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Saying Kaddish
by Anita Diamant  Publisher Comments Anita Diamant's knowledge, sensitivity, and clarity have made her one of the most respected writers of guides to Jewish life. In Saying Kaddish, she shows how to make Judaism's time-honored rituals into personal, meaningful sources of comfort. Diamant...
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The Antiquities Of The Jews
by Flavius Josephus Publisher Comments 1. When Moses was taken away from among men, in the manner already described, and when all the solemnities belonging to the mourning for him were finished, and the sorrow for him was over, Joshua commanded the multitude to get themselves ready for an...
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Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls
by John J. Collins Publisher Comments The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls 50 years ago revealed Jewish apocalypticism that was before unknown. The scrolls chronicled life in an apocalyptic community, whose members believed that the end of the world was nearing. When the end did not occur...
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The complete idiot's guide to Jewish history and culture
by Benjamin Blech Publisher Comments You're no idiot, of course. You know that Judaism began with Abraham and that Moses led the children out of slavery in Egypt. But when it comes to knowing who Elijah, Esther, and Judah Maccabee were, and their significance to Judaism, you feel like you...
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The Year in Drashos
by Rabbi Avraham Steinberg Publisher Comments The drasha, or traditional sermon delivered during services, is a rabbi's primary means of conveying Torah ideology and inspiration to his congregants. Many a shulgoer has recounted how, in trying moments of life, the refrain of a rabbi's drasha echoing...
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The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual
by Kalman P. Bland Publisher Comments Conventional wisdom holds that Judaism is indifferent or even suspiciously hostile to the visual arts due to the Second Commandment's prohibition on creating "graven images," the dictates of monotheism, and historical happenstance. This intellectual...
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The Biblical Creation Narrative
by Martin Sicker Publisher Comments This study of the biblical creation narrative, and the wide variety of ways in which it has been interpreted over more than two millennia, is based on the thesis that, notwithstanding its mythopoeic presentation, the essential purpose of the biblical...
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Jewish Renewal: A Journey
by Rabbi Sholom Groesberg Publisher Comments In 1980, Sholom Groesberg changed his life's course. He resigned as dean of engineering at Widener University in order to pursue a career in the rabbinate. Accepted at the Academy for Jewish Religion, he was ordained in 1984. Ten years later Rabbi...
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(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought
by Zachary Braiterman Publisher Comments The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of...
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(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought
by Zachary Braiterman Publisher Comments The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of...
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Kosher for Everybody: The Complete Guide to Understanding, Shopping, Cooking, and Eating the Kosher Way
by Trudy Garfunkel Publisher Comments You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy the benefits of kosher food. In fact, of the millions of people who buy kosher products, only 8% do so for religious reasons. In Kosher for Everybody, the ultimate guide to the ever growing world of kosher foods...
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Abortion in Judaism
by Daniel Schiff Publisher Comments A unique Jewish legal history of abortion from earliest biblical references to the present day....
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The Shaltiel Manuscripts
by Moshe A Shaltiel-Gracian Publisher Comments The Shealtiel Manuscripts is a unique and unprecedented presentation of original and, mostly, unpublished before, documents that shades light on Jewish life in medieval Spain via the story of the Shealtiels, Author, editor and historian, Moshe Shaltiel...
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Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities
by John R. Bartlett Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-238) and index....
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Overcoming Life's Disappointments
by Harold S. Kushner Publisher Comments 1 The Man Who Dared to Dream What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Langston Hughes, Harlem In these lines, the poet Langston Hughes wonders what happens to dreams that don't come true. I wonder what happens to the...
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Mitzvahchic: How to Host a Meaningful, Fun, Drop-Dead Gorgeous Bar or Bat Mitzvah
by Gail, Anthony Greenberg Publisher Comments 'An indispensable, modern-day guide to planning the perfect bar or bat mitzvah, celebrating substance and style There used to be only two approaches to the bar or bat mitzvah party -- a low-key event that reflects the solemnity of this sacred rite of...
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The Legends Of The Jews Volume 4
by Louis Ginzberg Publisher Comments The battle took place on a Friday. Joshua knew it would pain the people deeply to be compelled to desecrate the holy Sabbath day. Besides, he noticed that the heathen were using sorcery to make the heavenly hosts intercede for them in the fight against...
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Similariites of Redaction of the Gospel according to Matthew, with texts of Philo Alexandrinus
by Pasi, K Pohjala Publisher Comments Philo of Alexandria was a contemporary of Jesus and Paul. He was well educated in Platonic and other Hellenistic Philosophies, and he was the most important writer of the Hellenised Alexandrian Judaism. His preserved writings comprise 12 volumes in the...
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Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom
by Robert Chazan Publisher Comments A study of five twelfth- and thirteenth-century Jewish polemicists from southern France and northern Spain....
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Jacob and His Sons
by Martin Sicker Publisher Comments The sagas of Jacob and his sons are presented in the biblical book of Genesis in a series of sometimes seemingly unrelated episodes. In this book, the author undertakes to show that these episodes are all intimately connected and were selected to...
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