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The contemporary phenomenon of people's attraction to Judaism around the world is remarkable. Additionally, millions of people who are not of Jewish descent are increasingly identifying themselves as Jews or are converting. In this volume, scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines explore multiple sources and meanings of this new shaping of modern Jewish identities in Africa, the United States, and India.

This book gathers scholars from the three major monotheistic religions to discuss the issue of poverty and wealth from the varied perspectives of each tradition. It provides a cadre of values inherent to the sacred texts of Jews, Christians, and Muslims and illustrates how these values may be used to deal with current economic inequalities. Contributors use the methodologies of religious studies to provide descriptions and comparisons the perspectives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on poverty and wealth. The book provides citations from the sacred texts of all three religions along their interpretations, contexts, and elaboration for deciphering their stances. Poverty and Wealth in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam identifies and details a foundation of common values upon which individual and institutional decisions may be made.

"How did American Jewish men experience manhood, and how did they present their masculinity to others? In this distinctive book, Sarah Imhoff shows that the project of shaping American Jewish manhood was not just one of assimilation or exclusion. Jewish manhood was neither a mirror of normative American manhood nor its negative, effeminate opposite. Imhoff demonstrates how early twentieth-century Jews constructed a gentler, less aggressive manhood, drawn partly from the American pioneer spirit and immigration experience, but also from Hollywood and the YMCA, which required intense cultivation of a muscled male physique. She contends that these models helped Jews articulate the value of an acculturated American Judaism. Tapping into a rich historical literature to reveal how Jews looked at masculinity differently than Protestants of other religious groups, Imhoff illuminates the particular experience of American Jewish men"--

Drawing on several archives, magazine articles, and nearly-forgotten bestsellers, Rachel Gordan examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Holocaust American Jewish identity. Positive depictions of Jews in popular literature had a normalizing effect, while at the same time forging the notion of Judaism as an American religion distinct from Christianity but part of America's alleged 'Judeo-Christian' heritage.

A Muslim in "atypical Christian" clothing -- The quest for Abraham : commonalities and contrasts among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The Qur'an, Ahadith, and Judaeo-Christian scriptures : finding common ground -- From Jesus to Muhammad : early Christianity and Islam -- Islam, the "people of the book," and religious pluralism - Islamophobia in the Christian West -- Original sin and the role of women : comparing the Abrahamic faiths -- Reconciliation and the children of Abraham

Mémoire de la Shoah, lutte contre l'antisémitisme, rappel du lien spirituel entre christianisme et judaïsme… Jean-Paul II, profondément marqué, dans son enfance polonaise, par les atrocités de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, a fait de son pontificat celui de la réconciliation des chrétiens et des juifs. Premier pape à reconnaître l'État d'Israël et à entrer dans une synagogue en 1986, il n'a cessé, dans ses déclarations, de promouvoir la fraternité entre les fils d'Abraham. Des adresses amicales aux discours officiels, des homélies aux prières, des lettres personnelles aux exhortations apostoliques, c'est toute sa richesse spirituelle, humaine, théologique et politique qui ressort de ce message constant de paix et d'amour à destination de ceux qu'il considère comme des « frères aînés ». Un compendium unique et essentiel, éclairé par une préface lumineuse du pape François, pour comprendre les enjeux actuels du dialogue judéo-chrétien

While Israeli Jews would appear to be divided into a secular and a religious sector, a more appropriate division would be into three population groups. First is the majority of religiously observant Jews, who subscribe to a religiopolitical culture and who represent roughly 20 percent of the population. Second, there is a radical secular public, representing about 10 percent of the Jewish population, who define themselves as totally nonobservant religiously and who favor not only separation of religion and state but the dejudaization of the state. They are sometimes referred to as post-Zionists. Finally, there is the vast majority of the Jewish population, who are somewhat observant of religious custom and who continue to favor a Zionist—that is, a Jewish—state. This segment of the population lacks political and cultural leadership; it is subdivided into distinct ethnic and political segments; and it appears far weaker than it is in practice.

THE 1982 WAR IN THE LEBANON AND ITS BLOODY AFTERMATH were not accidents of history. They resulted from the takeover of the Israel government and the world Zionist movement by Menachem Begin's Revisionists. This group of Zionist extremists (Dr Chaim Weizmann's description) had been derided and excluded from power for over 50 years. In 1977, they won their first Israeli general election and set about realizing their radical programme.This article will discuss the roots of Begin's War and the challenge of the Begin revolution to world Jewry. First, it will review some of the available evidence about the fighting and the extent of civilian casualties. This review will throw light on Mr Begin's motives for launching 'Operation Peace for Galilee'.