Fred Reiss, EdD

Fred Reiss, Ed.D

Fred Reiss is a retired educator and a freelance  writer based in Winchester, California.

His books, available on Amazon, include:

* Public Education in Camden, N.J.: From Inception to Integration

* Reclaiming the Messiah

* Sepher Yetzirah: The Book that Started Kabbalah

* The Comprehensive Jewish and Civil Calendars: 2001-2240.

* The Jewish Calendar: History and Inner Workings

* The Standard Guide to the Jewish and Civil Calendars: A Parallel Jewish and Civil Calendar from 1899 to 2050 With Parashiyyot and Haftarot and Candle-Lighting Times for Selected Cities 

Book examines the images Jews have of their own bodies

The Jewish Body by Melvin Konner, Nextbook, New York; ISBN 978-0-8052-4236-2, $22.00, 255 pages * By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California–The Jewish people are obsessed with the body. While the Sumerians, Egyptians, Canaanites, and others prayed and sacrificed to idols, the embodiment of their gods, the Hebrews announced to the world that God is invisible. […]

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle East

'The God Virus' analyzes religion from disapproving standpoint

The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture by Darrel W. Ray, Ed.D., IPC Press, Bonner Springs, Kansas, ISBN 978-0-9709505-1-2, $15.95, 234 pages. Reviewed by Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–In the mid-1970, Richard Dawkins shook up the fields of biology and genetics with his book, The Selfish Gene. In this work, Dawkins argues

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In hands of extremists, Koran justifies Ft. Hood massacre

The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran by Robert Spencer, Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC ISBN 978-1-59698-104-1, 2009, $19.95, p. 232 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WESTMINSTER, California–President George W. Bush, in December 2006, issued greetings to the Muslim world on the occasion of the Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha, which commemorates both the Hajj and Abraham’s

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Fred Reiss, EdD, San Diego Calendar, USA