Lydia Kukoff
Autor(a) de Choosing Judaism
About the Author
Obras por Lydia Kukoff
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
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Every Person's Guide to Judaism por Lydia Kukoff Stephen J. Einstein
Recently moved to area in NY where many practice Judaism. This book provided overview of history, holidays, and hardships of Jewish religion and practitioners of Judaism. Smiled when reading about quiet introspection and values of family, community.
It is a short book, but it presented a fairly good perspective about some of the situations encountered during and after conversion as well as offering some helpful advice.
Very basic Judaism 101. Very dry.
A convert's discussion on how to "own" Judaism. Gives lots of fairly good advice. However, I don't think I am really going to have a problem "owning" Judaism. I am certainly going to have an issue with all this Hebrew but that's ok. I hate to say this but I've owned my bit of Judaism for such a long time that I am pretty comfortable with the version I have. I don't want to add more. At this stage, I just want to live as a really good Reform Jew because I am already living as a very good Reform Jew. Yiddish means more than Hebrew to me and that is how I see Judaism. That is one example of my ownership. I own Jewish humour too. I also own some of the stereotypes be it for better or for worse.… (mais)
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- 3
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- 601
- Popularidade
- #41,822
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- 3.7
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- 5
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