Michael Strassfeld

Beautifully designed book. Great layout. Well written with plenty of meaningful detail and scope. Very enjoyable to read.

I like the pictures and the variety of practices it shows. If you are looking for a how-to book, though, this is not for you.

This book povides a good basic introduction to Judaism. If you want to read something more detailed and oriented towards Orthodox Judaism, you should read Donin's book, "To be a Jew".

This book takes as its theme all Jews are responsible for one another. Thus among the subjects it discusses are such issues as: charity giving; social action;saving Soviet Jews;Jewish religious courts;the Jewish poor and elderly; living after the Holocaust; Jews in prison and in the army; living in a small town;kindness to animals and ecology and Israel and Zionism (from the book back)