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A Tribute to My Teachers

As the first decade of the new millennium comes to a close, I thought I would pay tribute to the teachers who have influenced me most during these ten formative years of my life. Like many, I feel nostalgic on New Year’s Eve as another year becomes history, and I feel especially nostalgic as the final hours of this decade ...

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A Travel Guide to the Jewish Caribbean and Latin America

Practical, Anecdotal, Adventurousby Ben G. FrankA practical, anecdotal, and adventurous journey through historic Jewish Caribbean and South America, including kosher restaurants, cafes, synagogues, and museums, plus cultural and heritage sites.Included are the still vital historic communities in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, and other Caribbean and Latin American countries. This is a tremendous work encompassing history, culture, and modern ...

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A Taste of Challah – A Comprehensive Guide to Challah and Bread Baking

Tamar AnshPublisher: FeldheimWho can resist the mouth-watering fragrance of freshly baked challah, wafting through a Jewish home? Yet how many potential bakers are intimidated by the seemingly esoteric art of challah and bread baking? This book unlocks the secrets of challah baking, making delicious, perfect challos, breads, rolls, and other yeast-dough treats accessible to all. Beautiful photographs, inspiring stories, and ...

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A Taste of Challah

A Comprehensive Guide to Challah and Bread Bakingby Tamar AnshWho can resist the mouth watering fragrance of freshly baked challah, wafting through a Jewish home? Yet how many potential bakers are intimidated by the seemingly esoteric art of challah and bread baking? This book unlocks the secrets of challah baking, making delicious, perfect challos, breads, rolls, and other yeast-dough treats ...

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A Table For One: Under The Light Of Jerusalem

Aron Appelfeld, Meir Appelfeld, Aloma HalterPublisher: Toby PressA Table For One is an interchange between one artist and another, father and son, about their city, Jerusalem. It brings together an unknown side of Aharon Appelfeld’s writing, with the subtle, haunting paintings of his son, Meir Appelfeld, who studied fine art at the Royal Academy of Art, London, and exhibits widely.In ...

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A Spy in Canaan

My Life as a Jewish American Businessman Who Spied for Israelby Howard H. Schack and H. Paul JeffersHere is the true story of the most unlikely spy of all: Howard H. Schack, a middle-aged businessman from suburban Westchester County, N.Y. For 15 years, unbeknownst to even his family and friends, he lived a life of danger working for the Mossad, ...

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A Spiritual Life : A Jewish Feminist Journey

Merle FeldPublisher: SUNYExplores the complex facets of a Jewish woman’s spiritual coming-of-age, capturing the emotional and spiritual reality of contemporary Jews as well as religious seekers of all types.A unique memoir that interweaves poetry, narrative, meditation, and social history, A Spiritual Life explores the complex facets of a Jewish woman’s spiritual coming-of-age, capturing the emotional and spiritual reality of contemporary ...

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A Spectacle of Corruption : A Novel

Benjamin Weaver, the quick-witted pugilist turned private investigator, returns in David Liss’s sequel to the Edgar Award-winning novel, A Conspiracy of Paper.}}Moments after his conviction for a murder he did not commit, at a trial presided over by a judge determined to find him guilty, Benjamin Weaver is accosted by a stranger who cunningly slips a lockpick and a file ...

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A Rumor About the Jews: Reflections on Antisemitism and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

Stephen Eric Bonner“Finally there is a comprehensive, contemporary look at the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion! Recently there has been a reprinting of studies of this odd but influential work from the distant past and a reediting of the English text, but no scholar until Stephen Eric Bronner has risked taking on the complex and convoluted history of ...

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A Place in the Tent: Intermarriage and Conservative Judaism

Written by a consortium of Conservative rabbis, This document argues for the need to finde a meaningful place in contemporary Conservative Jewish institutions for intermarried households.}}A Place in the Tent combines a thoughtful respect for halachic }principles with a realistic consideration of social/demographic realities. The range of rabbinic views, along with the collection of personal stories, have enriched my understanding ...

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A People Who Live Apart: Jewish Identity and the Future of Israel

Els Van Diggele, Jeannette K. Ringold (translator)Publisher: Prometheus BooksFifty years after the founding of the state, the question still remains where the balance between Israel as Jewish state and Israel as democratic state can be found. The Jews returned to Palestine to found a Jewish state, whatever that might mean, but not to establish a pluralistic country or a haven ...

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A Passover Ritual for Students of A Course in Miracles

This Haggadah reminds us that the Holy Spirit can use anything, even the historic enslavement in Egypt, for God’s purposes. This ritual is built around Course themes of recognizing that all oppression is projection and letting go of the past in favor of focusing on the present. This ritual includes stories from Holocaust survivors who studied A Course in Miracles ...

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