Sharon Strassfeld

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)

Collection of essays about justice, community, routes, dispersion

NO OF PAGES: 319 SUB CAT I: Jewish Life SUB CAT II: SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: A catalog of Jewish life much along the line of the Whole Earth catalog published during the late 1960's as a response to a lowering of the morals of the society. Expect some light-hearted stuff as well as some eastern mysticism in this compilation.NOTES: SUBTITLE: A Do-It-Yourself Kit