Imagine... Exploring Israel

Imagine... Exploring Israel
Author: Marji Gold-Vukson
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing
Total Pages: 54
Release: 1993-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780929371641

Dozens of creative drawing adventures introduce Israel to young children. Ages 5-7

Israel for Families

Israel for Families
Author: The Team at Real Family Trips
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2015-07-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996522816

The search for the perfect family guide book is over! "Israel for Families: An Adventure in 12 Days" is the innovative and exciting debut travel book from the team at RealFamilyTrips.com This comprehensive guide presents a pre-planned, 12 day vacation in Israel, appropriate for all ages and encompassing different regions of Israel, as well as a variety of activity types for every family. Take the guess work out of planning the perfect vacation with all the details taken care of, from where to go and what to see, to how to get there and what to wear. The suggested trip is supplemented by alternate activities to allow for a fully customizable experience. Don't have time to plan? Allow this book to create a memorable vacation for you! Besides the logistics of what to see and how, this book offers important context for families - the "why" - that allows parents to make travel an educational and growth oriented activity to share as a family. Understand the significance of each location, and provide context for children alongside helpful tips for getting the most out of your time. Finally, and perhaps most exciting, this book provides a collection of original children's stories that take place at locations actually visited during the trip. This historical fiction - appropriate for ages 4-17 - gets them excited about the trip while helping them become more informed. Provide learning opportunities for children on their level, as they enjoy a fun tale of time travel and excitement, starring kids just like them. For more information, visit RealFamilyTrips.com, and be on the lookout for future books for other great locations!

Exploring Israel

Exploring Israel
Author: Jeff Baxter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre:
ISBN:

Does the Bible sometimes seem dry or boring? Learning about the people and places of Israel will give context to the stories and bring the Bible alive with excitement! After all, Israel is the place where Jesus walked and talked, the place where the stories unfolded, and where the pages of the Bible were written. There is something special about the Holy Land that will grab your heart. Whether you have had the privilege of visiting this amazing place or dream of going one day, Exploring Israel is your guide to growing in your faith and gaining a better understanding of this important place. When you digest the history and geography, the Bible begins to go from black and white to vivid color. With important background information, in an easy-to-read format, this resource will help Israel not be simply a distant land, but someplace close to your heart. Let's go on a journey together exploring Israel.

Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination

Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination
Author: Andrew Furman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438403518

CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books Analyzing a wide array of Jewish-American fiction on Israel, Andrew Furman explores the evolving relationship between the Israeli and American Jew. He devotes individual chapters to eight Jewish-American writers who have "imagined" Israel substantially in one or more of their works. In doing so, he gauges the impact of the Jewish state in forging the identity of the American Jewish community and the vision of the Jewish-American writer. Furman devotes individual chapters to Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich. To chart the evolution of the Jewish-American relationship with Israel from pre-statehood until the present, he considers works from 1928 to 1995, examining them in their historical and political contexts. The writers Furman examines address the central issues which have linked and divided the American and Israeli Jewish communities: the role of Israel as both safe haven and spiritual core for Jews everywhere pitted against its secularism, militarism, and entrenched sexism. While the writers Furman examines depict contrasting images of the Middle East, the very persistence of Israel in occupying that imagination reveals, above all, how prominent a role Israel played and continues to play in shaping the Jewish-American identity.

Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts

Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts
Author: Rocco Giansante
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2023-02-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 900453072X

Imagined Israel(s) presents a nuanced image of Israel by considering multiple artistic representations of the Jewish state, stretching beyond stereotypical representations of war and conflict, while also encompassing the experience and perspective of the Jewish diaspora and other communities.

Israel

Israel
Author: Julie Murray
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1617838136

Informative, easy-to-read text and oversized scenic photos draw in readers as they journey through Israel ? home of the famous Dead Sea, the Jordan River, and historic religious sites such as the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock. Readers will learn about Israel?s history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps, a timeline with photos, fun facts, and pronunciation guides aid readers. The book closes with a facts page including Israel?s population and total area, as well as images of the Israeli flag and currency. Students will find valuable report information while exploring Israel! Table of contents, glossary, and index included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy BOOKS is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and Palestine

Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and Palestine
Author: Jonathan Garfinkel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2008-08-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393069664

With lofty ideals, spectacular ambivalence, and endearing naiveté, Jonathan Garfinkel explores Israel and Palestine by talking to ordinary people. Jonathan Garfinkel can’t make up his mind—not about his girlfriend, or Judaism, or Israel. After hearing about a house in Jerusalem where Jews and Arabs coexist in peace, he decides it’s time to venture there. In Israel, nothing is as he imagined it, and nothing is as he was taught. Garfinkel gives us the people behind the headlines: from secret assignations with Palestinian activists and an uninvited visit at an Arab refugee camp to Passover with Orthodox Jewish friends and finding the truth about the mythic coexistence house, Ambivalence is the provocative, surreal, and often hilarious chronicle of his travels. In this part memoir and part quest, Garfinkel struggles with the growing divisions in a troubled region and with the divide in his soul. “Marvelous. Garfinkel deftly mines what it means to simultaneously belong, disavow, love, and loathe an identity, a culture, and a history.... A must-read.”—David Rakoff

We Stand Divided

We Stand Divided
Author: Daniel Gordis
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0062873717

From National Jewish Book Award Winner and author of Israel, a bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reimagines the past, present, and future of Jewish life Relations between the American Jewish community and Israel are at an all-time nadir. Since Israel’s founding seventy years ago, particularly as memory of the Holocaust and of Israel’s early vulnerability has receded, the divide has grown only wider. Most explanations pin the blame on Israel’s handling of its conflict with the Palestinians, Israel’s attitude toward non-Orthodox Judaism, and Israel’s dismissive attitude toward American Jews in general. In short, the cause for the rupture is not what Israel is; it’s what Israel does. These explanations tell only half the story. We Stand Divided examines the history of the troubled relationship, showing that from the outset, the founders of what are now the world’s two largest Jewish communities were responding to different threats and opportunities, and had very different ideas of how to guarantee a Jewish future. With an even hand, Daniel Gordis takes us beyond the headlines and explains how Israel and America have fundamentally different ideas about issues ranging from democracy and history to religion and identity. He argues that as a first step to healing the breach, the two communities must acknowledge and discuss their profound differences and moral commitments. Only then can they forge a path forward, together.