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Jewish Themes in Star Trek -- exactly what it says! My long-awaited journey into the Jewish future! (Not a joke book, this is a serious commentary, although it is reader-friendly and does contain some humor.) Available now in hardcover, paperback and download.   Scroll down to order.


Also now in print:

Eight Candles of Consciousness: Essays on Jewish Nonviolence -- Over four decades ago, I began expressing concern about the shift away from the "miracle of the oil" toward glorifying the "victory of the Maccabees" in how we tell the Hanukkah story. This book contains my best essays on that subject, plus reprints of many of my published articles, poems, and thoughts on peace, civil rights, ecology and more. This book brings together my best anti-war material over the last 40+ years. Paperback and download. Scroll down to order!


Coming soon:

Full-color edition of 49 gates of Light: Kabbalistic Meditations for Counting the Omer. This NEW edition will combine the best of the out-of-print 1987 edition with the color diagrams of the old DOS ebook edition -- to be offered now in a download and maybe a paperback. Watch for it hopefully in 2010!


Are Holocaust Victims Returning? and other Collected Reincarnation Essays -- anthology of reprints of my articles from the past 20 years on reincarnation, Jewish spirituality, etc. Will be offered in paperback. (And YES, I am the same rabbi who wrote three previous books on reincarnation: Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust (1992); From Ashes to Healing: Mystical Encounters with the Holocaust (1996); and Jewish Tales of Reincarnation (2000). Those are still in print with commercial publishers, so I cannot sell them on Lulu, but you can find them on Amazon and elsewhere.)


Notes from a Jewish Naturalist -- my next work-in-progress. Photos and insights about animals and nature, woven with Jewish stories and traditions. A full-color coffee table book.

Jewish Themes in Star Trek

Jewish Themes in Star TrekJewish Themes in Star Trek (book)

Download: $5.00

Hardcover Print: $30.00

Rabbi Gershom takes you where no rabbi has gone before! You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy this well-researched and reader-friendly journey into Jewish themes, actors, writers, in-jokes and subtexts in the Star Trek Universe. Inspired by a class he taught at the Minneapolis Talmud Torah, the book explores such things as: The Jewish origin of the Vulcan salute; How Vulcan culture is based on rabbinical Judaism; "Who is a Jew" among Trek characters in episodes, movies and the novels; How Talmudic logic helped expand the Star Trek universe; Why Ferengi values are NOT Jewish values -- and much more!
Jewish Themes in Star Trek

Jewish Themes in Star TrekJewish Themes in Star Trek (book)

Print: $16.99

Download: $5.00

Rabbi Gershom takes you where no rabbi has gone before! You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy this well-researched and reader-friendly journey into Jewish themes, actors, writers, in-jokes and subtexts in the Star Trek Universe. Inspired by a class he taught at the Minneapolis Talmud Torah, the book explores such things as: The Jewish origin of the Vulcan salute; How Vulcan culture is based on rabbinical Judaism; "Who is a Jew" among Trek characters in episodes, movies and the novels; How Talmudic logic helped expand the Star Trek universe; Why Ferengi values are NOT Jewish values -- and much more!
Eight Candles of Consciousness: Essays on Jewish Nonviolence

Eight Candles of Consciousness: Essays on Jewish NonviolenceEight Candles of Consciousness: Essays on Jewish Nonviolence (book)

Print: $11.99

Download: $3.00

Rabbi Yonassan Gershom, vegetarian and lifelong pacifist, shares his best anti-war articles, thoughts, poems and memories from 40 years of peace activism. Includes his nonviolent Hanukkah service, "Eight Candles of Consciousness"; his anti-Kahane protest actions in the 1980s; essays on ecology and Judaism; why he supports gay rights; how he became a vegetarian; thoughts, essays, stories, prayers, anecdotes and quotes on peace. A fascinating retrospective, woven together in a personal style that combines good scholarship with easy reading. Accessible to both Jews and Gentiles, this anthology will forever change your ideas about Judaism and nonviolence.
Eight Candles of Consciousness: Essays on Jewish Nonviolence (HC)

Eight Candles of Consciousness: Essays on Jewish Nonviolence (HC)Eight Candles of Consciousness: Essays on Jewish Nonviolence (HC) (book)

Download: $3.00

Hardcover Print: $18.00

Rabbi Yonassan Gershom, vegetarian and lifelong pacifist, shares his best anti-war articles, thoughts, poems and memories from 40 years of peace activism. Includes his nonviolent Hanukkah service, "Eight Candles of Consciousness"; his anti-Kahane protest actions in the 1980s; essays on ecology and Judaism; why he supports gay rights; how he became a vegetarian; thoughts, essays, stories, prayers, anecdotes and quotes on peace. A fascinating retrospective, woven together in a personal style that combines good scholarship with easy reading. Accessible to both Jews and Gentiles, this anthology will forever change your ideas about Judaism and nonviolence.