Research Catalog

Title

Beacons of light; thoughts for special days and occasions, compiled and edited by Bernard S. Raskas.

Author

Raskas, Bernard S.,

Publication

New York, Bloch Pub. Co. [1965]

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Holdings

Details

Description

vii, 263 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Jewish occasional sermons
• Jewish occasional sermons

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. The meaning of life: Thoughts too deep for tears / Bernard S. Raskas -- 2. Birth: Birth is a beginning / Moses B. Sachs -- 3. Bar Mitzvah: A Bar Mitzvah address / Daniel Goldberger -- 4. Bart Mitzvah: You and your Bar Mitzvah / Uri Miller -- 5. Bat Mitzvah: A challenge and an opportunity / Sol Landau -- 6. Confirmation: The finest fruits / Earl S. Stone -- 7. Marriage: The meaning of the Jewish home / Stanley R. Brav -- 8. Parenthood: Parents and children / Ralph Simon -- 9. Wedding anniversary: The delight of Judaism, between husband and wife / Alan S. Green -- 10. Eulogy for a young person / Mordecai Simon -- 11. Eulogy for a woman / Bernard A. Poupko -- 12. Eulogy for a child / Simon Glumstrum -- 13. Unveiling of a woman's tombstone / Nahum Schulman -- 14. Unveiling of a man's tombstone / Nahum Schulman -- 15. Yizkor: It's later than you think / Mordecai Halpern -- 16. Installation of the men's club / Joel Geffen -- 17. Installation of a women's group / Sidney Steiman --^
• 18. Installation of a rabbi / Isaac Klein -- 19. Dedication of a Jewish agency: The purpose of the Jewish community -- 20. Community fund raising: What should you give? / Kalmen S. Goldberg -- 21. New member's service: What kind of Jew are you? / Robert A. Rothman -- 22. Israel's Independence Day: Though thy beginning was small / Charles E. Shulman -- 23. Jewish music: A people that sings lives / Charles M. Weisner -- Civic events -- 24. Lincoln's birthday: Abraham Lincoln, his brother's keeper / A. Alan Steinbach -- 25. Brotherhood: The great barrier to brotherhood / Jay Robert Brickman -- 26. Washington's birthday: First in the hearts of his countrymen / Moshe Dworkin -- 27. Mother's day: The holiest thing alive / Maurice Lyons -- 28. Memorial day: The strength of the people / Judah Nadich -- 29. Father's day: Bridging the gap / Kassel Abelson -- 30. Fourth of July: America, the beautiful / Albert Minda -- 31. Labor Day: A labor of love / Jack Reiner --^
• 32. United Nations day: Starting all over again / Arthur S. Hollander -- 33. Thanksgiving: The essence of faith / Stanley Rabinowitz -- Some basic Jewish values -- 34. Adult education: What every Jew should know / Robert Gordis -- 35. Balance: The hallmark of Judaism / Samuel M. Silver -- 36. The college student: The college student's Judaism / Richard C. Hertz -- 37. The Hebrew camp: The Hebrew camp is character building / Burton Cohen -- 38. Hebrew language: One of the great languages of the world / Edward Horowitz -- 39. Higher Jewish education: Study and action / Bernard Mandelbaum -- 40. The Jewish attitude toward death: That the bereaved may find comfort / Hillel E. Silverman -- 41. The Jewish press: One of the oldest institutions in American Jewish life / Bernard Postal -- 42. Judaism and the arts: That we aspire to a higher destiny / Percival Goodman -- 43. Judaism and mental health: A doubly powerful tool / Mordecai L. Brill --^
• 44. The place of a woman in Judaism: What does it mean to be a Jewish woman? -- 45. Responsibility: The sin that makes the others possible / Walter H. Plaut -- 46. Ritual: Jewish ritual and the individual / Seymour Siegel -- 47. The role of the Jewish woman in the community: She doeth good all the days of her life / Mrs. Arnold Rubenstein -- 48. Social justice: Judaism and the issues -- 49. The synagogue: Belonging to the synagogue / David Aronson -- 50. Talmud Torah: Torah triumphant / Saul I. Teplitz -- 51. A teen-ager speaks: If you scratch the surface / Barbara Eve Waldman -- 52. Unitd Jewish appeal: A beacon of light and life / Herbert A. Friedman -- 53. World Jewry: Here we are; send us forth! / Emaunel G. Scoblionko -- A word about the contributors.

LCCN

^^^65026712^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library