Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust
by Time Magazine (cor)

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Rutka Laskier, a 14-year-old Jewish girl, died in Auschwitz in 1943, but she left behind a notebook in which she recorded her thoughts and dreams. The editors at "TIME" have added annotations, photos, and quotations that help to bring this tragic era... (read more)
 
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The Wisdom of Maimonides: The Life and Writings of the Jewish Sage
by Edward Hoffman

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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... (read more)
 
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Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
by Norman G. Finkelstein

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In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-... (read more)
 
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The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel
by Linda Grant

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"The further away anyone was from that block of Ben Yehuda street, the easier it seemed to find a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, that stubborn mess in the center of the Middle East and the more I studied these solutions, the... (read more)
 
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The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews
by Neal Karlen

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Yiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an incredible journey, especially considering how often Jews have tried to kill it themselves. Underlying... (read more)
 
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Genesis the Book with Seventy Faces: A Guide for the Family
by E. Takac

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Children will love the full color illustrations and simple narrative that helps explain each story of the Book of Genesis. Teens and adults will gain a more profound understanding of the our forefathers and their wives as they read both the Rabbinic... (read more)
 
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Spiritual Activism: A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World
by Avraham Weiss

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Perhaps the most fundamental principle in Judaism is that every person is created in the image of God. Just as God gives and cares, so too do we have the natural capacity to be giving and caring. When we work to ignite this divine spark in those around... (read more)
 
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A Mystical Haggadah: Passover Meditations, Teachings, and Tales
by Eliahu J. Klein

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In a generation that has seen an explosion in popularity of books about mystical and meditative traditions, very little has been published about the rich and fascinating mystical traditions of the Jewish holy days. Passover, the first religious holiday... (read more)
 
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Ancient Jewish Magic: A History
by Gideon Bohak

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This is a pioneering history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period. It is based both on the ancient magicians' own compositions (and products) in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek, and on the descriptions and prescriptions of... (read more)
 
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Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village
by Mimi Schwartz

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Mimi Schwartz grew up on milkshakes and hamburgers—and her father’s boyhood stories. She rarely took the stories seriously. What was a modern American teenager supposed to make of these accounts of a village in Germany where, according to her... (read more)
 
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Money (Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices)
by Elliot N. (edt) Dorff

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This new JPS ethics series deals with some of the most critical moral issues of our time Each volume in this series presents traditional and contemporary sources on specific topics, followed by hypothetical cases and study questions to provoke discussion.... (read more)
 
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Holy Unexpected: My New Life as a Jew
by Robin Chotzinoff

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Raised a born-again agnostic, Robin Chotzinoff had no interest in religion—and practically no experience in it— until she turned forty. When she suddenly discovered a belief in God, she had no idea what to do next. In Holy Unexpected she... (read more)
 
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Nano: Technology of Mind Over Matter
by Rav P. S. Berg

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Public interest in the connection between science and religion has recently become very high, but the subject has long been studied by Kabbalists. Years before “nano” entered the vernacular as an abbreviation for “... (read more)
 
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God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors with the Adventure Rabbi
by Jamie S. Korngold

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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... (read more)
 
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Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story
by Dan Vittorio Segre

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“I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head.” From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre’s memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled... (read more)
 
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