A Guide to Jewish Practice, Vol. 1: Everyday Living

A Guide to Jewish Practice: Everyday Living (RRC Press) is the first comprehensive guide to Jewish living of its kind. It is intended to provide guidance to readers who wish to lead lives of integrity and meaning built on Values-Based Decision-Making a core tenet of Reconstructionist Judaism. Written by Rabbi David A. Teutsch, director of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College s Center for Jewish Ethics, the new Guide features commentary from nearly 70 scholars and leaders of contemporary Jewish life, including Rabbis Mordechai Liebling, Sandy Sasso, Sid Schwarz and Sheila Weinberg, as well as Ruth Messinger, Marilyn Price, and others. The first of a three-part series, this volume of A Guide to Jewish Practice covers Everyday Spirituality; Ethics of Speech; Family and Sex Ethics; Community, G milut Hesed and Tikun Olam; Organizational Ethics and Economic Justice; Tzedaka; Bioethics; Kashrut and Making Decisions. A Guide to Jewish Practice has wide universal appeal and is meant for a diverse readership. Through its pages, readers of all backgrounds will find themselves uplifted and informed.

Rabbi David A. Teutsch is the Director of the Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics and the Louis and Myra Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.