The meaning of the wonderfully evocative and rich word, chutzpah, that has no exact translation in English, is elusive. This book includes stories that feature people who went the extra mile - people who employed, harnessed, leveraged, embraced, utilised, exploited, adopted and displayed their chutzpah.
The well-known attorney discusses what it is like to be Jewish today, examining such issues as anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, Zionism, civil rights, the role of Jews in the U.S.S.R., changes in Eastern Europe, and more.
By showing us the ever-presence of chutzpah in Judaism he reveals the inner story of the Jewish People’s soul as well as the meaning that Judaism’s deepest purpose and most precious treasure has for us today.
In these stories one may encounter a sweet, lonely fabric store owner or a lesbian housecleaner, a posse of shit-talking vo-tech students or a human hive-mind. A jeep-driving swordsman girds himself for battle by reading Borges and Nabokov.
This volume corrects the historical record of anti-Semitism, revealing recent scholarly consensus on the hottest issues of the Israel-Palestine conflict, especially human rights.
One for Stanley Gibbons. A popular synonym for chutzpah is balls. And few Saatchi people have ever been better endowed than Jennifer Laing. During her time as an account director, according to account man Patrick Hanson-Lowe, ...
In this clarion call for a new way to ''do Judaism,'' award - winning spiritual leader Rabbi Edward Feinstein urges us to recover this message of Jewish selfempowerment - or chutzpah - to reshape the world.
Filled with real life examples, humorous anecdotes and practical applications, this book will entertain and inspire.
With chutzpah and kippah.
Chutzpah: A Jewish Liberation Anthology
Dershowitz offers a sweeping & keen view of where Jews have been, where they are going & how they must change to survive.