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Passover Lite Kosher Cookbook

by Gail Ashkanazi-HankinPassover meal preparation can be difficult with the challenge of creating meals that are both unleavened and healthy, not to mention tasty! Passover Lite Kosher Cookbook is the answer to this challenge. Not only is every recipe kosher for Passover but also interesting and delicious-and not just limited to Passover cooking.Gail Ashkanazi-Hankin provides a wide range of recipesfrom those handed ...

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Passage to Pesach: Preparing for Passover through Text and Tradition

Frances Weinman SchwartzPublisher: UAHC PressOf all the Jewish holidays, Pesach ranks among the most popular – but there is more to it than matzah! This unique book encourages an enriched, text-based understanding of why we do what we do.Pesach is a holiday that helps define Jews as individuals as well as a people. This book will help you discover your ...

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Parenting Jewish Teens: A Guide for the Perplexed

Joanne DoadesPublisher: Jewish LightsRaising a teenager is difficult your Jewish values can help make it easier.Relationships with teenage children can be maddening and frustrating. They undergo the most peculiar transition from children you think you know into mysterious adolescent strangers you often wish you didn’t.Drawing upon the teachings, insights, and wisdom that have sustained the Jewish people throughout the generations, ...

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Parenting by the Book

A Weekly Portion of Chinuch Banimby Rosally SaltsmanA delightful and important book, combining classic parenting wisdom with concrete Torah thoughts. Written according to the weekly Torah portion, each lesson is presented in a down-to-earth, practical way that all parents will benefit from.(253 Pages)Publisher: Targum, 2003This item is sold by:Note: Judaism.com is the longest established Jewish book and Judaica store on the ...

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Paradise Park: A Novel

Allegra GoodmanPublisher: Dial PressBrilliant, fresh, funny, and wise, Allegra Goodman has delighted readers with her short stories in The New Yorker and her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz. Her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, was a national bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. The novel, wrote Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, “ratifies the ...

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Paradise Park

A Novelby Allegra GoodmanIn Paradise Park Allegra Goodman introduces one of the most endearing, exasperating, and indomitable heroines in modern literature: Sharon Spiegelman. Abandoned by her Israeli folk-dancing partner, Gary, in a Honolulu hotel room, Sharon realizes she could return to Boston – and her estranged family – or listen to that little voice inside herself. The voice asks: ‘How ...

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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books

Aaron LanskyPublisher: Algonquin BooksIn 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world’s abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Twenty-five years and one and a half million books later, he’s still in the midst of a great adventure. Filled with poignant and often laugh-out-loud tales from Lansky’s travels across the country as he collected ...

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Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Suffering, Mourning and the Human Condition Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, David Shatz (editor), Joel B. Wolowelsky (editor), Reuven Ziegler (editor)

Publisher: KtavThe topics of mourning and suffering are among the most salient in the writings of Rabbi Soloveitchik, both when he describes personal experiences and when he articulates his philosophy. The essays in this volume powerfully illustrate the Rav’s peerless ability to derive a Jewish understanding of both God and the human condition from biblical and halakhic sources. The Rav ...

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Our Sages Showed the Way

3 Volume Setby Yocheved SegalIllustrated by: Naama NothmanTranslated by: Esther FalkAges 8-11 A beloved classic, redone in three-volumes! A treasure-trove of over 200 stories from Midrashic and Talmudic sources that will delight and educate children of all ages. Children will be held spellbound by the heartwarming stories, as well as the numerous illustrations. Originally published in five volumes-now available in a three-volume set.Translated ...

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Our Lives As Torah: Finding God in Our Stories

Carol OchsPublisher: Jossey-BassIn this powerful book, Carol Ochs shows us how to develop a personal theology by examining our life stories, learning to recognize God at work in them, and bringing them into conversation with Torah. Using timeless biblical texts as lenses to see the present, she helps us understand who we are and who God is for us by ...

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Only in America: From Holocaust to National Industry Leadership

William UngarPublisher: KtavOnly in America is a Horatio Alger story. William Ungar, a holocaust survivor, who arrived penniless in America at age 33, parlayed a job on the factory assembly floor into a business which became one of Fortune’s 500 largest privately held firms. Today the National Envelope Company is pre-eminent in its industry and employs over 3500 people in ...

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Onkelos on the Torah – Leviticus

Understanding the Bible Textby Rabbi Israel Drazin and Rabbi Stanley M. WagnerPart of the ‘Onkelos on the Torah: Understanding the Bible Text’ series.Onkelos On the Torah: Understanding the Bible Text is a unique and remarkable translation and English commentary of the Targum Onkelos, the first and only rabbinically authorized translation of the Torah.The Book of Leviticus is the third volume of ...

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