Rituals & Practice

An exciting new treasury of Jewish stories and storytellers, from ancient tales and classics re-imagined to contemporary family stories, parables, and humor "Why were human beings created?" goes a traditional Jewish saying. "Because God loves stories."...

Extraordinary wisdom to help you understand yourself, lead your life and deal with other people. "As human beings, we have instincts for both good and evil, conscious and unconscious. To rectify ourselves-to live spiritually and properly-involves...

This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine...

The fashion identities in the context of a wider conversation about American nationhood, to whom it belongs and what belonging means. Race and ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality are all staple ingredients in this conversation. They are salient...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316830201Author Norman FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

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Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition is a groundbreaking collection that introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely under-represented, Jewish ethical perspectives. For...

This book begins by exploring the mysterious origins of an institution so familiar that most of us never wonder where it came from—the seven-day week. Jon D. Levenson then focuses on the historical development of the Jewish Sabbath and the rich range of...

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Chanting the Hebrew Bible provides a fine history of the tradition and offers a comprehensive explanation of the practice, an explanation of regional variations and grammatical rules, and shows how chanting dramatizes and interprets the meaning within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807412268Author Rabbi Richard F AddressFormat PaperbackImprint Behrman House PublishingPublisher Behrman House Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580234078Author Ron WolfsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Jewish Thought) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781580233545Author Lawrence A. HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580238502Author Rabbi Joel H BaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231541Author Karyn D. KedarFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 550g

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Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women comments on hair covering based on an ethnographic study of the lives of Orthodox Jewish women in a small non-metropolitan synagogue. It brings the often overlooked stories of these women to the forefront and...

A 64-page workbook to help rabbis, cantors, education directors, and family programmers prepare b'nai mitzvah students and their families for that momentous life-cycle event--the bar or bat mitzvah. The manual is divided into six training sessions,...

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In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries,...

The notion that rituals, like natural languages, are governed by implicit, rigorous rules led scholars in the last century, harking back to the early Indian grammarian Patanjali, to speak of a "grammar", or "syntax", of ritual,...

According to historical teaching, a Jewish man should give thanks each day for ''not having been made a gentile, a woman, nor a slave.'' Yoel Kahn's innovative study of a controversial Jewish liturgical passage traces the history of this prayer from its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231756Author Moshe MykoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 209mm * 134mm...

Marriage today might be a highly contested topic, but certainly no more than it was in antiquity. Ancient Jews, like their non-Jewish neighbors, grappled with what have become perennial issues of marriage, from its idealistic definitions to its many...

Ruth Langer offers an in-depth study of the birkat haminim, a Jewish prayer for the removal of those categories of human being who prevent the messianic redemption and the society envisioned for it. In its earliest form, the prayer cursed Christians,...

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Selections from most authoritative sociological studies of American Jewish life.Book InformationISBN 9780874413489Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S.Publisher Behrman House Inc.,U.S.

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Siddur KatanÔøΩis a cheerful non-denominational 18-page Shabbat morning prayer book for families with young children.Book InformationISBN 9780874419092Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S.Publisher Behrman House...

"Light from the Darkness offers a powerful tool to help future generations bear witness, to understand the history of the Shoah, and to apply its universal themes to modern times." -- Abraham H. FoxmanHow do we continue to commemorate the Holocaust? How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807409442Author Sharon G FormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Urj PressPublisher Urj PressWeight(grams) 204g

This is a story of the Jewish experience through history, which introduces and explains the many dimensions of Jewish life as "cycles" through which Jewish history, thought, writing, and practices have evolved and continue to mature. Steven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581826432Author Nancy RipsFormat HardbackPage Count 191Imprint Cumberland House Publishing,USPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Jewish Family Literature) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780807410899Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint UAHC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807408506Author Sunie LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press