Kosher Movies Volume II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kosher Movies Volume II write by Herbert Cohen. This book was released on 2018-09-20. Kosher Movies Volume II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Film critic Rabbi Herbert J. Cohen views films as potential life lessons, and defines a "kosher movie" as one that has something valuable to say about the human condition. In this survey spanning many genres, Cohen presents films as tools for self-discovery and for navigating challenges of life. What do romantic comedies really say about love? What can Mad Max teach us about the value of time? What parenting lessons can we learn from The Secret Life of Pets? Exploring more than 100 stand-out movies from the past 30 years, Cohen shares inspiring personal anecdotes about self-growth, relationships, parenting, aging, dealing with adversity and more."A harmonious convergence of faith and art." - Senator Joseph Lieberman"It's like Chicken Soup for the Soul meets Roger Ebert."- Vincent Coppola, former Newsweek writer and noted author"Rabbi Cohen is clearly a movie fan. His passion and insight, discovering moral values beyond what may have been intended is a refreshing spin on the typical film critique."- Steve Posen, movie producer
Kosher Movies
Kosher Movies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kosher Movies write by Rabbi Herbert Cohen. This book was released on 2015-07-15. Kosher Movies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Crossing genres of films, this book contains movies that have lessons in them as a way of finding insights into daily life. While other critics summarize a film, focus on the amount of profanity and nudity it contains, and decide whether it's worthwhile to watch, Herbert Cohen takes a different tactic and views films as life lessons. This collection of meaningful films, with inspiring and emotional stories that help understand the plight of others, provides new ways to approach self-growth.
Movie-Made Jews
Movie-Made Jews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Movie-Made Jews write by Helene Meyers. This book was released on 2021-09-17. Movie-Made Jews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Movie-Made Jews focuses on a rich, usable American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews through antisemitism, Holocaust indirection, and discontent with assimilation. It prominently features the unapologetic assertion of Jewishness, queerness, and alliances across race and religion. Author Helene Meyers shows that as we go to our local theater, attend a Jewish film festival, play a DVD, watch streaming videos, Jewishness becomes part of the multicultural mosaic rather than collapsing into a generic whiteness or being represented as a life apart. This engagingly-written book demonstrates that a Jewish movie is neither just a movie nor for Jews only. With incisive analysis, Movie-Made Jews challenges the assumption that American Jewish cinema is a cinema of impoverishment and assimilation. While it’s a truism that Jews make movies, this book brings into focus the diverse ways movies make Jews.
Kosher Nation
Kosher Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kosher Nation write by Sue Fishkoff. This book was released on 2010-10-12. Kosher Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kosher? That means the rabbi blessed it, right? Not exactly. In this captivating account of a Bible-based practice that has grown into a multibillions-dollar industry, journalist Sue Fishkoff travels throughout America and to Shanghai, China, to find out who eats kosher food, who produces it, who is responsible for its certification, and how this fascinating world continues to evolve. She explains why 86 percent of the 11.2 million Americans who regularly buy kosher food are not observant Jews—they are Muslims, Seventh-day Adventists, vegetarians, people with food allergies, and consumers who pay top dollar for food they believe “answers to a higher authority.” Fishkoff interviews food manufacturers, rabbinic supervisors, and ritual slaughterers; meets with eco-kosher adherents who go beyond traditional requirements to produce organic chicken and pasture-raised beef; sips boutique kosher wine in Napa Valley; talks to shoppers at an upscale kosher supermarket in Brooklyn; and marches with unemployed workers at the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant. She talks to Reform Jews who are rediscovering the spiritual benefits of kashrut, and to Conservative and Orthodox Jews who are demanding that kosher food production adhere to ethical and environmental values. And she chronicles the corruption, price-fixing, and strong arm tactics of early-twentieth-century kosher meat production, against which contemporary kashrut standards pale by comparison. A revelatory look at the current state of kosher in America, this book will appeal to anyone interested in food, religion, Jewish identity, or big business.
The Grandees
The Grandees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Grandees write by Stephen Birmingham. This book was released on 2015-12-01. The Grandees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New World’s earliest Jewish immigrants and their unique, little-known history: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Life at the Dakota. In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain and Portugal but were then exiled from their homeland by intolerant monarchs. A small, closed, and intensely private community, the Sephardim soon established themselves as businessmen and financiers, earning great wealth. They became powerful forces in society, with some, like banker Haym Salomon, even providing financial support to George Washington’s army during the American Revolution. Yet despite its major role in the birth and growth of America, this extraordinary group has remained virtually impenetrable and unknowable to outsiders. From author of “Our Crowd” Stephen Birmingham, The Grandees delves into the lives of the Sephardim and their historic accomplishments, illuminating the insulated world of these early Americans. Birmingham reveals how these families, with descendants including poet Emma Lazarus, Barnard College founder Annie Nathan Meyer, and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, influenced—and continue to influence—American society.
