also recognize patrilineal descent, that is, that the child of a Jewish father, who is raised...

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Journal Articles on: jewish

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Deaf American Jewish Culture in Historical Perspective

Journal article by Sarah Abrevaya Stein; American Jewish History, Vol. 95, 2009

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American Jewish Historical Society--Training, Cahn, Sammy, Center for Jewish History--Training, Deaf persons--Training, Deaf--Training, Maxwell, William Henry

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Deaf American Jewish Culture in Historical Perspective. by...in Fanwood, which fostered ties with Jewish clubs, and the National Fraternal Society...2) For these individuals, the larger Jewish and deaf communities had failed to address...
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Tongue Ties: The Emergence of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora in the Mid-Nineteenth Century *

Journal article by Adam Mendelsohn; American Jewish History, Vol. 93, 2007

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Damascus Affair, 1840, Gratz, Rebecca--History, Jewish diaspora--History, Jewish history--19th century AD, Jews--19th century AD, Jews--History, Leeser, Isaac--History

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...Ties: The Emergence of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora in the Mid-Nineteenth Century...was certainly no center of Australian Jewish life: the community mushroomed from 11...Harriet, struggled to obey the dictates of Jewish law in this unpromising frontier environment...
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Reuben Cohen Comes of Age: American Jewish Youth and the Lived Experience of Cultural Pluralism in the 1920s

Journal article by Daniel Greene; American Jewish History, Vol. 95, 2009

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American Jews, Cohen, Reuben--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Immigrants, Jewish identity, Jews, American, Jews--Identity, Multiculturalism--History, Teenagers, Youth

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Reuben Cohen Comes of Age: American Jewish Youth and the Lived Experience of Cultural...Reuben was part of the first generation of Jewish students in the United States to attend...collegians as he was of the children of Jewish immigrants, those who found ways to integrate...
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Louis Marshall and the Democratization of Jewish Identity

Journal article by Matthew Silver; American Jewish History, Vol. 94, 2008

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Adler, Cyrus, Ford, Henry, Jewish schools--Forecasts and trends, New York. Legislature. Assembly

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Louis Marshall and the Democratization of Jewish Identity. by Matthew Silver Louis Marshall is a luminous figure in American Jewish history. The list of Jewish leadership posts he held at various phases of his career, including...
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"Resistance and War": The Holocaust in American Jewish Education, 1945-1960

Journal article by Rona Sheramy; American Jewish History, Vol. 91, 2003

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American Jews--Education, Holocaust, 1933-1945--Study and teaching, Jewish religious education--History, Jews, American--Education

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...and War": The Holocaust in American Jewish Education, 1945-1960. by Rona Sheramy...in 1952 and used widely in American Jewish schools throughout the early postwar period, Reuben Davis recounted the Jewish experience under Nazism in a story...

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Magazine Articles on: jewish

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Profiles of Acculturation: Jewish Communities in 19th-Century Germany

Magazine article by Keith H. Pickus; Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Vol. 55, Summer-Fall 2006

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Acculturation--Evaluation, Assimilation (Sociology)--Evaluation, Germany--Religious aspects, Germany--Social aspects, Jewish organizations--History, Jewish organizations--Social aspects

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Profiles of Acculturation: Jewish Communities in 19th-Century Germany...a reply about contacting the local Jewish community once I settled in. Apparently...that I had a church home, albeit a Jewish one, my neighbor returned to his yard...
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Krieger V. Mittelman and Jewish Perceptions of the Refugee in the Early Cold War

Magazine article by Joel Silverman; Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Vol. 55, Summer-Fall 2006

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Jewish refugees--Research, Krieger, Benjamin--Cases, Libel and slander--Cases, Mittelman, Majer--Cases, Refugees, Jewish--Research

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Krieger V. Mittelman and Jewish Perceptions of the Refugee in the Early...and was a religious functionary for a Jewish congregation in Olyphant, Penn. His...articles, officials at the American Jewish Congress quickly recognized the demons...
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The Passover Haggadah: Moses and the Human Role in Redemption

Magazine article by David Arnow; Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Vol. 55, Fall-Winter 2006

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Haggadah (Sacred work), Jewish Publication Society, Purim, Septuagint (Sacred work)

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...biblical passages such as these spawned Jewish theologies and literature that told the...Samaritans, Gnostics and especially Jewish-Christians and, subsequently, gentile...John is actually modeled on preexisting Jewish beliefs about Moses. (53) Likewise...
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From Jewish Street to Public Square

Magazine article by Alan Mittleman; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2002

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Conservative Judaism--Laws, regulations, etc., Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects, Jews, American--Emigration and immigration, Sabbath (Jewish law)--Social aspects, United States--Emigration and immigration

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From Jewish street to public square. by Alan Mittleman In 1950, during the great surge of Jewish migration to the newer suburbs, the rabbis...Conservative rabbis, broke with historic Jewish tradition. In ancient times, the Talmud...
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What Makes a Jewish Home Jewish?

