New Jewish Homemakers Guide

"This book offers a complete guide to contemporary, creative homemaking as it derives from the Jewish tradition"--Back cover.

This is the survival kit for the Jewish juggler of time and responsibilities. Chaya Levine and Nechamah Berg are mothers, homemakers, and time management professionals. In this book they share their secrets with us.

Busy is as busy does, but none of that busyness has anything on the Jewish woman of today. Never before in the history of Judaism has the Orthodox woman been called on to do so much for so many with so little at the same time. How can one person possibly manage her children, her husband, and her parents, along with the job that is needed to pay for everything? Pnina Baim has researched countless experts, tested (on herself) many theories, and found the best possible solutions to every situation, ranging from preparing for a job interview, staying healthy, raising children, to making Pesach simultaneously. This concise book will be a valuable asset to any homemaker in their quest to handling their myriad duties with dignity and enough energy left over to actually enjoy the home that they've created. Although this book was written with the Orthodox woman in mind, it is written in an accessible manner so that anyone who is interested in setting up a Jewish home can easily follow along. A glossary of terms is provided at the end of the book.

Filled with practical advice as well as history, Blu Greenberg's book is a comprehensive guide to the joys and complexities of running a modern Jewish home. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household is a modern, comprehensive guide covering virtually every aspect of Jewish home life. It provides practical advice on how to manage a Jewish home in the traditional way and offers fascinating accounts of the history behind the tradition. In a warm, personal style, Blu Greenberg shows that, contrary to popular belief, the home, and not the synagogue, is the most important institution in Jewish life. Divided into three large sections—"The Jewish Way," "Special Stages of Life," and "Celebration and Remembering"—this book educates the uninitiated and reminds the already observant Jew of how Judaism approaches daily life. Topics include prayer, dress, holidays, food preparation, marriage, birth, death, parenthood, and many others. This description of the modern-yet-traditional Jewish household will earn special regard among the many American Jews who are re-exploring their ties to Jewish tradition. Such Jews will find this book a flexible guide that provides a knowledge of the requirements of traditional Judaism without advocating immediate and complete compliance. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household will also appeal to observant Jews, providing them with helpful tips on how to manage their homes and special insights into the most minute details and procedures in a traditional household. Herself a traditional Jew, Blu Greenberg is nevertheless quite sympathetic to feminist views on the role of women in Jewish observance. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household therefore speaks intimately to women who are struggling to reconcile their identities as modern women with their commitments to traditional Judaism.

This book deals with the experience and action of Jewish women in the new Jewish settlement in Palestine (the Yishuv) during the period of Zionist immigration to Palestine, from the last two decades of the nineteenth century until 1948. The wide range of topics concern the experience of East European immigrant women as well as that of traditional Yemenite women, the creative and radical action of the socialist pioneers of the labor movement as well as the liberal feminism of the middle-class women. Though based on scholarly research, this book brings forth women's voices through their private and public writing.