Judaism Today

Judaism Today
Author: Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2013-02-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441112200

For nearly four millennia Judaism was essentially a unified religious system based on shared traditions. Despite the emergence of various sub-groups through the centuries such as the Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Karaites, Shabbateans and Hasadim, Jewry was united in the belief in a providential God who had chosen the Jews as his special people and given them a code of law. In the modern period, however, the Jewish religion has fragmented into a series of separate denominations with competing ideologies and theological views. Despite the creation of the State of Israel, the Jewish people are deeply divided concerning the most fundamental issues of belief and practice. Judaism Today gives an account of the nature of traditional Judaism, provides an introduction to the various divisions that currently exist in the Jewish world and identifies and discusses contemporary issues with which the Jewish faith engages in the twenty-first century. This refreshing new approach focuses on how Judaism is actually perceived and practised by Jews themselves and the problems currently facing Jews worldwide.

Poisoning Eros

Poisoning Eros
Author: Monica J. O'Rourke
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Sometimes life is unfair. Sometimes life just plain sucks. You do what you can to get by, but sometimes even that isn't enough. Meet Gloria, aging porno star, drug addict, failed wife and mother—seduced into a monstrous world of depraved sex and violent deceit, battling to save her immortal soul and that of her only daughter from Inferno … and you thought your life was hell.

The Price of Life

The Price of Life
Author: Ecila
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2013-06-24
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1481748610

Share the steamy passion of forbidden lovers while a fresh love blossoms. Cry from the loneliness of lost love. Relive the feelings of that first sexual experience. Feel the pain of losing a loved one. Live through the nightmares of someone with PTSD and agoraphobia combined with depression. Be so mesmerized while turning the pages you will be starting over without realizing. Experience life.

Tarnished Soul

Tarnished Soul
Author: Beth Flynn
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre:
ISBN:

From USA Today Bestselling author, Beth Flynn, comes an emotional slow-burn, opposites attract standalone romance. Some souls are more tarnished than others, but when two collide, not once but twice, it seems fate may just have her way. Ex-con and ruthless biker, Jonas Brooks is stunned when he encounters the selfless angel who saved his life six years ago. With his massive size and alarming tattoos, Jonas terrifies people on sight. But the beautiful, kind, and intelligent Lucy Renquest sees beyond his frightening exterior the moment she lays eyes on him. Despite being an outcast with an extremely high IQ, Lucy's confidence and courage propels her to success. Finding the good in people is her biggest strength-and greatest weakness. When Jonas cleverly deceives her into accompanying him to a secluded cabin in the alligator-infested Florida Everglades, she's beyond furious-until her anger fades and their passion ignites. When Jonas and Lucy return to their normal lives, he discovers that she's in danger. Now, it's up to Jonas to save the woman who saved him. Can a criminal with a tarnished soul protect his angel and find the truth before it's too late?

Finding Room...In from the Deep

Finding Room...In from the Deep
Author: Marcie Ryan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2023-05-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1669864014

"When I made love with him, I used a great deal of energy and afterwards I felt and started not to care about anything that would normally bother me. I allowed myself to feel the joy inside of myself. I felt renewed every time I had experienced deep passion with the man he was. Obviously, there was a direct link between chastity, religion and political orthodoxy. I began to realize that in order to sustain fear and lunatic madness that one has to 'bottle' some powerful instinct and use it as a driving force. This was my mother still alive within me pushing and forcing me to honor the faith and cultural imperatives. ...from "The Affair". This is a gutsy revelation, raw yet tender. We know whereof Sandra speaks. This author belongs to her work.

Soul Weaver

Soul Weaver
Author: Hailey Edwards
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1455523461

Since the accident that nearly took her life, Chloe suffers from acute agoraphobia. Living alone above her family's bookstore, she spends restless nights terrified by strange visions . . . until a mysterious stranger appears and offers her salvation. Chloe is drawn to the ethereal, gorgeous Nathaniel-but her haunted soul warns her there is more to him than meets the eye. An archangel who roams Earth collecting souls of the newly departed, Nathaniel is the sole witness to the accident that should have taken Chloe's life. Seduced by the purity of her soul, he defies Providence by saving her life. But his attempt at kindness marks Chloe for damnation, and makes her an unwitting pawn in a game of unholy ambition. Now together they must fight the demons of Hell itself-for a love that defies the boundaries of Heaven and Earth. "4 STARS. Edwards mines the world of fallen angels for her new Wicked Kin series, beginning with Soul Weaver, a rich romance you'll loose yourself in..this race-against-time romance between a bookseller, who suffers from agoraphobia after a life-threatening accident, and the man she has no idea is a fallen angel will have hearts melting. Edwards is off to an excellent start with this series." -- RT Book Reviews

Rethinking Columbus

Rethinking Columbus
Author: Bill Bigelow
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
Total Pages: 197
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 094296120X

Provides resources for teaching elementary and secondary school students about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.

The Angel Diaries and the Antichrist

The Angel Diaries and the Antichrist
Author: James L. Whitmer
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2016-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1532011652

In the curious realm known as the Wasteland, positioned precariously between heaven and hell, the pendulum of good and evil oftentimes swings in unforeseen and unanticipated directions. It is in this oddity of mankinds own making that choices, with respect to choosing good over evil or vice versa, hold center stage. For there is surely unremitting evil in the world, but the real question remaining is whether or not there is the requisite quantity of good to overwhelm it. Contained herein are accounts from the Wasteland that address this simple conundrum.