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Scholarly Texts
• Adler, Rachel. Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1999.
• Cohen, Shaye J. D. The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
• Galambush, Julie. The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament’s Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book. San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 2005.
• Goodman, Martin. A History of Judaism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Weblinks
• www.jewfaq.org—Judaism 101
• www.aish.com—The Jewish website
• www.myjewishlearning.com
• www.beingjewish.com
• Union for Reform Judaism—www.urj.org
• United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism—www.uscj.org
Educational Documentaries
• The Forbidden Garden: Piercing the Veil of the Kabbalah, 2000, 63 min., www.insight-media.com
• Essentials of Faith: Judaism, 2006, 24 min., www.insight-media.com
• Introduction to Judaism, 2004, 30 min., www.insight-media.com
• Keepers of the Faith: Hasidim in the New World and Beyond, 2000, 53 min., www.insight-media.com
Popular Films
• The Chosen (1981). Directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan—A sentimental but historically sensitive portrayal of Hasidic life and the struggle to preserve a traditional legacy in the modern world.
• Schindler’s List (1993). Directed by Steven Spielberg—A powerful dramatization of the rescue of over 1,000 Polish Jews from the Nazi death camps by an ex-Nazi war profiteer.
• Ushpizin (2005). Directed by Gidi Dar—An Israeli film that offers a sympathetic and somewhat whimsical view of ultra-Orthodox life in contemporary Jerusalem.
• The Women’s Balcony (2017). Directed by Emil Ben-Shimon—a satiric comedy, set in Israel, that takes on misogyny and fanaticism in an Orthodox community.
Literature
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok (1987)—Potok’s best-known novel, about a Hasidic dynasty in New York.
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947/1997)—A classic account of a young Jewish girl’s experiences during the Holocaust.
• Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters by Elie Wiesel (1982)—An evocative account of some of Hasidism’s leading figures.