Fred Reiss, EdD

Jewish Theology in Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief,  edited by Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove, PhD. Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT;  ISBN 978-1-58023-413-9 ©2010, $24.95, p. 224 plus notes and suggestions for further reading. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California —Jewish Theology in Our Time is a collection […]

Finding Words by Merle Feld, URJ Press, New York; ISBN 978-0-8074-1162-9, ©2010, $14.95,  86 pages. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Finding Words by Merle Feld, an award-winning author and playwright, is a book of poetry that pulls at the heartstrings. Feld’s poetry expresses her most intimate feelings on the significance of family and

God’s Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine by Michael Largo, HarperCollins Publishers, New York;  ISBN 978-0-06-173284-3, ©2010, $16.99, p. 536 plus appendix. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –By-and-large, encyclopedias are boring to read. As the old saw goes, their plot

By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The Catholic Church has over 10,000 saints and “beati,” or blessed on the roster. Does it really make a difference if there is one more? The answer is probably not for most rank-and-file Catholics. They already have three  saints per day from among whom they can choose for

Six Million Crucifixions: How Christians Teachings About Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust by Gabriel Wilensky, Qwerty Publishers, San Diego, CA. ISBN 978-0-984-33467-4, ©2010, $27.95, p. 309, plus appendices. Available in Kindle edition  By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Twenty-two of the highest ranking Nazi Party officials were tried from November 20, 1945 to October 1,