Judy Petsonik

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Offers profiles of contemporary Jews who are discovering new ways of practicing Judaism and new interpretations of Jewish texts, including the founders of the Havurah movement, feminists, young families, and gays. 15,000 first printing.

Taking Judiasm Personally

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Nathan Laufer

The Seder's Meaning Revealed, the Haggadah's Story Retold

Enrich Your Passover Seder with Renewed Meaning and Significance

Whether you are planning to participate in, contribute to, or lead a Passover Seder, Leading the Passover Journey will help you relive the Jewish People's legacy of survival, hope and redemption, and reconnect with the rich heritage celebrated in this special event.

Reclaim the hidden meaning of the Passover Seder. Connect the pieces of the Haggadah narrative into one meaningful, cohesive story. From preparing for Passover to understanding the order of the Seder, from eating the meal of freedom in the house of slavery to reenacting the saga at the sea, this fascinating exploration of the texts and traditions surrounding the most celebrated event in the Jewish calendar will awaken latent knowledge and provide new understanding. It will empower you to fully understand and identify with the complete story of the Jewish People's journey of liberation.

Leading the Passover Journey

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Scott Shay

How To Energize American Jewry

Ten practical and achievable mini-manifestos that can reinvigorate American Jewry.

Getting our Groove Back

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Donna Rosenthal

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land

Rosenthal explores a people who, while consciously living in a war zone, contribute to one of the most vibrant civic societies anywhere. It is the story of ordinary people living in an extraordinary place.

The Israelis

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Sherre Hirsch

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

10 Steps to Finding Your Divine Path When Life Is Not Turning Out Like You Wanted

In this work based on a Yiddish proverb, Hirsch addresses serious spiritual issues and teaches the importance of letting go and recognizing that even the most ordinary life is extraordinary in the eyes of God.

We Plan, God Laughs

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Joseph Telushkin

The Most Important People, Events, and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible

As he did so brilliantly in his bestselling book, jewish literacy,Joseph Teluslikin once again mines a subject of, Jewish history and religion so richly that his book becomes an inspiring companion and a fundamental reference. In Biblical Lileracy, Telushkin turns his attention to the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Old Testament), the most iniluential series of books in human history. Along with the Ten Commandments, the Bible's most famous document, no piece of legislation ever enacted has influenced human behavior as much as the biblical injunction to "Love your neighbor as yourself." No political tract has motivated human beings in so many diverse societies to fight for political freedom as the Exodus story of God's liberation of the Israelite slaves--which shows that God intends that, ultimately, people be free. The Bible's influence, however, has conveyed as much through its narratives as its laws. Its timeless and moving tales about the human condition and man's relationship to God have long shaped Jewish and Christian notions of morality, and continue to stir the conscience and imagination of believers and skeptics alike. There is a universality in biblical stories: The murder of Abel by his brother Cain is a profound tragedy of sibling jealousy and family love gone awry (see pages 11-14). Abraham',s challenge to God to save the lives of the evil people of Sodom is a fierce drama of man in confrontation with God, suggesting the human right to contend with the Almighty when it is feared He is acting unjustly (see pages 32-34). Jacob's, deception of his blind father, Isaac raises the timeless question: Do the ends justify the means when the fate of the world is at stake (see pages 46-55). Encyclopedia in scope, but dynamic and original in its observations and organization, Biblical Lileracy makes available in one volume the Bible's timeless stories of love, deceit, and the human condition; its most important laws and ideas; and an annotated listing of all 613 laws of the Torah for both layman and professional, there is no other reference work or interpretation of the Bible quite like this Stunning volume.

Biblical Literacy

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Len Lyons

Ilan Ossendryver

Alan M. Dershowitz

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Personal Stories of Life in the Promised Land

"In 1977 there were about one hundred Ethiopian Jews in Israel; now there are more than one hundred thousand. Their exodus from their native land and their mass immigration to Israel is a unique historical event." "This book is the first one to recount in photographs and candid interviews the challenging and inspiring accomplishments of Ethiopian Jews struggling to become Ethiopian Israelis. Featuring more than fifty men and women - religious leaders, soldiers, lawyers, students, actors, musicians, a member of the Knesset, and more - this book reveals their personal stories. A historical narrative that traces how some Ethiopians became Jewish and how they got to Israel. Then, in their own words, they reveal how they experience Israel as a part of its most impoverished and culturally different minority." "Their dream is to become accepted and integrated without losing their own character, identity and values. They declare their devotion to their religious homeland and to overcoming the illiteracy, unemployment, crime and alienation that have plagued their community."--BOOK JACKET.

