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In this article we intend undertake a reading of ancient judaism, or veterotestamentary, in some of its main aspects, in contrast to the Machiavellian view of the role of religion in the organization and expansion of the State. The first step of this enterprise will be given by exposing the founding and delineanting features of the ancient Jewish tradition, especially in the books that make up the so-called Old Testament, demonstranting the using of religion in the ordination and expansion of the State, as well as in the formation of the individual. In a second moment we will demonstrate how to create a new Jewish tradition, influenced and influential on the ancient Greek world, early in the Christian era which will be assimilated and explored in its mystical bias in Renaissance humanism. This Hellenistic Judaism tradition will be best known and assimilated in the European erudite circles of the Renaissance. Finally, we will try to demonstrate how the constitutive features of ancient Judaism, to the detriment of Hellenistic Judaism, can be read in the light of Machiavellian description of the role of religion in the organization and expansion of the State and the formation of the individual.

Sexual identity and psychoanalysis in traditional Judaism -- Preface: moving the conversation along by / Jack Drescher, MD -- Does God make referrals : Orthodox Judaism and homosexuality / Alan Slomowitz, Ph.D. and Alison Feit, Ph.D -- Collateral damage : clinical and theoretical material of the unrecognized psychic and social damage caused by not recognizing and accepting LGBTQ members into the full context of the Orthodox community / Mark Blechner, Ph.D -- Discussion of "does god make referrals : Orthodox Judaism and homosexuality" / Ronnie Lesser, Ph.D -- Response to does god make referrals and Drs. Blechner and Lesser papers / Rabbi Mark Dratch, LMSW -- Pastoral counselling and LGBTQ Orthodox Jews / Michelle Friedman, MD -- Gay Jewish men in the Orthodox Jewish community : striving for selfhood / Jeremy Novich, Ph.D -- The parents are our future / Miryam Kabakov, LMSW -- Envisioning an orthodox gay wedding / Rabbi Steven Greenberg -- Women known for these acts / Elaine Chapnik, JD -- Gender identity and psychoanalysis in traditional Judaism -- Fausto-sterling : the dynamic development of gender variability / Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph.D -- Transgender experiences and issues in Orthodox Jewish community : summary of findings / Oriol Poveda, Ph.D -- Genocide, transsexuality, the limits of coherence, and the radiance of the universe / Ben Baader, Ph.D -- Border crossings : commentary on Ben Baader's paper / Seth Aronson, Psy.D -- Knowing the soul of the stranger / Joy Ladin, Ph.D -- Rabbinic and halachic discourse on sex change surgery and gender definition / Hillel Gray, Ph.D -- Orthodox Judaism and its transgender members / Rabbi Hayim Shaffner, LCSW.

Frontmatter --TABLE OF CONTENTS --Preface --Abbreviations --Introduction --Chapter 1. Jews, Christians and Persecutions in Fourth-Century Persia --Chapter 2. Chosenness: The Election of Israel --Chapter 3. Marriage and Celibacy in Jewish and Christian Tradition --Chapter 4. Ritual: Passover and Circumcision --Conclusion --Appendix: Post Second Temple Passover Sacrifices? --Bibliography

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Chapter 1: Editorial Introduction The Study of Religion in Israeli Social Science -- 2 Chapter 2: Sociological Analyses of Religion -- 3 Chapter 3: Dimensions of Jewish Religiosity -- Part II: Political Dimensions of Israeli Judaism -- 4 Chapter 4: Jewish Civilization: Approaches to Problems of Israeli Society -- 5 Chapter 5: State Ceremonies of Israel: Remembrance Day and Independence Day -- 6 Chapter 6: Religious Adherence and Political Attitudes -- 7 Chapter 7: Religion in the Israeli Discourse on the Arab-Jewish Conflict -- 8 Life Tradition and Book Tradition in the Development of Ultraorthodox Judaism -- 9 Ultraorthodox Jewish Women -- Part IV: Nationalist Orthodoxy -- 10 Religious Kibbutzim: Judaism and Modernization -- 11 A Mystic-Messianic Interpretation of Modem Israeli History: The Six-Day War in the Religious Culture of Gush Emunim -- Part V: The Sephardic Pattern -- 12 The Religiosity of Middle Eastern Jews -- 13 Secularization and the Diminishing Decline of Religion -- 14 Saints' Sanctuaries in Development Towns -- 15 The Religion of Elderly Oriental Jewish Women -- Part VI: Secularism and Reform -- 16 Hanukkah and the Myth of the Maccabees in Ideology and in Society -- 17 Death Customs in a Non-Religious Kibbutz -- 18 Americans in the Israeli Reform and Conservative Denominations -- 19 Religion and Democracy in Israel -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Authors

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Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published-or even read-to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls' adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education.Klapper explores the dual roles girls played as agents of acculturation and guardians of tradition. Their search for an identity as American girls that would not require the abandonment of Jewish tradition and culture mirrored the struggle of their families and communities for integration into American society.While focusing on their lives as girls, not the adults they would later become, Klapper draws on the papers of such figures as Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah; Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Showboat; and Marie Syrkin, literary critic and Zionist. Klapper also analyzes the diaries, memoirs, and letters of hundreds of other girls whose later lives and experiences have been lost to history.Told in an engaging style and filled with colorful "es, the book brings to life a neglected group of fascinating historical figures during a pivotal moment in the development of gender roles, adolescence, and the modern American Jewish community