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How to Be a Host, How to Be a Guest
Jewish ethical literature provides practical, down-to-earth guidelines on how to behave towards one's guests and towards one's hosts.
What’s Wrong with Adultery?
The problem with marital infidelity is the loss of the relaxed intimacy that lets us be ourselves.
I and Thou: Selected Passages
When a person encounters another person in total immediacy, he or she may also experience a glimpse of God.
Halakhah in Conservative Judaism
"Tradition and change" is the Conservative movement's motto, balancing adherence to Jewish law with a willingness to introduce major innovations.
The Body: Themes & Theology
Themes and Theology of the Jewish Body. The Jewish Body. Jewish Body Traditions.
Biblical and Rabbinic Attitudes Toward Non-Jews
Early Jewish texts affirmed the universal fraternity of humankind, while asserting the importance of Jewish distinctiveness.
Court Jews
Court Jews were purveyors who provided food, fodder, and munitions to the European courts in return for special privileges.
Ancient Jewish Thought
Ancient Jewish Thought. Ancient Jewish History. Jewish History and Community.