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Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism
by Douglas Rushkoff  Publisher Comments Acclaimed writer and thinker Douglas Rushkoff, author of Ecstasy Club and Coercion, has written perhaps the most important — and controversial — book on Judaism in a generation. As the religion stands on the brink of becoming irrelevant to the...
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God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbi
by Jamie Korngold Publisher Comments Rabbi Jamie Korngold has always loved the outdoors. Whether it's hiking, running, or just sitting by a stream, she finds her spirituality and Judaism thrive most in the wilderness, the place where her ancestors first met with God. In 2001, Korngold...
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We Plan, God Laughs: 10 Steps to Finding Your Divine Path When Life Is Not Turning Out Like You Wanted
by Sherre Hirsch Publisher Comments The old Yiddish proverb, “We plan, God laughs,” expresses a truth everyone can relate to. At every stage of life we make plans, setting out where we want to go and imagining what we will be like when we have “arrived.” But things...
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The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah
by Publisher Comments This study is concerned both with the richly imagined world of kabbalistic myth concerning the sabbath as it developed from the late twelfth century to the early sixteenth century and with its activation in religious life via ritual. First published in...
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Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess
by Hannah Arendt Publisher Comments For this complete critical edition, Liliane Weissberg reconstructs the notes Arendt planned for the book but never fully executed. She reveals the extent to which Arendt wove the biography largely from the words of Rahel and her contemporaries. In her...
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God's To-Do List: 103 Ways to Be an Angel and Do God's Work on Earth
by Ron Wolfson Publisher Comments All human beings are made in the image of God. But for what purpose were you made? The biblical answer is clear: you are to imitate God in order to bring God's presence into the world. Jewish tradition calls this ?repairing the world; ? Christianity...
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Handbook of Hebrew Calligraphy
by Cara G. Marks Publisher Comments This detailed guide clearly describes every aspect of this beautiful art form....
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Kosher Living: It's More Than Just the Food
by Ron Isaacs Publisher Comments "Kosher Living is an essential guide to Jewish ethics and morality for your everyday life. Rabbi Ron Isaacs offers a warm, humorous, and eminently useful book that shows what is really kosher, proper, and appropriate in all aspects of our lives. "Kosher...
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The Way Into Jewish Prayer (Way Into--)
by Lawrence A. Hoffman Publisher Comments An accessible introduction to the reasons for and ways of Jewish prayer....
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The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine
by Mitchell B Hart Publisher Comments The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Such a radically different interpretation, by scholars and...
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Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America
by Mark Oppenheimer Publisher Comments A striking look at the Jewish rite-and at American Jews in all their diversity Since its emergence here a century ago, the bar or bat mitzvah has become a distinctively American rite of passage, so much so that, in certain suburbs today, gentile...
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The Wisdom of Maimonides: The Life and Writings of the Jewish Sage
by Edward Hoffman Synopsis Moses Maimonides is a towering figure in Judaism. Best known as the author of The Guide for the Perplexed, he was a rabbi, philosopher, and physician in Spain and Egypt in the twelfth century. His commentaries and writings on ethics and law profoundly...
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Sometimes You Are What You Wear!
by Eliyahu Safran Publisher Comments Rabbi Safran's compelling book about the need to incorporate the traditional view of modesty if we are to save our children from the superficiality, the decadence and the damaging influences of our modern, progressive society, opens with a simple...
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Finding God: Ten Jewish Responses
by Rifat Sonsino Publisher Comments Covers 4,000 years of Jewish thought and how Jews have spoken of God throughout history. Ten distinct Jewish theological perspectives on belief help readers discover that no single interpretation accurately conceptualizes the Jewish God....
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Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
by John M. Efron Publisher Comments By the late nineteenth century, physical anthropologists were engaged in debates about the ""Jewish Racial Question,"" asking whether there was a biological basis for Jewish distinctiveness and social development. This fascinating book describes for the...
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Judaism, Human Rights, and Human Values
by Lenn E Goodman Publisher Comments Following on the heels of his critically acclaimed God of Abraham (Oxford, 1996), Lenn E. Goodman here focuses on rights, their grounding in the deserts of beings, and the dignity of persons. In an incisive contemporary dialogue between reason and...
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The Jewish Expression
by Judah Goldin Publisher Comments In this classic collection, leading modern scholars examine and interpret 3,000 years of Jewish literature and history. The essays study the actions and institutions of the Jewish people as well as their literary tradition. Included are essays on...
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New American Haggadah : Haggadah Shel Pesah (98 Edition)
by Kaplan Publisher Comments Whether at a model seder, a community seder, or a family seder, The New American Haggadah will inspire and delight participants of all ages. First developed as The New Haggadah, this Passover classic has been revised to reflect the experiences of our...
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Minding the Temple of the Soul: Balancing Body, Mind and Spirit Through Traditional Jewish Prayer, Movement and Meditation
by Tamar Frankiel Publisher Comments Relying on kabbalistic teachings and other Jewish traditions, simple exercises and movements help our bodies "understand" prayer, and show how the body's energy centers correspond to the kabbalistic concept of the ten divine "rays of light, " the sefirot....
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Days of Purpose Days of Fulfillment
by Cheryl Gunsher Publisher Comments In Jewish tradition instructive stories and teachings of moral conduct, discipline and practice are called musar. In Days of Purpose - Days of Fulfillment, Cheryl Gunsher follows the musar tradition, sharing her personal stories of spiritual growth and...
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