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What’s Cooking – A Unique Collection of Kosher Recipes
Publisher: Morris Cook BooksAs the recipes in these pages you begin to review, We’re sure you’ll find something just right for you. Whether for a special occasion or a family meal, to the discriminating palate these dishes will appeal. We’ve tried and tested each recipe in this book, to be certain that nothing will fail when you cook. Planning your ...
Read MoreWhat’s Bothering Rashi? Vayikra
A Guide to In-Depth Analysis of his Torah Commentaryby Dr. Avigdor BonchekPart of the ‘What’s Bothering Rashi?’ series.The study of Rashi, like all of Torah learning requires serious effort. There is great satisfaction in mastering Rashi’s commentary. This notable work enables the reader to meet the intellectual and spiritual challenge of learning Rashi, to appreciate Rashi’s unique style and language ...
Read MoreWhat’s Bothering Rashi? Megillas Esther
Avigdor BonchekPublisher: FeldheimThe multi-faceted words of Rashi contain eye-opening insights into the Book of Esther. In this unique volume, the author takes the reader on a journey deep into the words of Rashi, to uncover the wisdom and truths they contain. In his original, step-by-step style, the author-together with the reader-uncovers each precious word of Rashi’s commentary, revealing the layers ...
Read MoreWhat You Will See Inside a Synagogue
by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman and Dr. Ron WolfsonIllustrated by: Bill AronAges 6 & up An illustrated book designed to show children ages 6 and up the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of a traditional synagogue, Jewish celebrations, and rituals. Visual and informative, What You Will See Inside a Synagogue features full page photographs and concise descriptions of what is happening, the ...
Read MoreWhat You Will See Inside: A Synagogue
What You Will See Inside a Synagogue will:}}-Satisfy kids’-and adults’-curiosity about what goes on in synagogues attended by their friends, broadening awareness of other faiths at an important age when opinions and prejudices can first form}}- Provide Jewish children with a deeper understanding of the practices of their own religious tradition}}- Give children the opportunity to ask questions, making them ...
Read MoreWhat Queen Esther Knew
Business Strategies from a Biblical Sageby Connie Glaser and Barbara SmalleyThe story of Queen Esther, the orphan girl who became Queen of Persia and saved her people, has inspired millions and is the focus of a joyful celebration of thanksgivingbut there’s more to Esther’s story than meets the eye. Connie Glaser and Barbara Steinberg Smalley found something remarkableEsther’s tale contains ...
Read MoreWhat It Means to Be Jewish: The Voices of Our Heritage
Ina L. Yalof, Ina AbramsPublisher: St. Martin’sAbrams, a writer on medical subjects, here offers a bracing and fascinating anthology that includes writers as various as Alan Dershowitz, Anita Diamant, Golda Meir, and George Washington on the various meanings of the Jewish experience in America. By no means do these writers speak with a single voice but then dialog is a ...
Read MoreWhat Israel Means to Me: By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists
Alan Dershowitz (editor)Publisher: WileyAs one of Israel’s staunchest supporters and most ardent defenders, Alan Dershowitz has long understood that the deep emotional pull of this ancient land and youthful state, while shared by so many, has distinct and personal meanings for each of us. What Israel Means to Me is not so much a book as a collection of love ...
Read MoreWhat I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933
Joseph Roth, Michael Bienert, Michael Hofmann (translator)Publisher: W.W. Norton & CompanyFinally available in English, the dizzying world of 1920s Berlin as seen by one of its greatest journalistic eyewitnesses.In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political essays that influenced ...
Read MoreWedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman
Farideh GoldinPublisher: Brandeis University PressAn unflinching personal story of family, religion, and community that shows the horror of growing up in the shadow of religious fundamentalism.Farideh Goldin was born to her fifteen-year-old mother in 1953 and into a Jewish community living in an increasingly hostile Islamic state—prerevolutionary Iran. This memoir is Goldin’s passionate and painful account of her childhood in ...
Read MoreWar Within: A Novel of the Civil War, The
Carol MatasPublisher: Simon & SchusterHolly Springs, Mississippi, 1862:The Green family owns a general store in this small Southern town where they have lived for many years.But ever since the Union army occupied her beloved town, Hannah Green has been furious. Her sister, Joanna, has fallen in love with Captain Mazer of the Union — the same Union that has been ...
Read MoreWandering Stars
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of ‘Wandering Stars’by Sholem AleichemTranslated by: Aliza ShevrinSholem Aleichem’s sprawling love story set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater, this literary classic is presented in a vibrant new translation.In a Russian shtetl at the end of the 19th century, Reisel, a poor girl, and Leibel, a rich boy, run away with a ...
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