| By: James Carroll
Price: $17.00 $15.99 ISBN: 9780618219087
In this "rare book that combines searing passion . . . with a subject
that has affected all of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), the novelist and
cultural critic James Carroll maps the two-thousand-year course of the
Church's battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has
sparked in... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein
Price: $39.99 $35.99 ISBN: 158330732x
Expanded from the Chief Rabbi of South Africa’s doctoral thesis, Defending the Human Spirit
explores the Torah’s legal system compared to Western law. Using real
court cases to demonstrate the similarities and differences between
Judaism’s view of defending the vulnerable and Western... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Price: $25.99 $23.99 ISBN: 9780688129583
When, if ever, should lying be permitted? If you've damaged a
person's reputation unfairly, can the damage be undone?Is a person who
sells weapons responsible for how those weapons are used?if the fetus
is not a life, what is it? How, as an adult, can one carry out the
command to honor one's... Read More
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| By: Myer S. Lew
Price: $18.95 $13.27 ISBN: 0900689870
In an age of challenge to tradition, this work illuminates the
essential humanity of halacha (Jewish law), which has guided the Jewish
people through the ages. Drawing on classical talmudic, midrashic, and
rabbinic sources, Dayan Lew demonstrates the religious, ethical, and
spiritual... Read More
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Price: $24.95 $17.47 ISBN: 0900689145
An informative guide to the foundations and processes of Jewish Law
In this two-volume set, Rabbi Herzog provides readers a glimpse into the technical as well as philosophical underpinnings of Halacha (Jewish Law). Equally enjoyable by both scholarly readers as well as those without a Talmudic... Read More
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| By: Michael Broyde
Price: $22.00 $15.40 ISBN: 9781933143010
This
issue's featured book is The Pursuit of Justice and Jewish Law:
Halakhic Perspectives on the Legal Profession by Michael J. Broyde, a
newly revised and expanded edition of Broyde's 1996 classic examining
the issues and contrasts between Jewish and secular law. Broyde
fearlessly tackles... Read More
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