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Text © 2020, 2004 Robert Schoen.
First edition published 2004 by Loyola Press.
Updated edition published 2020 by Stone Bridge Press.
The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible copyright © 1993 and 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Additional excerpts are from Gates of Prayer for Shabbat and Weekdays: A Gender Sensitive Prayerbook, copyright © 1994 by Central Conference of American Rabbis, and are used by permission.
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e-ISBN 978-1-61172-947-4
To the memory of my grandparents, who crossed an ocean, passed through Ellis Island, and learned a new language so that my parents, their children, and their children’s children could live in a land of religious freedom and tolerance.
Contents
Going to Church: The Jewish Roots of Christian Worship
Contemporary Synagogues and Congregations
Symbols—The Mezuzah and the Star of David
Congregation Membership and Paying the Bills
Holidays and the Jewish Calendar
The High Holidays—Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Hanukkah—Is It Really the “Jewish Christmas”?
Baby Namings and Rituals for Daughters