Non­fic­tion

Val­ues and Ethics — Through a Jew­ish Lens

Joyce and Fred Claar
  • From the Publisher
May 3, 2016

Val­ues and Ethics — Through a Jew­ish Lens empow­ers par­ents to bring rel­e­vant moral val­ues of Judaism into fam­i­ly dis­cus­sions. Top­ics are indexed by themes, such as Anger, Atti­tude, Grat­i­tude, Humil­i­ty, Jeal­ousy, and more. Week­ly Torah read­ings and hol­i­days are also indexed with three rel­e­vant approach­es to each Torah portion.

What makes this book unique is that each self-con­tained approach is approx­i­mate­ly 300 words, nev­er more than one page. The first para­graph intro­duces a val­ue or eth­ic rel­e­vant to life today. The sec­ond para­graph ref­er­ences the Torah por­tion from which it comes. The third para­graph ties it all togeth­er, lead­ing to sev­er­al open-end­ed ques­tions to spark fam­i­ly discussions.

This book is an out­growth of the authors’ Fri­day nights with their young chil­dren and, lat­er, grand­chil­dren, some of whom are in col­lege today. Val­ues and Ethics&emdash;Through a Jew­ish Lens is already being used suc­cess­ful­ly with par­ents in a grow­ing num­ber of syn­a­gogues, JCCs, and Jew­ish organizations.

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