RRC Press seeks to promote new and creative approaches to Jewish life. Among its publications is the dynamic Guide to Jewish Practice series, in which the Center for Jewish Ethics of RRC gives a Reconstructionist perspective on contemporary Jewish practice—from keeping kosher to bioethics. Other Ethics Center publications discuss issues such as decision-making at the end of life.
Books may be ordered by contacting RRC Press: 215-576-0800, ext. 145 or by ordering online.
For anyone ordering from outside the continental United States, please contact us by phone (see above) or by email, so that we may help you with international shipping.
A Guide to Jewish Practice: Community, Gemilut Hesed, and Tikun Olam
A Guide to Jewish Practice: Organizational Ethics and
Economic Justice
A Guide to Jewish Practice: Welcoming Children
A Guide to Jewish Practice: Ethics of Speech
A Guide to Jewish Practice: The Journey of Mourning
A Guide to Jewish Practice:Kashrut
A Guide to Jewish Practice: Bioethics
A Guide to Jewish Practice: Tzedaka
Jewish Ethics of Speech: Disclosure to the Terminally Ill
Behoref Hayamim: A Values-Based Guide to Jewish Decision Making at the End of Life
Quality of Life in Jewish Bioethics
Making a Difference: A Guide to Jewish Leadership and Not-for-Profit Management
NEW: A Guide to Jewish Practice: Community, Gemilut Hesed, and Tikun Olam
By David A. Teutsch
This fresh exploration of community, interpersonal caring and acts for the betterment of the world is shaped by penetrating commentary offering practical advice and sophisticated exploration of key concepts. Activities such as visiting the sick and working in a soup kitchen, attending a funeral and engaging in community organizing are framed in terms of relationships and commitments to world transformation. Excellent for adult study, social action committees and personal use.
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Making a Difference: A Guide to Jewish Leadership and Not-for-Profit Management
By David A. Teutsch
A new book offers Jewish leaders both practical guidance and inspiration—combining for the first time the best contemporary knowledge in management, organizational culture, psychology and systems theory with material from relevant traditional Jewish texts.
Price: $29.95 per copy for orders of 1 to 9
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Discount: $25 for one copy, available to RRC students, RRA members and STAR rabbis (please use discount code on order form)
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A Guide to Jewish Practice: Ethics of Speech
By David A. Teutsch
The way we use speech - oral, written or on the Internet - can build or destroy our communities. This volume provides a moral framework for how we use language, covering such issues as plagiarism, gossip, frankness, keeping promises and confidentiality.
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A Guide to Jewish Practice: The Journey of Mourning
By Richard Hirsh
This accessible and informative book gathers the wisdom Jewish tradition provides when we encounter death and loss. Traditions and customs are presented and explained, and extensive commentaries illuminate the variety of ways Reconstructionist Judaism can guide us through times of loss.
An extensive supplement includes rituals for getting up from shiva, lighting a yahrtzeit candle, unveiling/dedication of a memorial marker, and a ritual for closing a home following a death. Also included are the text, translation and transliteration of the mourner's kaddish.
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A Guide to Jewish Practice: Kashrut Second Edition
By David A. Teutsch
This is an essential publication for contemporary Jews seeking guidance on how Jewish traditions can shape the everyday decisions they make. It includes a list of Jewish values that can guide decision making and a section that applies the values to kashrut – the Jewish dietary practices. While most contemporary Jews do not accept the authority of halakha (Jewish law), many of them do want to learn about traditions and customs and to explore how old and new Jewish resources, practices and insights can shape their lives. This is their guide.
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A Guide to Jewish Practice: Bioethics
By David A. Teutsch
This book thoughtfully addresses a number of hot-button issues. Is euthanasia ever permissible? How should we make decisions on behalf of an incapacitated patient? When is abortion a valid ethical choice? And ultimately, is it only the individual patient who is responsible for maintaining health, or should society assume some of the burden?
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A Guide to Jewish Practice: Tzedaka
By David A. Teutsch
This book provides insight into the ethics of philanthropy. It examines such questions as where we should give and how much, how we should solicit funds and how we can assess the effectiveness of organizations we might support. Complex issues such as Jewish giving versus general giving and educating the next generation about tzedaka are explored . Commentary provides alternative viewpoints.
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Jewish Ethics of Speech: Disclosure to the Terminally Ill
By Dr. Dawn Robinson Rose with Rabbi Mona Decker
This book is written for two different educational settings: individual learning and group learning with an instructor. It include a long essay and text study, and provides commentary and case studies, applying the thinking of rabbinic scholars as well as contemporary scholars, ethicists and practitioners.
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Behoref Hayamim: A Values-Based Guide to Jewish Decision Making at the End of Life
By the Center for Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
This book offers practical advice about Jewish traditions and customs for families facing difficult choices at the end of life. Physicians, scholars and experienced chaplains write chapters that provide medical information and apply Jewish moral perspectives to the many decisions that individuals, professionals and families must make as death approaches.
The 224-page guide covers such topics as technologies used in end-stage medical interventions, documents and advance conversations that can aid the family later, managing key relationships with professionals, challenges accompanying diagnosis, approaches to pain and suffering, hospice and end-of-life care, when to end a life, and death and mourning.
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Quality of Life in Jewish Bioethics
Edited by Noam J. Zohar
Eleven essays by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines and Jewish perspectives explore how changes in medical care and technology affect the traditional focus of Jewish bioethics on preserving life. The essays break new ground in examining the place of the concept of quality of life within Jewish bioethics. This volume is a product of the first conference for the Academic Coalition of Jewish Bioethics, which is cosponsored by the RRC Center for Jewish Ethics.
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A Guide to Jewish Practice: Organizational Ethics and Economic Justice
By David A. Teutsch
This exploration of basic approaches and major issues examines business ethics, not-for-profit ethics and economic justice. Topics include the meaning of work; obligations of employers and employees and of buyers and sellers; competition and cooperation; monopolies; gifts, wills and bequests; government, taxation, zoning and criminal behavior; self-defense; and mediation and arbitration. Commentary explores conflicts and introduces alternative approaches.
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A Guide to Jewish Practice: Welcoming Children
By Richard Hirsh
Welcoming Children provides teachings, insights, traditions, rituals and commentaries that can help create a meaningful Jewish context for the arrival of children. It includes extended discussions of how adoptive as well as interfaith families can find rich resources in Judaism and provides a thorough yet accessible guide to one of life’s most meaningful moments. A supplementary section includes innovative blessings, prayers and rituals for parents.
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All books may be ordered by contacting RRC Press: 215-576-0800, ext. 145 or by ordering online. For international shipping, please contact us directly by phone or by email.
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