The Ethiopian Jews of Israel

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Milton Steinberg

Chaim Potok

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Exploration of the times of Elisha ben Abuyah.

As a Driven Leaf

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William Gibson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Play

(Applause Books). The rise of Golda Meir from impoverished Russian schoolgirl to Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most amazing stories of the 20th century. Now her life has been transformed into a one-woman play of overwhelming power and triumph by William Gibson, author of The Miracle Worker . Golda's Balcony earned actress Tovah Feldshuh a 2003 Drama Desk award. "Enlightening ... Now, hearing from someone who was there at the birth of the country, who sacrificed to make that happen, helps remind us where the Middle East standoff came from and why it never seems to end." The New York Times "A valentine to the famously tough prime minister." New York Post

Golda's Balcony

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New Jersey

A Hidden Inheritance

Traces the parallel stories of 19th-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Hare with Amber Eyes

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Lucette Lagnado

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses everything and his family is forced to flee, abandoning a life once marked by beauty and luxury to plunge into hardship and poverty, as they take flight for any country that would have them. A vivid, heartbreaking, and powerful inversion of the American dream, Lucette Lagnado's unforgettable memoir is a sweeping story of family, faith, tradition, tragedy, and triumph set against the stunning backdrop of Cairo, Paris, and New York. Winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "brilliant, crushing book" and the New Yorker as a memoir of ruin "told without melodrama by its youngest survivor," The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit recounts the exile of the author's Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo in 1963 and her father's heroic and tragic struggle to survive his "riches to rags" trajectory.

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

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Barbara Diamond Goldin

A Jewish Girl's Coming of Age

A history and description of the bat mitzvah, the ceremony in which a Jewish girl marks her transition to adulthood.

Bat Mitzvah

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#religion #theology #religiousstudies #biblestudy #oldtestament #biblicalinterpretation #judaism #jewishstudies

New Hampshire

The Bible’s First Theologian

The Yahwist

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#paperback #biography #nonfiction #jewishstudies #art #netsuke #collector #Vienna #history #multipleawardwinner 

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Ohio

A Novel

Over two thousand years ago, remnants of one of the lost tribes of Israel appeared on the shores of India. They became known in India as the Bene Israel. Nothing has been the same since.

After religious riots break out in modern Ahmedabad, a handful of the tribe's descendants band together to live in a communal housing complex: the Shalom India Housing Society. Nestled amidst their Hindu and Muslim neighbors, the residents of these charming apartments find ways to laugh (the laughing club meets every morning on the lawn) and love, whether it is a crush next door or an Internet date with a distant Israeli.

Writing with wit and an artist's eye for detail, Esther David vividly portrays a resilient group who share a fondness for the liquor-loving Prophet Elijah and costume parties. These true-to-life stories depict the joys and conflicts of a people continually choosing between the Indian traditions of their homeland and their Jewish heritage.

Shalom India Housing Society

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Oregon

Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews

In 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, raising increasingly relevant questions regarding the multicultural identities of new spouses and their offspring. But while new census categories and a growing body of statistics provide data, they tell us little about the inner workings of day-to-day life for such couples and their children.



JewAsian is a qualitative examination of the intersection of race, religion, and ethnicity in the increasing number of households that are Jewish American and Asian American. Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt's book explores the larger social dimensions of intermarriages to explain how these particular unions reflect not only the identity of married individuals but also the communities to which they belong. Using in-depth interviews with couples and the children of Jewish American and Asian American marriages, Kim and Leavitt's research sheds much-needed light on the everyday lives of these partnerships and how their children negotiate their own identities in the twenty-first century.

JewAsian

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Clean, tight square book with only mild use, page tanning #paperback #fiction #potok #jewish #jewishstudies 

Virginia

A baseball game between Jewish schools is the catalyst that starts a bitter rivalry between two boys and their fathers.

The Chosen

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Tennessee

The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

A timely analysis of the antisemitism and prejudice that fuels Holocaust deniers, written by the inspirational author behind the major motion picture Denial, starring Rachel Weisz.

The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy.

