Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Carmen M. Correa Ms.C Ms. Ed.
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2015-03-06
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 1490871217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book can raise your thoughts about God and His power to a higher standard, challenging your faith to believe in His ability and greatness. In His Word, He tells us to prove Him and see.
Author: Hella Winston
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2006-11-15
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0807036285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “complex and heart-wrenchingly compelling” exploration of Hasidic Jews struggling to live within, or outside, their restrictive communities—for viewers of Unorthodox and One of Us (Boston Globe) When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to escape it. Unchosen tells the stories of these “rebel” Hasidim, serious questioners who long for greater personal and intellectual freedom than their communities allow. She meets is Malky Schwartz, who grew up in a Lubavith sect in Brooklyn, and started Footsteps, Inc., an organization that helps ultra-Orthodox Jews who are considering or have already left their community. There is Yossi, a young man who, though deeply attached to the Hasidic culture in which he was raised, longed for a life with fewer restrictions and more tolerance. Yossi's efforts at making such a life, however, were being severely hampered by his fourth grade English and math skills, his profound ignorance of the ways of the outside world, and the looming threat that pursuing his desires would almost certainly lead to rejection by his family and friends. Then she met Dini, a young wife and mother whose decision to deviate even slightly from Hasidic standards of modesty led to threatening phone calls from anonymous men, warning her that she needed to watch the way she was dressing if she wanted to remain a part of the community. Someone else introduced Winston to Steinmetz, a closet bibliophile worked in a small Judaica store in his community and spent his days off anxiously evading discovery in the library of the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary, whose shelves contain non-Hasidic books he is forbidden to read but nonetheless devours, often several at a sitting. There were others still who had actually made the wrenching decision to leave their communities altogether. In her new Preface, Winston discusses the passionate reactions the book has elicited among Hasidim and non-Hasidim alike.
Author: R. J. Kern
Publisher: MW Editions
Published:
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2016, award-winning Minnesota-based photographer R. J. Kern made portraits of youth contestants at Minnesota county fairs. Each participant—some as young as four years old—had spent a year raising an animal, which they had then entered into a 4-H livestock competition. None of the youths who sat for him had succeeded in winning an award, despite the obvious care they had given to their animals. The Unchosen Ones depicts the bloom of youth and the mettle of the kids who grow up on farms, reminding us how resilient children can be when confronted with life's inevitable disappointments. The formal qualities of the lighting and setting endow these young people with a gravitas beyond their years, revealing self-directed dedication in some, and in others, perhaps, the pressures of traditions imposed upon them. Kern's beautiful portraits capture a particular America, a rural world, and a time in life when the layered emotions of youth are laid bare. Four years later, in 2020, Kern returned to photograph his young subjects. The most recent photographs show how the children have grown into adolescence or young adulthood: some of them have continued to pursue animal husbandry, while others have developed other interests. It is likely that some of these kids will not choose to continue running their family farms—an unpredictable and demanding way to make a living. These diptychs are punctuated by lush landscapes of the farms that are their homes. As Kern made the second group of photographs, he asked his young subjects what they had carried forward from their previous experience. What were their thoughts, their dreams, and their goals for the future? How would they fit into the future of agricultural America?
Author: MAMTA PRAJAPATI
Publisher: BookSquirrel Publication
Published: 2021-02-25
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDear Reader The path is not the only way to a particular destination. It is also a way of success. Each human has the zeal to do something in their life. They are a dreamer, passionate lover, and self-motivator also. Sometimes they have to face the issues in their life. So, by cutting all the hurdles in the way of life, we proceed with the flow of life with victory, joy, and happiness. The unchosen path is a collection of poetry, quotes, and stories of life, the experience of life, different colors of life, and motivation which gathered all the unchosen paths that a person chooses in their life. Hope you choose the right path in your life. With lots of love 'The Unchosen Path'
Author: Kenneth B. Moss
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0674245105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revisionist account of interwar EuropeÕs largest Jewish community that upends histories of Jewish agency to rediscover reckonings with nationalismÕs pathologies, diasporaÕs fragility, ZionismÕs promises, and the necessity of choice. What did the future hold for interwar EuropeÕs largest Jewish community, the font of global Jewish hopes? When intrepid analysts asked these questions on the cusp of the 1930s, they discovered a Polish Jewry reckoning with Òno tomorrow.Ó Assailed by antisemitism and witnessing liberalismÕs collapse, some Polish Jews looked past progressive hopes or religious certainties to investigate what the nation-state was becoming, what powers minority communities really possessed, and where a future might be foundÑand for whom. The story of modern Jewry is often told as one of creativity and contestation. Kenneth B. Moss traces instead a late Jewish reckoning with diasporic vulnerability, nationalismÕs terrible potencies, ZionismÕs promises, and the necessity of choice. Moss examines the works of Polish JewryÕs most searching thinkers as they confronted political irrationality, state crisis, and the limits of resistance. He reconstructs the desperate creativity of activists seeking to counter despair where they could not redress its causes. And he recovers a lost grassroots history of critical thought and political searching among ordinary Jews, young and powerless, as they struggled to find a viable future for themselvesÑin Palestine if not in Poland, individually if not communally. Focusing not on ideals but on a search for realism, Moss recasts the history of modern Jewish political thought. Where much scholarship seeks Jewish agency over a collective future, An Unchosen People recovers a darker tradition characterized by painful tradeoffs amid a harrowing political reality, making Polish Jewry a paradigmatic example of the minority experience endemic to the nation-state.
