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Author
Publisher
MazorBooks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The Mitzvah Gang and the Extraordinary Sukkah tells a heartwarming story about an amazing gang of seven kids that comes to the aid of a family unable to prepare for the holiday of Sukkot. Told in rhyme and accompanied by fun images, the story keeps the young reader's interest while it also inspires compassion, kindness, and creative thinking.
4) The vigil
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young man agrees to fulfill the duties of a 'shomer,' the ritualistic practice of looking after a dead body over the course of one night. He soon finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she's hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her a bestseller even as her chronic illness has always kept the kind of love she writes about out of reach. But when her diversity-conscious publisher insists she write a Hanukkah romance, her well of inspiration suddenly runs dry. Hanukkah's not magical....
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much. He's got basketball to play, studies to avoid, and a supermarket full of delicious kosher snacks to eat. The people of Tregaron aren't happy that so many Orthodox Jews are moving in at once, but that's not Hoodie's problem. That is, until he meets...
Author
Language
English
Description
She's more than 3,000 years old. Her grandfather was the patriarch Jacob. She's mentioned by name three times in the Hebrew Bible, but there are no stories told about her. She knew Moses and David, Spinoza and Einstein–and now, at long last, Serach bat Asher has written her autobiography.
"I was born in a tent," Serach tells us, a woman long silenced by history. She is feisty, funny, and bitter. The stories she tells about what really happened to...
8) Daughters of the Desert: Stories of Remarkable Women from Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions
Author
Language
English
Description
How would the most cherished stories of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam be different if women were the active central figures?
This ground-breaking collection of short stories brings to life the women-daring, brave, thoughtful, and wise-who played important and exciting roles in the early days of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Join Esther as she stands against injustice and her king to save her people, Aisha as she leads hundreds of men into terrifying...
Author
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Malfa-Adler is Jew . . . ish. Not that she really thinks about it. She'd prefer to focus on her favorite pastime: baking delicious food! But when her best friend has a beyond-awesome Bat Mitzvah, Hannah starts to feel a little envious ...Despite her parents firm no, Hannah knows that if she can learn enough about her own faith, she can convince her friends that the party is still in motion"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
The creator of Meet the Latkes presents a zany retelling of the Passover story that depicts an earnestly elusive matzah who tells his class about how the Hebrews fled Egypt to freedom, while a heckling slice of sourdough cracks jokes.
12) Honey and me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Milla's best friend Honey joins her school for sixth grade Milla finds herself in her friend's shadow, but as the year progresses through the Jewish holidays Milla trys to cope with the tensions and the dramas of school--including the death of a beloved teacher.
Author
Language
English
Description
For fans of The Red Tent.
She is from a poor Jewish settlement in a powerful Greco-Roman world. When Othniel bar-Ismael, a textile merchant from Jerusalem, arrives in her village, he is determined to take her for his wife. But the reality of living as a fine lady is not as grand as she thought it would be. When she meets the man of her dreams, an acquaintance of her husband's, her life is forever changed.
Caught with her lover, she
...14) The Talmud
Author
Language
English
Description
The following passage from the biography of Arsene Darmesteter, prefixed to Volume I of his Reliques Scientifiques, deserves quotation, both on account of its criticism of Emanuel Deutsch's brilliant article on the Talmund, which originally appeared in the quarterly review for October, 1867, and as an illustration of the phenomenon, often noted in the scientific world, that investigators, wholly independent and perhaps in ignorance of each other,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Announcing a smart, daring, original new take on the Torah. Imagine: 54 leading young Jewish writers, artists, photographers, screenwriters, architects, actors, musicians, and graphic artists grappling with the first five books of the Bible and giving new meaning to the 54 Torah portions that are traditionally read over the course of a year. From the foundational stories of Genesis and Exodus to the legalistic minutiae of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy,...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
478 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of MarchPeople of the Book is a novel of both sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity and is an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.
Author
Language
English
Description
This rabbi gig. People have no idea what it's all about.
The Rabbi Finds Her Way follows Pearl Ross-Levy's first two years as associate rabbi at a large Reform congregation in California.
This compelling, inspiring, and often funny narrative weaves the experiences and insights that shape the young rabbi as she finds her way through the challenges of her profession.
We see Pearl's lifelong friendship with a high school classmate-the victim of a serious...
Author
Language
English
Description
An intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction
Terence Ball, The Banality of Evil
Sandra Levy Ceren, Silver Is Better Than Gold
Martin S. Cohen, Death Has Beckoned
Richard Fliegel, The Golem of Bronx Park East
Michael A. Kahn, Truth in a Plain Brown Wrapper
Stuart M. Kaminsky, The Tenth Man
Rochelle Krich,Bitter Waters
Ronald Levitsky,Thy Brother's Bloods
Lev Raphael, Your Papers, Please
Shelley Singer, Reconciling Howard
Janice Steinberg,...
20) We go to shul
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
This inviting look at a weekly Jewish tradition follows a family as they head to synagogue together for Shul.
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