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True Stories of the Philosophical Theater
An eighteen year old chameleon abandons academic philosophy and a small town for New York City in 1981, and for two years is immersed in bohemian life while working in a bar on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Moving on to other jobs and peculiar relationships, his mind becomes perceptually clogged, and so he haphazardly pursues madness in an attempt to experience life “Apparelled in celestial light” once again. The experiment is a destructive success, and he’s tossed through several historical calamities while quickly learning the mad breakthrough was only a beginning. Embracing world philosophy and religion, he travels alone to India for six months, but it ends up a sixteen...
True Stories of the Philosophical Theater
An eighteen year old chameleon leaves philosophy and a small town for New York City in 1981 and finds himself for two years immersed in bohemian life at work in a bar on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. The story continues through colorful relationships and jobs and an unusual marriage, as the young man deliberately pushes himself towards madness in order to experience life once again "Apparell´d in celestial light". The experiment proves to be a destructive success and he is tossed about through several historical calamities while learning fast that the mad breakthrough was just a beginning. Embracing world philosophy again, he travels alone to India for a six month visit, but it ends up a sixteen year journey, the latter thirteen years with no exit from Asia, exiled on a continuous migratory path filled with conflict, love, humor, and a passion for wisdom and goodness and true identity. The nonfiction story closes at the beginning of 2009, a year after the return (but not alone) of the seasoned protagonist to America. Visit:sphyerucham.wordpress.com for more information.
Utopia in Zion
Although less famous than Israel's cooperative agricultural settlements, the kibbutzim and moshavim, Israeli urban worker cooperatives have an equally long and rich history. Well over a thousand such organizations have been established in what is now Israel since early in this century. This book provides a historical, social, and economic analysis of contemporary urban worker cooperatives, focusing on processes affecting their formation and dissolution, their use of nonmember labor, and the evolution of their democratic decision-making practices over time. Raymond Russell examines these cooperatives for the light they can shed on worker ownerships and worker cooperatives in general, and on Israeli society in particular. Applying a range of sociological and economic theories to examine the dynamics of these organizations over time, he finds that both their formation and their later development have been strongly influenced by the uniquely utopian social and economic conditions that prevailed in Jewish Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century.
Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary. In recent decades, as more Jews have adopted plant-based lifestyles, Jewish vegan and vegetarian movements have become increasingly prominent. This book explores the intellectual, religious, and historical roots of veganism and vegetarianism among Jews and presents compelling new directions in Jewish thought, ethics, and foodways. The contributors, including scholars, rabbis, and activists, explore how Judaism has inspired Jews to eschew animal products and how such choices, even when not directly inspired by Judaism, have enriched and helped define Jewishnes...
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin, father of Israel's right wing and sixth prime minister of the nation, was known for his unflinchingly hawkish ideology. And yet, in 1979 he signed a groundbreaking peace treaty with Egypt for which he and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat received the Nobel Prize for Peace. Such a contradiction was typical in Begin's life: no other Israeli played as many different, sometimes conflicting, roles as Begin, and no other figure inspired such sharply opposing responses. Begin was belittled and beloved, revered and despised, and his career was punctuated by exhilarating highs on the one hand, despair and ostracism on the other./divDIV DIVThis riveting biography is the first to provide ...
The New Jewish American Literary Studies
Introduces readers to the new perspectives, approaches and interpretive possibilities in Jewish American literature that emerged in the twenty-first Century.
Jewish Perspectives on Theology and the Human Experience of Disability
A re-examination of Jewish scripture and teachings about disabilities Few people are untouched by the issue of disability, whether personally or through a friend or relative. Jewish Perspectives on Theology and the Human Experience of Disability shares moving insights from around the world and across the broad spectrum of Judaism on how and why the Jewish community is incomplete without the presence and participation of the disabled. Authors representing each of the three main movements of Judaism—Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform—examine theology, scripture, ethics, practical theology, religious education, and personal experience to understand and apply the lessons and wisdom of the pa...
