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Biblical Literacy: The Most Important People, Events, and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible

Rabbi Joseph TelushkinPublisher: William MorrowEncyclopedic in scope, but arranged by people, events, laws and ideas, this reference makes available in one volume all the Bible’s timeless stories of love, greed, and the human condition; stories that form the basis for our sense of morality. It not only provides a complete education in all the books of the Hebrew Bible but ...

Beyond the Tears: Helping Jewish Kids Cope With Death

Eugene I. KwalwasserPublisher: Pitspopany PressYoung people have no experience with death and mourning. They need guidelines, a sense of direction, a path that will give them comfort even as they express their anger, frustration, and suffering.Unfortunately, many parents are at a loss as to how to explain the end process of life to their children. Not all parents can really ...

Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism

Karla GoldmanPublisher: Harvard Univ. PressBeyond the Synagogue Gallery recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Karla Goldman’s study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation, of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society.Goldman focuses on the nineteenth century. This was an era in which immigrant ...

Beyond Chicken Soup

A Collection of Contemporary and Traditional Food Favoritesby Jewish Home Auxiliary350 tempting dishes. Recipes using fresh ingredients, innovative combinations, and traditional fare prepared with a contemporary twist. Whatever coking means to you, this book will inspire you to create memories and traditions that go Beyond Chicken SoupExamples:Red Lentil SoupPutter KuchenOrange Soy SalmonYams a la MadlineVeal MarengoPassover Apple Cake(294 Pages)7′x9′Publisher: Jewish Home Auxiliary, ...

Beware of God: Stories

Shalom AuslanderPublisher: Simon & SchusterShalom Auslander’s stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man’s inexplicable transformation into a very large, blond, tattooed goy ends with an argument over whether or not his father can beat his unclean son with a copy of the Talmud. A pious ...

Between the Lines of the Bible – A Study From The New School of Orthodox Torah Commentary

Yitzchak EtshalomPublisher: Yashar Books Inc.Yitzchak Etshalom initiates readers into the world of the New School of Orthodox Torah commentary in a series of compelling studies of Genesis.Over the past few decades, Orthodox Jewish scholars have carefully embraced many of the methodologies of modern Bible study. History, archeology, linguistics and many other disciplines-especially literary analysis-can serve to enhance our understanding of ...

Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mystery

Internationally acclaimed author Batya Gur is known for her psychologically astute mysteries set in Israel and for the brooding and attractive Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon they feature. In her latest novel, the body of a young woman is discovered in the attic of a Bethlehem Road house, in a neighborhood of Jerusalem known for its impenetrability to outsiders. Chief Superintendent ...

Bellow: A Biography

James AtlasPublisher: Random HouseMasterly, original, Bellow: A Biography is an extraordinary achievement, the brilliant and long-awaited biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author of Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, and other bestsellers. National Book Award nominee James Atlas here gives the first definitive account of Bellow’s turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events-the ...

Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today

Ari L. GoldmanPublisher: Simon & SchusterIncreasing numbers of Jews are returning to their religious roots in a search for meaning, eager to explore a heritage that is deeply embedded in history and at the same time rapidly changing. But what is Judaism today? And what does it mean — culturally, spiritually, and ritually — to be Jewish in the twenty-first ...

Behind the Walls: The Story of a Young Girl’s Spiritual and Physical Survival During the War Years

Miriam CohenPublisher: FeldheimBehind the Walls is the inspiring true story of Chanah Kaufman’s wartime experiences and survival. Chanah’s comfortable life in Brussels begins to unravel slowly — at first, the Jewish girls were no longer to sit next to their Christian classmates. Then Chanah could no longer play outside. Next, Jews began to disappear from Brussels. Chanah’s parents began to ...

Behind the Secret Window

A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World War IIby Nelly S. TollAges 12+ Fifty years ago, Nelly and her mother were confined to a single room for thirteen months hidden from the Nazis in the small bedroom of a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland. Like Anne Frank, Nelly kept a diary; even more notable, she produced dozens of vibrant water ...

Begin His Life, Words and Deeds

by Zvi Harry HurwitzWhenever the name of Menachem Begin is mentioned, people of all ages and persuasions respond in the same way: We need him now.What is it that we need; what is missing? Perhaps Menachem Begins most important and unique contribution to the Jewish People was Supreme Patriotism. More and more frequently we hear and read accounts that show ...

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