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Sh'ma Reviews

The Sh'ma literary pages include literary essays and reviews of books, films, and other cultural arts. These pages feature an array of talented writers who bring our readers new expressions of Jewish thought, imagination, and spirit.

Birds and Life reviewed by Haim Watzman

Prophecies Unfulfilled reviewed by Sean R. Singer

Women Remaking American Judaism reviewed by Judith Rosenbaum

Changing Families reviewed by Caryn Aviv

Prayers from the Heart reviewed by Elisheva Carlebach

Exploring the Alliance reviewed by Michael Kress

Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exile reviewed by Alicia Ostriker

Transforming Synagogues reviewed by Jack Bloom

Visionary Leadership reviewed by Jen Glaser

The Mighty and the Almighty reviewed by Marc Gopin

God Is Everything, in Drag reviewed by Elie Spitz

New Lives reviewed by Kenneth Moss

Revisiting the Pedagogy and Purpose of Holocaust Education reviewed by Maurice Elias

Assigning New Meaning to Yiddish Culture reviewed by Amelia Glaser

Approaching Jewish Law reviewed by Ken Koltun-Fromm

Healing a Fractured World reviewed by Daniel Septimus

Reading the Bible reviewed by Benjamin D. Sommer

The Young and the Restless: Works by Young writers reviewed by Michal Lemberger

Understanding the Prophets reviewed by Jill Jacobs

Reading a Memoir and Hearing a Prayer reviewed by Diane Cole

Who We Are reviewed by Michal Lemberger Memoir and Family Redemption reviewed by David BialeExegesis and Ritual Cookbook reviewed by Jill Hammer

Artist, Wanderer, Jew reviewed by Matthew Hoffman

A Magisterial Volume reviewed by Neil Gillman

Tolerance reviewed by Marc Gopin

Where Only Prophets Dare to Tread reviewed by Harold M. Schulweis

Midrashic Tales reviewed by Jonathan Kirsch

Out of Poverty reviewed by Daniel Sokatch

Spiritual Guidance and Social Change reviewed by David Arnow

Israel's History of Settlements reviewed by Mitchell B. Hart

An Ever-Revitalizing People? reviewed by Dianne Ashton

Revisioning Jewish Education reviewed by Michael Zeldin

How America Prays reviewed by Sue Fishkoff

Love Your Neighbor and Yourself, Elliot N. Dorff, reviewed by Erica Brown

Knocking on Heaven’s Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture reviewed by Mark Oppenheimer

Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Mourning, Suffering and the Human Condition, Ed. David Schatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky, and Rueven Ziegler

Death, Burial and Afterlife in the Biblical World reviewed by Rachel S. Hallote

The Committed Marriage reviewed by Esther Jungreis HarperSan Francisco

Divorce is a Mitzvah: A Practical Guide to Finding Wholeness and Holiness When Your Marriage Dies reviewed by Rabbi Perry Netter


Speeddating: A Timesaving Guide to Finding Your Lifelong Love reviewed by Yaacov and Sue Deyo Harper

Making a Successful Jewish Interfaith Marriage reviewed by Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky with Joan Peterson Littman

Irreconciliable Differences? The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel
Steven T. Rosenthal

Fighting to Become Americans: Assimilation and the Trouble between Jewish Women and Jewish Men
Riv-Ellen PrellEtz Hayim: Torah and Commentary Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe Derek J. Penslar

The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen

Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettTorah of the Mothers: Contemporary Jewish Women Read Classical Jewish Texts Edited by Ora Wiskind Elper and Susan Handelman And I Will Dwell in Their Midst: Orthodox Jews in Suburbia Etan Diamond Growing Up Religious: Christians and Jews and Their Journey of Faith Robert WuthnowThe Jewish Political Tradition, Volume I, AuthorityMichael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar and Yair Lorberbaum (eds.), A Feminist Ethic of Risk Sharon D. Welch

The Power of Ideas Isaiah Berlin

 

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