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61) Wings of Faith: Soar Above Life's Challenges: Rabbi Asher Zelig Rubenstein z'l on Shaar HaBitachon
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Wings of Faith is a fantastic work, explaining Shaar HaBitachon with answers to life's crucial questions:
Why do we need to work? (pg. 73)
What is the best way to get brilliant business ideas? (pg. 74).
What is the best way for a Jew to decide issues? (pg. 78)
What is the most important principle of fundraising? (pg. 288)
How can we get a hug from Hashem, our Father in Heaven, every day? (pg. 103)
What type of job should a person choose? (pg. 86)
How...
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When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are "lost" to the Jewish religion. In this provocative book, Keren R. McGinity shows that it is not necessarily so. She looks at intermarriage and parenthood through the eyes of a post-World War II cohort of Jewish men and discovers what intermarriage has meant to them and their families. She finds that these husbands strive to bring up their children as Jewish...
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First published in October, 1898 in the "Jewish Quarterly Review", "The Testament of Solomon" is an Old Testament catalogue of demons invoked by King Solomon, with instructions on how they can be countered by summoning angels and magical spells. Amongst the oldest magical texts attributed to King Solomon, it dates back to the First to Third Century A.D... "The Testament of Solomon" will appeal to those with an interest in the Old Testament and occultism,...
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"In my book on The Temple, its Ministry and Services, I endeavoured to carry the reader with me into the Sanctuary, and to make him witness all connected with its institutions, its priesthood, and its solemnities. In this book I have sought to take him into ordinary civil society, and to make him mingle with the men and women of that period, see them in their...
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"Runner-Up for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007" Hana Wirth-Nesher is the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair on the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States, Professor of English, and head of the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel and...
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"Peter Schäfer, Winner of the 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation" Peter Schäfer is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of religion at Princeton University, where he directs the Program in Judaic Studies. His books include The Origins of Jewish Mysticism and Jesus in the Talmud (both Princeton). He received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in...
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Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His many books include Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel, which won the National Jewish Book Award, and Inheriting Abraham and Creation and the Persistence of Evil (both Princeton).
The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism-but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears...
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Jewish Cultural Studies charts the contours and boundaries of Jewish cultural studies and the issues of Jewish culture that make it so intriguing-and necessary-not only for Jews but also for students of identity, ethnicity, and diversity generally. In addition to framing the distinguishing features of Jewish culture and the ways it has been studied, and often misrepresented and maligned, Simon J. Bronner presents several case studies using ethnography,...
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In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in 1948–49. Jews had resided in Libya since Phoenician times, seventeen centuries before their encounter with the Arab conquest in AD 644–646. Their disappearance from Libya, like most other Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East, led to their fragmentation across the...
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Combining photography and essay, presents a speculative portrait of a Jewish immigrant living out the end of his days in New York's midcentury mental health system.
After the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center on New York's Seneca Lake in 1995, more than four hundred abandoned suitcases were discovered in its attic, containing thousands of personal possessions belonging to former patients. Three of the suitcases were owned by Charles F., an eighty-four-year-old...
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"Winner of the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for the Jewish Literature Choice Award" "Finalist for the 2007 Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award" "Winner of the 2006 Theodore Saloutos Prize, Immigration and Ethnic History Society" "Co-Winner of the 2006 Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society" "Finalist for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council" Eric L. Goldstein is associate professor...
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Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world. As the community began to disperse after the fall of the Soviet Union, Alanna E. Cooper traveled to Uzbekistan to document Jewish life before it disappeared. Drawing on ethnographic...
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"Winner of the 2010 Prix Alberto Benveniste" "Winner of the 2009 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League" "Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture, Jewish Book Council" "Honorable Mention for the 2009 Edmund Keeley Book Prize, Modern Greek Studies Association" K. E. Fleming is professor of history and Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization at New York University, where she also serves as associate...
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The idea for this book came to Larry Tye as he traveled overseas as a reporter for the Boston Globe. In each city he visited he was intrigued by a reawakening of practice and spirit of the long repressed Jewish community. And the more communities he saw close-up, the clearer it became to him that the Jewish world was being reshaped and revitalized in ways that were not reflected in what he was reading about the disappearing diaspora and the vanishing...
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"Winner of the 2008 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise" "Co-Winner of the 2008 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion" Benjamin Lazier is assistant professor of history and humanities at Reed College. He is a recipient of the 2008 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise.
Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed...
77) Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939
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Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Shtetl tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust.
Combining archival research with analysis of literary, cultural, and religious texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the lived experience of Jewish society's...
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Vanessa L. Ochs is professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and an ordained rabbi. Her books include Inventing Jewish Ritual, which won a National Jewish Book Award; Sarah Laughed: Modern Lessons from the Wisdom and Stories of Biblical Women; and Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey into the Sacred. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The life and times of a treasured book read by generations of Jewish families...
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From a brilliant and witty comic book aficionado, this "scholarly but lively narrative" (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the links between Jews and the iconic superheroes of Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.
Many of us know that the superheroes at the heart of the American comic book industry were created by Jews. But you'd be surprised to learn how much these beloved characters were shaped by the cultural and religious traditions of...
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In 1993, Amira Aass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story - and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in Gaza's gutted streets and destitute refugee camps.
Drinking the Sea at Gaza maps the
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