Such notions used to be the province of pseudohistorians who argued that Hitler never meant to kill the Jews, and that only a few hundred thousand died in the camps from disease; they also argued that the Allied bombings of Dresden and other cities were worse than any Nazi offense, and that the Germans were the "true victims" of World War II. For years, those who made such claims were dismissed as harmless cranks operating on the lunatic fringe.

But now, in the first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Deborah Lipstadt shows how--despite living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence--this irrational idea not only has continued to gain adherents but has become an international movement, with organized chapters, "independent" research centers, and official publications that promote a "revisionist" view of recent history. Lipstadt shows how Holocaust denial thrives in the current atmosphere of value relativism, and argues that this chilling attack on the factual record not only threatens Jews but undermines the very tenets of objective scholarship that support our faith in historical knowledge.

Denying the Holocaust

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Alabama

MeAm Lo’ez; revised 2nd edition

The Book of Esther

#paperback #biography #nonfiction #art #family #inheritance #jewishstudies 

Pennsylvania

Diana Fersko

Texas

A millennial rabbi explores why we're reluctant to discuss antisemitism--and empowers us to fight against it Antisemitism is on the rise in America, in cities and rural areas, in red states and blue states, and in guises both subtle and terrifyingly overt. Rabbi Diana Fersko is used to having difficult conversations with members of her congregation about the issues they face--from the threat of violence to microaggressions and identity denial. In We Need to Talk About Antisemitism, she gives all of us the ultimate guide to modern antisemitism in its many forms. Exploring topics like vile myths about Jewish people and the intersection of antisemitism with other forms of discrimination, We Need to Talk About Antisemitism gives readers the tools they need to understand the state of antisemitism today. Fersko shows Jews and non-Jews alike how to speak up and come together, spreading a message of solidarity and hope. This is a timely read for anyone passionate about fighting for social justice.

We Need to Talk about Antisemitism

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Reeve R. Brenner

How did they experience in the death camps, and the kiddos, or in hiding affect the religious beliefs of those who survive the holocaust? How, in the face of almost certain death, did these living witnesses find that your faith in God, in the Jewish people, and God’s role in catastrophes, and religious doctrine has changed?   #Holocaust #JewishStudies #Jewish #Judaica #Sociology #Religion #faith #HolocaustStudies

Arizona

Questioning over 1, 000 survivors, Brenner seeks to establish the impact of the Holocaust on the religious belief of those who survived. includes bibliographical references and index.

The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors

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They all defied the status quo and thought for themselves. They dared to explore and confront the forbidden. The result? Everything in their lives changed for the better! Author Sid Roth was instructed in a dream to find and interview people who had broken through the mold of their previous experiences to achieve their destiny. These are the people he interviewed. These are their stories and this is your time for your breakthrough! Everyone has a supernatural destiny, but few reach it. Too many want the safe and comfortable life of following the same old roads or fitting in with the same old crowd. How boring! Have you ever wondered if there is something more to life? Have you ever dared to reach beyond your comfort zone? Only when you dare to think for yourself, will you reach your supernatural destiny. Start today! Book jacket.

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Judy Petsonik

Taking Judiasm Personally

Nathan Laufer

Leading the Passover Journey

Scott Shay

Getting our Groove Back

Donna Rosenthal

The Israelis

Sherre Hirsch

We Plan, God Laughs

Joseph Telushkin

Biblical Literacy

Len Lyons; Ilan Ossendryver; Alan M. Dershowitz

The Ethiopian Jews of Israel

Milton Steinberg; Chaim Potok

As a Driven Leaf

William Gibson

Golda's Balcony

Edmund de Waal

The Hare with Amber Eyes

Lucette Lagnado

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

Barbara Diamond Goldin

Bat Mitzvah

Peter Ellis

The Yahwist

Edmund de Waal

The Hare with Amber Eyes

Esther David; Jael Silliman (Afterword by)

Shalom India Housing Society

Helen Kiyong Kim; Noah Samuel Leavitt

JewAsian

Chaim Potok

The Chosen

Deborah E. Lipstadt

Denying the Holocaust

Rabbi Yaakov Culi

The Book of Esther

Edmund de Waal

The Hare with Amber Eyes

Diana Fersko

We Need to Talk about Antisemitism

Reeve R. Brenner

The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors

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They Thought for Themselves

Edmund de Waal

The Hare with Amber Eyes