San Antonio College Library

A detailed and comprehensive guide to conservative Jewish practice, including laws of kashrut, observance of the Sabbath and holidays, life events. presents full. Discussions, from the Jewish point of view, of current issues . includes the decisions of the law Committee of the rabbinical Assembly on driving. On the Sabbath, calling women to the Torah, and counting them in the minyan.

Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize "us" and "them" through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation, elucidating the ways ancient and medieval scholars use food restrictions to think about the "other." Freidenreich illuminates the subtly different ways Jews,...