Magazine article by Vanessa L. Ochs; Cross Currents, Vol. 49, Winter 1999

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Jewish way of life--Social aspects, Jews--Social aspects, Judaism--Customs and practices, Material culture--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

What Makes a Jewish Home Jewish? by Vanessa L. Ochs Stuff in a Jewish home is more than just stuff: its Jewish stuff. An elderly Jewish informant in Barbara Myerhoffs book, Number Our Days, tells a story which he attributes to Martin Buber...

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Newspaper Articles on: jewish

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Fox Valley Jewish School Is Offering New Curriculum

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 7, 2011

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Curriculum, Education--Curricula, Jewish schools

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Fox Valley Jewish School Is Offering New Curriculum. Byline: Submitted by Fox Valley Jewish School Fox Valley Jewish School in Geneva is taking a new approach. "This is not your parents Sunday school," says Tammie Weinberger of Fox Valley...
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Top Jewish School Breached Race Relations Law When It Refused Boy

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 25, 2009

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Jewish schools, Race relations

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Top Jewish School Breached Race Relations Law When...Tim Ross Education Correspondent A TOP Jewish school broke the Race Relations Act by...referred to as M. The boys father is Jewish by birth, but his mother is Jewish by...
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School Broke Law by Refusing Boy Whose Mother Was Not Born Jewish

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 25, 2009

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Jewish schools

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...by Refusing Boy Whose Mother Was Not Born Jewish. Byline: Tim Ross Education Correspondent A TOP Jewish school broke the Race Relations Act by refusing...referred to as M. The boys father is Jewish by birth, but his mother is Jewish by conversion...
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Village Set to Open Its First Jewish Day School

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 15, 2009

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Jewish schools

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Village Set to Open Its First Jewish Day School. Byline: Steve Zalusky szalusky@dailyherald.com With its synagogues, kosher bakery, Jewish bookstore and Jewish Community Center and adult education center, Buffalo Grove...
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Election Outcome Won't Alter Feelings of Jewish Americans: Regardless of Premier, Support for Israel Will Survive

Newspaper article by Ben Barber; The Washington Times, May 30, 1996

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American Jewish Congress, Israel

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Election outcome wont alter feelings of Jewish Americans: Regardless of premier, support...wins the election, leaders of American Jewish organizations said yesterday. They said...politics be a litmus test of loyalty to the Jewish state. "The American Jewish community...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jewish

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Jewish Autonomous Region

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JEWISH AUTONOMOUS REGION or Birobidzhan berobejan...status of an autonomous region in 1934. The Jewish population peaked in 1948 at about 30...influences including a Yiddish newspaper Jewish cultural activity in the region has declined...
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Jewish Liturgical Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JEWISH LITURGICAL MUSIC the music used in the religious...into the synagogue. Later the Ashkenazim (Jewish communities that had their original European...eliminated, the organ was employed, and Jewish hymns were written in the vernacular and...
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Maccabees , Jewish Family

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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MACCABEES , Jewish family or Machabees both: mak bez, Jewish family of the 2d and 1st cent. b.c. that brought about a restoration of Jewish political and religious life. They are also called Hasmoneans or Asmoneans after their ancestor...
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Liturgy, Jewish

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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LITURGY, JEWISH rites, observances, and procedures of...such as hymns, vary with the different Jewish communities. The daily order of service...prayerbook is called the mahzor. The Jewish liturgy is traditionally in Hebrew, with...
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Hillel , Jewish Scholar

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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HILLEL , Jewish scholar fl. c.30 b.c. a.d. 10, Jewish scholar, regarded as the forebear of the later patriarchs who led the Jews of Palestine until c.a.d. 400. The Jerusalem Talmud calls him the president of the Sanhedrin. He and...

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