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Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Dispora
James R. RossPublisher: Riverhead BooksMany modern Jews are searching for a way back to their religious roots-and a better understanding of their Jewish identity. In Fragile Branches, James R. Ross blazes a path into the heart of the Jewish experience, raising provocative questions about what it means to be Jewish in today’s world. As he describes isolated Jewish communities in ...
Read MoreFor Goodness’ Sake: Inspirational True Stories
One small act of goodness can change the world, and this inspiring book can change your whole outlook! This collection of true, wonderful stories introduces a host of people-from rabbis and students to butchers and businessmen-all of whom embrace the opportunity to do chesed. Learn what effect a friendly “Good morning” can have on a bus driver. Find out why ...
Read MoreFolding Handle Gragger – Plastic
Plastic graggers with fun Purim designs. Designs and shapes vary. Handle folds flat. Shapes and colors vary.This item is sold by:Note: Judaism.com is the longest established Jewish book and Judaica store on the Internet!Direct link: http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?type=jdckids&type=shabbat&etn=DBEGBReaders found more information by searching for:plastic folding handles (1)plastic graggers bulk (1)You might also like:Purim Metal Graggers3 Clapping Hands GraggersBulk Purim Graggers: MordechaiBulk Purim Graggers: JerusalemBar Mitzvah ...
Read MoreFloating Takes Faith: Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
We are taught to study, to learn, and to let ourselves grow Jewishly. But where does being the “people of the book” get us in the real world? }}David Wolpe’s collection of essays responds to this question by exploring how Jewish values, such as scholarship and compassion, together with Jewish practice, enhance an individual’s private and public life. How does ...
Read MoreFlares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust
Anita BrostoffPublisher: Oxford University PressRanging from snapshots of pre-Holocaust life to survival in disguise and portraits of “the virtuous and the vicious,” 92 vignettes by Holocaust survivors who participated in writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh are gathered in Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust, edited by Anita Brostoff, a retired Carnegie-Mellon University professor, with ...
Read MoreFixer, The by Bernard Malamud
Bernard MalamudYakov Bok, the “fixer” in Bernard Malamud’s 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is an impoverished Jewish handyman in pre-Revolutionary Russia who finds himself the victim of a blood libel charge. He is accused of killing a Christian child before Passover to obtain the blood his accusers believed Jews needed to make matzah. During his three anguishing years in prison awaiting ...
Read MoreFive Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (The Schocken
Everett Fox, Schwebel (illustrator)Widely acclaimed by Bible scholars and theologians of every denomination, Everett Fox’s masterful translation re-creates the echoes, allusions, alliterations, and wordplays of the Hebrew original. Together with its extensive commentary and illuminating notes, this unique translation draws the reader closer to the authentic living voice of the Bible.SoftcoverISBN:0805211195Based on the Buber-Rosenzweig translation of the Hebrew Bible, completed ...
Read MoreFirst Steps in Hebrew Prayer
Publisher: Hebrew WorldLearn Jewish prayer for beginners with the friendliest prayer tutorial. In addition to the book, hear every prayer and blessing on the enclosed CD. See text in English, Hebrew and transliteration.This best-seller beautiful book provides an easy and pleasant start with the first steps of Jewish prayer, bringing to you the most important prayers and blessings. It features ...
Read MoreFireflies in the Dark
The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezinby Susan Goldman RubinAges 8-11 A nonfiction account of Terezin were a little known heroine, who tried valiantly to protect children from the horrors of the concentration camp. More than a biography of Dicker-Brandeis’ life, it offers the facts about Adolf Hitler and his attempt to exterminate the Jews in all of ...
Read MoreFinding Each Other in Judaism
Meditations on the Rites of Passage from Birth to Immortalityby Harold M. SchulweisThis book opens each section of the rites of passage with rabbinic and philosophic interpretation, folkloristic parables and insights. These point out the theological rationale and the ethical implications of the rites of passage. The task is to repair the rupture between act and purpose, between the private ...
Read MoreFinding Each Other in Judaism
Rabbi Harold SchulweisPublisher: UAHC PressDrawing from both traditional and contemporary Jewish sources, this book explores Jewish life-cycle passages such as birth, bar/bat mitzvah, conversion, marriage, illness, and the end of life.Using profound insights, meditations and poetry on the events and rites that frame Jewish life, Rabbi Schulweis provides insight and a greater sense of the meaning behind these rites of ...
Read MoreFilling Words with Light: Hasidic and Mystical Reflections on Jewish Prayer
Lawrence Kushner, Nehemia PolenPublisher: Jewish LightsBreathe New Life into Your Prayer with the Wisdom of Kabbalah and the Hasidic MastersJewish mystics teach that every word a person utters in prayer should radiate light. Even the letters of the words of prayer carry sparks of the Divine that yearn to join together in holiness.In this inspiring spiritual companion, Reform rabbi Lawrence ...
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