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The Righteous

Publisher: Henry HoltThe Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust. Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Sir Martin Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust.According to Jewish tradition, “Whoever saves one life, it is as if he saved the entire world.” Non-Jews who helped save Jewish lives during World War II ...

The Rebbe’s Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch

Sue FishkoffPublisher: Schocken Books“Excuse me, are you Jewish?” With these words, the relentlessly cheerful, ideologically driven emissaries of Chabad-Lubavitch approach perfect strangers on street corners throughout the world in their ongoing efforts to persuade their fellow Jews to live religiously observant lives. In The Rebbe’s Army, award-winning journalist Sue Fishkoff gives us the first behind-the-scenes look at this small Brooklyn-based ...

The RCA Lifecycle Madrikh

by Rabbi Reuven P. BulkaA life-cycle handbook for the rabbi. Compact and focused. The categories of this volume are Baby Naming for a girl, Berit, Pidyon HaBen, Adoption, Conversion, Bat Mitzvah, Pre-Nuptial and Arbitration Agreements, Tenaim, Marriage and Sheva Berakhot, Visiting the Sick, Changing of Name, Dying, the Funeral, Birkat HaMazon in the House of Mourning, and Dedicating the Memoral ...

The Rabbi’s Wife : The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life

Shuly Rubin SchwartzPublisher: NYU Press“Schwartz adds a new and important dimension to the history of American Judaism, to the history of American women, and to the history of American religion. She has introduced a new set of actors to the historic drama of religion in America.” -Hasia R. Diner, author of The Jews of the United States, 1654-2000“This is the ...

The Rabbi’s Cat

The preeminent work by one of Franceâ€™s most celebrated young comic artists, The Rabbiâ€™s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat â€” a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and ...

The Rabbi and the Hit Man: A True Tale of Murder, Passion, and the Shattered Faith of a Congregation

Arthur J. MagidaPublisher: Harper CollinsOn the evening of November 1, 1994, Rabbi Fred Neulander returned home to find his wife, Carol, facedown on the living room floor, blood everywhere. He called for help, but it was too late. Two trials and eight years later, the founder of what had become the largest reform synagogue in southern New Jersey was convicted ...

The Questions Asked Haggadah

Rabbi FinkPublisher: Israel Book ShopRabbi Fink’s haggadah brings the Pesach story to an attainable level for each person. Use it for yourself and enjoy or use it as a springboard to discuss things with your son on this night of “v’higgadita l’vincha”. Clear print and easy understanding make this a great seder companion. A Hebrew/ English translation of the Passover ...

The Practical Guide to Kashrus

Rabbi Shaul WagschalPublisher: Judaica PressThe laws of kashrus are central to Jewish life and encompass every aspect of food preparation and handling. The laws are also detailed and numerous, yielding a multitude of questions and concerns. In a clear and concise manner, Rabbi Wagschal addresses all of the laws pertaining to kashrus in a Jewish home, enabling every Jewish family ...

The Portable Jewish Mother: Guilt, Food, And … When Are You Giving Me Grandchildren

Laurie RozakisPublisher: Adams Media CorporationLately, have you not felt enough guilt? Forgotten to worry if you’re getting too thin? Or heard too few complaints about your being single? Well then, here you go! All the kvetch-ing and moaning only a Jewish mother could provide.Laurie Rozakis brings you the good, the bad, and the guilt with The Portable Jewish Mother. Serving ...

The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism

David I. KertzerPublisher: KnopfA groundbreaking historical study based on documents previously locked in the Vatican’s secret archives: The Popes Against the Jews graphically shows how the Catholic Church helped make the Holocaust possible.Pope John Paul II, as part of his effort to improve Catholic-Jewish relations, has himself called for a clear-eyed historical investigation into any possible link be-tween the Church ...

The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Will Eisner, Umberto EcoPublisher: W.W. Norton & CompanyA work more disturbing than fiction from “the father of graphic novels” (New York Times).Will Eisner, the great American master of comics, has undertaken what he regards as his most powerful work yet. The Plot examines the outrageous fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the actual ...

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

Wladyslaw SzpilmanPublisher: PicadorNamed one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious prize—the Palme d’Or.On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the ...

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