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The Everything Judaism Book: A Complete Primer to the Jewish Faith-From Holidays and Rituals to Traditions and Culture

Richard D. BankPublisher: Adams Media CorporationTable of Contents –IntroductionChapter 1: What Is Judaism?Chapter 2: The Branches of JudaismChapter 3: Spirituality in JudaismChapter 4: The Languages of JudaismChapter 5: Judaism’s Holy TextsChapter 6: Living in Accordance with the LawChapter 7: The Place of Prayer in JudaismChapter 8: Judaica: Religious Objects and AttireChapter 9: The SabbathChapter 10: Rosh Hashanah and Yom KippurChapter ...

The Everything Jewish Wedding Book, 2nd Edition

Rabbi Hyim ShafnerPublisher: Adams Media CorporationFrom reciting the Kiddush (sanctification prayer) to building the chuppah (wedding canopy), the details of a Jewish wedding can be overwhelming! This wedding guide helps newlyweds understand tradition and plan a wedding they’ll cherish forever. Written by a rabbi who has performed many weddings, this informative guide will help people navigate: the Judaic concept of ...

The Ethiopian Jews of Israel: Personal Stories of Life in the Promised Land

Ilan Ossendryver, Len LyonsPublisher: Jewish LightsIn 1977 there were about one hundred Ethiopian Jews in Israel; now there are more than one hundred thousand. Their courageous exodus from their native land and their mass immigration to Israel is a unique historical event.This beautiful and touching book is the first one to recount in captivating photographs and candid interviews the profound ...

The Eternal Journey : Meditations of the Jewish Year

In this series of essays organized around the Jewish calendar, Jonathan Wittenberg engages with moral and theological questions — the relationship between God and the Holocaust, humanity’s responsibility for its actions, the transience of life — in language that is both precise and passionate. His meditations on the wonders of the natural world and the impact of intergenerational memory invite ...

The Essential Scoop on Raising Modern Jewish

Sharon Duke EstroffPublisher: Broadway BooksHow do you help your child choose between mandatory baseball practice and Hebrew school? How can you plan a birthday party (not to mention bar or bat mitzvah party!) for your child without sacrificing your values, sanity, and pocketbook? How can you keep peace on the homework homefront? And how do you deal with Santa envy–let ...

The Essential Book of Jewish Festival Cooking: 200 Seasonal Holiday Recipes and Their Traditions

Miriyam Glazer, Phyllis GlazerPublisher: Harper CollinsDeeply rooted in ancient rituals, the seasonal rhythms of the land of Israel, and biblical commandments, the Jewish holidays mark a time for Jews around the world to reconnect with their spiritual lives, celebrate their history, and enjoy tasty foods laden with symbolic meaning. With Phyllis and Miriyam Glazer’s The Essential Book of Jewish Festival ...

The English Assassin

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva, comes a taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland’s shameful WWII record of profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva’s extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national bestseller lists. “Briskly suspenseful, tightly constructed…reminiscent of John le Carre’s The Spy ...

The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak

Five notebooks from the Lodz Gettoby Dawid SierakowiakEdited by Alan AdelsonTranslated by: Kamil TurowskiAfter the liberation of the Lodz Ghetto, Dawid Sierakowial’s notebooks were found stacked on a cookstove, ready to be burned for heat. Young Sierakowiak was one of more than 60,000 Jews who perished in that notorious urban slave camp, a man-made hell which was the longest surviving concentration ...

The Covenant

Naomi RagenPublisher: St. Martin’sLiving in terror-torn Jerusalem, Elise Margulies constantly fears for the safety of her loved ones. Confined to bedrest during a difficult pregnancy, she happily awaits the return of her husband and little girl from a ballet recital, only to find that her worst fears have finally been realized. All seems lost until a phone call to her ...

The County of Birches: Stories

Judith KalmanPublisher: St. Martin’sThe County of Birches is a resonant collection of linked stories told from the perspective of a child of Holocaust survivors. Our narrator is a young girl without a country: Fleeing the vineyards outside of Budapest with her family in 1956, Dana Weisz finds herself first in London and then in a suburb of Montreal. Her parents, ...

The Contemporary Torah – A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation

David E.S. Stein (editor)Publisher: JPSConsulting editors: Carol L. Meyers, Adele Berlin, and Ellen Frankel“Far from pandering to contemporary tastes at the expense of the ancient text of the Hebrew Bible, revising editor David Stein and his co-workers have exhaustively mined the ancient Near Eastern world for literary examples that help us better understand the role gender played more than three ...

The Confessor

Daniel SilvaPublisher: PenguinIn Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated. In Venice, Mossad agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon receives the news, puts down his brushes, and leaves immediately. And at the Vatican, the new pope vows to uncover the truth about the church’s response to the Holocaust-while a powerful cardinal plots his next move.Now, as Allon follows a trail of ...

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