Religion

  • Companion to the High Holydays Prayer Book

    Companion to the High Holydays Prayer Book

    £12.50

    Jakobovits, Ha'rav

    The Companion to the High Holydays Prayerbook provides introductory notes and self-contained essays on a wide range of subjects related to the text of the Machzor, and presents some basic Jewish concepts. The subjects covered are: Rosh Hashanah; the Liturgy; biblical readings for Rosh Hashanah; sermons delivered on the...

  • Divided We Stand

    Divided We Stand

    £40.00

    A Journey with Judge Israel Finestein QC

    Lang, Colin

    The late Israel Finestein was an outstanding lawyer, historian and lay leader of the British Jewish community. This book of essays by his nephew, Colin Lang, in part an evocation, in part a continuation of his teachings, is a fitting tribute...

  • Divine Pathos and Human Being

    Divine Pathos and Human Being

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    The Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel

    Chester, Michael A.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel, a Jewish refugee from Nazism, became a significant theologian and social activist in the USA, though relatively unknown in the UK. The first part of this book contains a brief biography, which puts his work into context, personally, culturally and...

  • Faith Without Fear

    Faith Without Fear

    £18.95

    Unresolved Issues in Modern Orthodoxy

    Harris, Michael

    Faith without Fear examines key unresolved philosophical, theological, and ideological issues in the Modern Orthodox Jewish world, including Modern Orthodoxy and Haredi Orthodoxy as competing heirs to the pre-modern Jewish tradition, the challenge to traditional faith posed by modern biblical scholarship, and Modern Orthodoxy's perspective...

  • Helping With Inquiries

    Helping With Inquiries

    £18.95

    An Autobiography

    Jacobs, Louis

    This autobiography of one of the world's leading Jewish religious thinkers and teachers, and the central participant in the dramatic 'Jacobs affair', begins with his early boyhood in a poor district of Manchester. The story covers his student life at Gateshead and London University, his trips...

  • Hermann Adler

    Hermann Adler

    £40.00

    The King's Chief Rabbi
    Taylor, Derek 
    With a foreword by Lord Jacob Rothschild, OM

    Hermann Adler contributed enormously as Chief Rabbi to the Jewish community in the UK and beyond.
    From the Foreword by Lord Jacob Rothschild, OM

    When Chief Rabbi Adler died in 1911, his friend, Sir Adolph Tuck wrote: ‘The fame of...

  • In the Shadow of the Cross

    In the Shadow of the Cross

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    Jewish-Christian Relations Through the Ages

    Sheleff, Leon

    In the Shadow of the Cross examines the historical and theological relationship between Judaism and Christianity, and puts forward a new theory as to the psychological roots of anti-Semitism. Rather than seeing the Oedipal Complex as the pivotal impulse behind the persecution of the Jews,...

  • Jewish Preaching

    Jewish Preaching

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    Homilies and Sermons

    Jacobs, Louis

    Rabbi Jacobs, with sixty years' experience of pulpit work to his credit, provides a number of homilies for each weekly portion of the modern sermon and for the chapters of Ethics of the Fathers. The text for the modern sermon is usually the sidra, the weekly portion,...

  • Journey to a Temple in Time

    Journey to a Temple in Time

    £19.95

    A Philosopher's Quest for the Sabbath
    Pashman, Susan

    Susan Pashman's Journey to a Temple in Time is not only a moving and powerful chronicle of her own search for the contemporary relevance of the Sabbath.  It is also a urgently needed road-map to expand our understanding and to deepen our spiritual...

  • Journey to a Temple in Time

    Journey to a Temple in Time

    £50.00

    A Philosopher's Quest for the Sabbath
    Pashman, Susan

    Susan Pashman's Journey to a Temple in Time is not only a moving and powerful chronicle of her own search for the contemporary relevance of the Sabbath.  It is also a urgently needed road-map to expand our understanding and to deepen our spiritual...