Jewish Themes in Star Trek

Jewish Themes in Star Trek: Where no rabbi has gone before!

SummaryEdit

Blurb

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!

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Table of contentsEdit

• Chapter 1: In the Beginning...
• Chapter 2: Great Bird of the Galaxy
• Chapter 3: Who are the Jews?
• Chapter 4: Live Long and Prosper
• Chapter 5: Pointed Ears and Jewish Noses
• Chapter 6: Patterns of Force
• Chapter 7: Vulcans, Romulans, and Israelis
• Chapter 8: The Great Triad – Kirk, Spock, and McCoy
• Chapter 9: From Generation to Generation
• Chapter 10: Between Two Worlds
• Chapter 11: Ferengis are Us??
• Chapter 12: Assimilate This!!
• Chapter 13: The God Thing
• Chapter 14: The Good and Evil Within
• Chapter 15: The Quest for Eden
• Conclusion: The Journey Continues
• Appendix A: Vulcan's Forge and Well of Souls
• Appendix B: The Torah of Star Trek
• Appendix C: Jewish References in TOS Trek