Author: Jannis Panagiotidis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2019-08-28
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0253043654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis “fascinating, original, well-researched, and persuasively argued work” examines the phenomenon of co-ethnic migration in Israel and Germany (Sebastian Conrad, author of What Is Global History?). Co-ethnic migration happens when migrants seek admission to a country based on their purported ethnicity or nationality being the same as the country of destination. In The Unchosen Ones, social historian Jannis Panagiotidis looks at legislation and implementation regarding co-ethnic migration in Germany and Israel. This study focuses on individual cases ranging from after the Second World War to after the fall of the Berlin Wall where migrants were not allowed to enter the country they sought to make their home. These rejections confound notions of an “open door” or a “return to the homeland” and present contrasting ideas of descent, culture, blood, and race. Questions of historical origins, immigrant selection and screening, and national belonging are deeply ambiguous, complicating migration even in nations that are purported to be ethnically homogenous. Through highly original and illuminating analysis, Panagiotidis shows that migration is never a simple matter of moving from place to place.
Author: Midge K. Carole
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1628380780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt takes the darkest of times for us to appreciate the brightest light… Beginning life in a close-knit family, our narrator was surrounded by the love of her mother, stepfather, sister, and grandfather. But as time marches on and paradise unravels around her, our narrator finds herself falling into an endless cycle of difficult situations. In the summer of 1955, the narrator found herself prematurely married and pregnant. At only fifteen years old, her husband, Handsome, made her life difficult, but their first son, Stevie, redefined our narrator’s definition of hardships, and helped her focus on becoming a stronger person. This story is just as much about Stevie as it is about the plight of our narrator. It is about a brave boy who lives with his Cerebral Palsy and his mother who learns everything there is to know about how to make Stevie’s life as pleasant as possible. With each downfall, our narrator proves what a fighter she is as she rises from the ashes like an undefeatable phoenix.
Author: Joel N. Lohr
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2009-06-23
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1575066157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2011 RBY Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies/Société canadienne des études bibliques The God of the Bible favors a national people, Israel, and this is at the cost of the other nations. In fact, not being Israel usually means humiliation or destruction or simply being ignored by God. Reading the text “with the grain” or placing oneself within the chosen’s perspective may seem very well until one considers the unchosen. There is much regarding the unchosen that has not been explored in scholarly research, but in this important work, Lohr attempts to make sense of the question of election and nonelection in the OT as a Christian interpreter and with a concern for the history of interpretation and Jewish-Christian dialogue. He also corrects a Christian tendency to read election and nonelection as love and damnation, respectively, a perception that is altogether foreign to the OT itself. The unchosen are important to the overall world view of Scripture and, although election entails exclusion, and God’s love for the one people Israel is a love in contrast to others, it does not follow that the unchosen fall outside of the economy of God’s purposes, his workings, or his ways. The unchosen often face important tests of their own and have a responsibility to God and the chosen, however much this idea defies modern-day notions of fairness. It is a central idea of Scripture that already appears in the original call of and promises made to Abram and something that, if ignored, places our larger understanding of God at risk. Equally important, if contemporary faith communities (both Jewish and Christian) form their understanding of “the other” on a faulty reading of Scripture regarding the unchosen, chaos and hatred can ensue. The political and religious climate of our contemporary world has never presented a more important time to get this matter right. Scholars and students alike are finding Chosen and Unchosen to be an indispensable resource as they mull over these difficult questions.
Author: Lily Skyy
Publisher: Books to Hook Publishing, LLC.
Published: 2023-02-06
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1956525041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK*Series Complete!* Five magical artifacts. Two worlds under threat. And five ordinary students tasked with saving the universe. The last thing Kire expected was to be running for his life. But after his bullies chase him into a hidden cave in the forest, he stumbles upon a mysterious ancient ruin with a sinister magical secret at its core. A parallel universe is desperately calling for help – and five unlikely students are destined to become its saviors. Five magical items, each with unique powers, beckon them. Kire quickly finds himself roped into a ragtag team with his two worst bullies, a shy bookworm, and a cheerleader with a long-buried secret. Their two worlds are about to collide. A magical book holds the key to preventing disaster – but Kire is the only one who can read it. Stuck with the seemingly impossible burden of defeating a horde of evil magical creatures and struggling to work together with his newfound allies, can Kire and the rest of the Unlikely Defenders save both of their worlds from destruction? Step into a thrilling urban fantasy saga that’s packed with explosive action and page-turning suspense. The first book in the Unlikely Defenders series is a hard-hitting read that will delight fans of fast-paced YA adventures. Scroll up and grab your copy now.
Author: Jack Drescher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-03
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1136574956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefenders and critics of the controversial Spitzer study analyze its methodologies and findings In 2001, Robert L. Spitzer, MD, presented his study on sexual conversion therapy with its controversial findings that some homosexuals can change their sexual orientation. The resulting media sensation and political firestorm enraged the study’s critics and emboldened its supporters. Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture presents leading experts examining Spitzer’s research methodology and findings to discern whether the study itself deserves deeper consideration or outright dismissal. Every facet of the study is reviewed to discuss the positive or negative aspects of the results, its significance in political and social terms, and the implications for the future. Dr. Spitzer himself was an instrumental figure in the American Psychiatric Association's decision in 1973 to remove homosexuality as a mental illness listing from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III. His later study that states that in some individuals, homosexuality may be more fluid than previously thought stirred controversy in the psychiatric community and society at large. His study is presented here to allow the reader to evaluate and consider it for themselves. Leading experts then voice their own pro or con views on the methodology and findings. Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture fearlessly illustrates the sometimes fuzzy boundary between science and politics, courageously spotlighting the culture wars now dividing our society. Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture discusses: the ex-gay movement the nature of scientific inquiry the relationship between science and politics the results of sexual conversion therapies gay and lesbian rights Ex-Gay Research: Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture is essential reading for sex researchers, mental health professionals, pastoral counselors, political activists, and any person asking if one can truly “change” his or her homosexuality.
