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What is a Jew

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Simon and Schuster, Nov 1, 1996 - Religion - 336 pages
Discusses the basic tenets of Judaism; religious law and ritual; modern Israel; Jews and Christians; the social and community concerns of Jews; and Jewish customs, traditions, feasts, and fasts
  

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Contents

Do Jews Always Name a Child after a Deceased
4
Who Speaks with Authority for the Jews?
28
What Is the Relationship between the Jewish Community and the Larger Community in which ews Live?
30
A Life of Torah 1 What Is Torah?
39
What Is the Jewish Bible?
41
3 Do Jews Believe Literally in the Bible?
44
4 Do Jews Still Follow All the Biblical Laws Even the Harsh Ones Like An Eye for an Eye?
46
5 What Is the Talmud?
47
Festivals and Fasts
197
Why Does the Jewish Day Begin at Sunset?
205
Why Do Jewish Holidays Fall on Different Days Each Year?
206
Why Do Jews Fast on Certain Days?
208
What Is Shabbat?
209
Why Do Some Jews Keep Only One Day of a Holy Day While Others Keep Two?
213
What Are the High Holy Days?
214
What Is Sukkot?
219

What Is Midrash?
50
7 Is There a Single Book of Jewish Law?
52
What Is Halachah?
53
9 How Do Jews Read the Bible?
56
What Is Kabbalah?
57
Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Music?
60
Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Art?
61
The Warmth of Tradition
63
What Is a Mitzvah?
71
How Do Jews Decide What Rules to Keep?
72
Are Some Jewish Customs Just Superstition?
74
What Are Rabbis and What Do They Do?
76
What Is a Cantor a Chazzan?
79
Is There a Priesthood in Judaism?
81
What Are the Most Important Prayers that Jews Recite?
83
What Is a Minyan? Are Some Prayers Said Only if Ten or More People Are Present?
86
What Is Keeping Kosher?
87
What Special Clothes Do Jews Wear?
90
What in General Do Jews Believe?
107
Do Jews Believe that Judaism Is the Only True
113
Do Jews Believe Literally in Satan?
120
What Is the Basis for Jewish Moral Decision
135
Do Jews Favor Capital Punishment?
141
Why Do Some Jews Maintain Jewish Homes but Rarely
167
What Is the Difference between a Synagogue a Shul
173
Why Is Israel Sacred for Jews?
179
What Is an Israeli Kibbutz?
185
How Is Israel Governed?
187
Is an American Jews First Loyalty to Israel or to America?
189
Can American Jews Disagree with Israels Policies?
191
Why Is Jerusalem So Important to the Jewish People?
192
Why Do Jews Say Next Year in Jerusalem?
194
What Is Simchat Torah?
221
What Are Chanukah and Purim?
222
What Is Passover?
225
n What Is Shavuot?
227
What Are the Rest of the Feasts and Fasts that Mark the Jewish Calendar?
228
Are There Modem Holidays in Judaism?
229
The Shape of a Jewish Life
231
Is Having Children Valued in Judaism?
239
Why Do Jews Practice Circumcision? What Parallel Ceremony Is Used for Baby Girls?
240
How Is a Baby Named in Jewish Families?
243
Relative?
244
What Is Pidyon Haben?
245
What Are Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah?
246
Do Jews Have Confirmation Services?
249
How Do Jews Get Married?
250
Do Rabbis Perform Weddings When a Jew Marries a NonJew?
254
What Is the Jewish Attitude toward Divorce?
255
How Are People Buried in Judaism?
257
What Mourning Customs Do Jews Follow?
258
Do Jews Have a Confession Deathbed or Otherwise?
260
How Can Friends Appropriately Extend Comfort to a Jewish Family in Mourning?
262
How Do People Choose to Become Jewish?
263
The Double Helix of Western History
267
What Do Jews Believe about Jesus?
275
Do Christianity and Judaism Agree on Anything? On What Points Do They Differ?
277
Does Judaism Accept Converts?
280
If Christians Can Pray in Synagogues Why Cant Jews Pray in Churches?
281
Can Jews Celebrate Christmas?
284
Glossary
287
Index
301
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