The Year Mom Got Religion: One Woman's Midlife Journey Into Judaism
Autor Lee Meyerhoff Hendleren Hardback – 14 oct 1998
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1683364597
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Turner
Notă biografică
Lee Meyerhoff Hendler is a popular and inspiring lecturer on leadership, Jewish identity and family philanthropy. She has been invited to speak about her book to many groups and organizations around the country and is the primary writer of "Freedom's Feast: A Thanksgiving Celebration for the American People," available on the web at www.freedomsfeast.us.
Past president of her congregation, Hendler serves on a number of local, national and international Jewish and secular boards, and is involved in her family's philanthropic activities. Apart from Pilates, kayaking and walking very fast, her passions are teaching, travel and Torah study. Lee has four wonderful children, two exceptional daughters-in-law and lives in Baltimore.
Cuprins
Introduction ix
1
Bereshit or Beginnings: Every Story Has to Have One 1
2
Bereshit Again: Or, Sometimes a Story Has Two Beginnings 15
3
How to Enter the Sanctuary the First Time You Don't Have an Excuse 37
4
I Just Wanna Give My Kid a Jewish Identity (But You Gotta Get Your Own First) 55
5
Just Because Mom Goes to Synagogue, We have to Go to Sunday School? 71
6
What I Know Now I Could Put in a Thimble; What I Knew Then I Could Put on the Head of a Pin 87
7
It's Fine For You, but What About the Rest of Us? 105
8
You're Not Putting That
Thing on Our Lawn! 119
9
Spirituality, Schmerituality: Getting There through Deeds 145
Acknowledgments 161
Appendix: Where Do I Start?
A Guide to Beginning a Jewish Home Library 165
Glossary 175
About Jewish Lights Publishing 181