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American efforts to restrict immigration from 1850¿s to the xenophobic US Immigration Act of 1923, which essentially stopped Immigration the US until post World War II. The reader sees the rise of xenophobic groups: Ku Klux Klan, Eugenics movement, Numerous Xenophobic groups. Subject matter includes: Nativism; The First Jewish Immigrants to the United States; German-Jewish Immigration ¿ 1820-1880; Immigration Act of 1875; The Great Russian Jewish Immigration in 1881-1914; Pahlen Commission in 1894; Hepburn Congressional investigation, 1890; The Immigration Act of 1891; Anti-German Antipathy; Anti-Catholic Antipathy; Italian American Bias; Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907; The Immigration Act of 1907; 1911 Congressional Testimony; Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1921; Eugenics Movement; Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1924; Effects of Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1924.

Being a Jew in the 21st Century presents new challenges. Jews are part of a globalised world. We are no longer a ghettoised people, unless we choose to self-impose a ghetto. Thus we are challenged with how to properly bring our Jewish ethics and values to bear on our interaction with a world full of different peoples. As Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner writes in her foreword, ¿Rabbi Goldsmith knows that the task of Jews is to improve, heal, transform the world and he calls on us to play our part in this work, human work, Jewish work, God's work.¿ Thirty-Six Words is a collection of short pieces drawn from the author's over twenty years of preaching and writing as a Reform Rabbi. They consider Jewish ethics, global concern, memory and texts, ritual, society and thought for Jews who embrace today's world. The book includes an index to all the Jewish texts cited, together with an extensive glossary for the reader who needs help with Jewish terminology. It is intended for the general reader, Jewish or not, who wants a book of thinking around 21st Century Judaism which can be read meaningfully in short bursts. * Cover illustration: Miriam Goldsmith.

Experiences of the divine, the sacred, and the holy, in nature and in the everyday unfolding of life, have inspired poets and spiritual seekers throughout the ages. Such poetic distillations, preserved in Jewish sacred literature in the Psalms, the lyrically erotic Song of Songs, the mystical visions of the prophets, and other ancient writings, form the bedrock of the traditional Jewish prayer liturgy. They give us tastes of the essence of religious experience, which Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel has described as "radical amazement" ¿ sheer wonder at the astonishing variety, beauty, awesomeness, ugliness, and fearsomeness of this cosmos. In Unbounded Heart Rabbi Diane Elliot shares encounters with traditional Jewish liturgy and sacred text, as well as with life's ordinary moments, seen through the lens of wonder and awe. Here each prayer becomes a poem, each poem a prayer meant to awaken eyes and ears, hearts and hands to "thisness," the mysterious and sacred Presence that radiates through all existence.

This penning brings to life an overlooked subject in contemporary Judaism ¿ how did the ancient Jewish tradition, rooted in the Temple rituals transform itself after the Destruction of the Second Temple. As you will find, this transformation did not occur immediately nor did the Rabbi¿s automatically accede to leadership. Indeed, competing sects of the Israelite religion vied for a leadership role. To understand, I have described the internecine fighting; the compromises of transforming the Jewish rites by including symbols of the Holy Temple; and its syncretization through the years. For one thousand years, the Israelites (Jews) worshipped in a Holy Space at the Temple in Jerusalem. Before the construction of the Temple ()there were two), the Holy of Holies, which contained the Law revealed to Moses and a small amount of manna), became the dwelling place for the Shechina (God¿s presence). Indeed, there was a cloud hovering over the holy of holies for the 40-year journey through the dessert and the years leading up to the construction of the First Temple.

Being able to find the humor in heartache, the transcendent in tragedy and the funny in folly is an ability that deserves more exercise from all of us. In this second collection of poems following the publication of The Sunset Years, Rabbi Bernstein-Goff shares some of his personal successes and failures in a world where truth is often elusive and deception is everywhere beginning with one¿s self. Thus Uncle Bernie humorously recalls the deception of an old family friend, while Jacob¿s Song reminds us that a biblical patriarch is not above using deception to get the blessing he wants to become. Poems like Russian Lullaby and The Meshugeneh explore how the avoidance of truth by the masking of personal pain can come back to haunt us, occasionally with a devastating finality. Many of the poems in this collection deal with family relationships and the bitter sweet realities that accompany the process of sharing our vulnerabilities and too often the failure to do so with those we love. Yet strangely enough, sometimes even failure creates opportunities for redemption. Finally, poems like The Shoe Box and Death Bed Daydream celebrate our living, our dying, and our death.