Prayers & Meditations for Friday Evening: Jewish Religious Writings with Gender-Neutral & All-Embracing Translation & Commentary

The author/editor, H. G. Gerjuoy, Ph.D. is a member of Kehilat Chaverim, a Jewish congregation that has neither a rabbi nor a synagogue. Members voluntarily provide all congregational functions including prayer services, community outreach, and preparing young persons for bar- or bat-mitzvah. ＂Prayers and Meditations for Friday Evening＂ was prompted by Dr. Gerjuoy’s participation in a committee that rewrote the congregations’s prayerbook. While a tenured professor at the State University of New York at Albany, Dr. Gerjuoy was a member of the advisory board for the Judaic Studies Department, assisted with selection of a Judaic Studies chairperson, and assisted with evaluation of Hebrew language instruction. He has also studied the role of vegetarianism in Jewish tradition, taught Sunday School classes for an orthodox Jewish congregation, and published in multiple fields, including psychology, poetry, and science fiction He is currently readying for publication a novel, set in an orthodox Jewish community, that recreates in a contemporary setting the events of the classic Yiddish play, ＂The Dybbuk.＂