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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $2.00
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Manufacturer: Paraclete Press (MA)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lauren F. Winner
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Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 2007-02-28
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Reading Level: 161
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $6.29
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Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Shalom Auslander
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Publisher: Riverhead Trade
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Edition: Reprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2008-10-07
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: A New York Times Notable Book, and a “chaotic, laugh riot”(San Francisco Chronicle) of a memoir— first time in trade paperback.
Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he could not find the path to a life where he didn’t struggle daily with the fear of God’s formidable wrath. Foreskin’s Lament reveals Auslander’s “painfully, cripplingly, incurably, miserably religious” youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. His combination of unrelenting humor and anger renders a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith and family.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $2.49
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Manufacturer: Riverhead Hardcover
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Shalom Auslander
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Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
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Publication Date: 2007-10-04
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he could not find his way to a life where he didn't struggle against God daily.
Foreskin's Lament reveals Auslander's youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. Auslander remembers his youthful attempt to win the "blessing bee" (the Orthodox version of a spelling bee), his exile to an Orthodox-style reform school in Israel after he's caught shoplifting Union Bay jeans from the mall, and his fourteen mile hike to watch the New York Rangers play in Madison Square Garden without violating the Sabbath. Throughout, Auslander struggles to understand God and His complicated, often contradictory laws. He tries to negotiate with God and His representatives-a day of sin-free living for a day of indulgence, a blessing for each profanity. But ultimately, Shalom settles for a peaceful cease-fire, a standoff with God, and accepts the very slim remaining hope that his newborn son might live free of guilt, doubt, and struggle.
Auslander's combination of unrelenting humor and anger--one that draws comparisons to memoirists David Sedaris and Dave Eggers--renders a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith, family, and community.
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Price: $11.99
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Sale: $7.08
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Manufacturer: NuVision Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gilbert, K. Chesterson
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Publisher: NuVision Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 210
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Publication Date: 2007-07-08
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called "Heretics" because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is unavoidably affirmative and therefore unavoidably autobiographical. The writer has been driven back upon somewhat the same difficulty as that which beset Newman in writing his Apologia; he has been forced to be egotistical only in order to be sincere. While everything else may be different the motive in both cases is the same. It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. The book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle and its answer. It deals first with all the writer's own solitary and sincere speculations and then with all the startling style in which they were all suddenly satisfied by the Christian Theology. The writer regards it as amounting to a convincing creed. But if it is not that it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence. -- G. K. Chesterton
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.72
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Manufacturer: Trumpeter
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alan Morinis
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Publisher: Trumpeter
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Edition: 1st Shambhala Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296.832
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Publication Date: 2007-05-08
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: How can a person be generous to the poor when his own bank account is almost empty? Mussar, a thousand-year-old Jewish spiritual tradition, offers answers to this and many other questions regarding the distance between religious ideals and everyday realities, as Alan Morinis explains in Climbing Jacob's Ladder. Morinis, a Canadian baby boomer who grew up to become a Rhodes Scholar, anthropologist, and film producer, discovered Mussar teachings at the low point of his midlife crisis. After he made some high-flying business deals that crashed, Morinis found reassurance in the Mussar idea that human life is holy and people can improve themselves. And Mussar, a system of ethical discipline conceived by Orthodox Jews to help them meet the demanding requirements of observant life, does seem perfectly designed for readers seeking step-by-step instruction for building or rebuilding their spiritual lives. In Climbing Jacob's Ladder Morinis tells the story of how he used Mussar to climb back up to holy life and invites readers to come along on his ascent. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $10.56
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bradley Shavit Artson
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 222.107
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: “Like any classic, the Torah appears in different guises with each rereading. Its infinite layers of meaning and depth offer the opportunity to harvest anew, without any fear of exhausting its supply of wisdom, counsel, and kedushah (holiness). To encounter Torah is to encounter God.”
--from the Introduction In this inspiring collection, Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson illuminates the sacred text at the heart of Jewish spirituality. Enlightening and original, The Everyday Torah brings the ancient text to life with poignant reflections that will guide to you to a deeper understanding of the Torah, of Judaism, of yourself. "Torah goes its weekly way, and we go ours, and do the two paths ever cross? They cross often in many minds and hearts, but when it is Bradley Shavit Artson who provides their point of intersection, the crossroads widens into a town square."
--Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography "Every page is a joy to read. Many, many readers will treasure this book."
--Richard Elliott Friedman, author of Commentary on the Torah and Who Wrote the Bible? "Rabbi Bradley Artson remains one of the most inviting of modern day teachers of Torah. This book will offer needed guidance and inspiration to all who turn its pages."
--Rabbi David Ellenson, Ph.D., president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $8.19
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Manufacturer: Schocken
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sue Fishkoff
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Publisher: Schocken
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296.833220973
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Publication Date: 2005-01-04
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: “Excuse me, are you Jewish?” With these words, the relentlessly cheerful, ideologically driven emissaries of Chabad-Lubavitch approach perfect strangers on street corners throughout the world in their ongoing efforts to persuade their fellow Jews to live religiously observant lives. In The Rebbe’s Army, award-winning journalist Sue Fishkoff gives us the first behind-the-scenes look at this small Brooklyn-based group of Hasidim and the extraordinary lengths to which they take their mission of outreach.
They seem to be everywhere—in big cities, small towns, and suburbs throughout the United States, and in sixty-one countries around the world. They light giant Chanukah menorahs in public squares, run “Chabad houses” on college campuses from Berkeley to Cambridge, give weekly bible classes in the Capitol basement
in Washington, D.C., run a nonsectarian drug treatment center in Los Angeles, sponsor the world’s biggest Passover Seder in Nepal, establish synagogues, Hebrew schools, and day-care centers in places that are often indifferent and occasionally hostile to their outreach efforts. They have built a billion-dollar international empire, with their own news service, publishing house, and hundreds of Websites.
Who are these people? How successful are they in making Jews more observant? What influence does their late Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (who some thought was the Messiah), continue to have on his followers? Fishkoff spent a year interviewing Lubavitch emissaries from Anchorage to Miami and has written an engaging and fair-minded account of a Hasidic group whose motives and methodology continue to be the subject of speculation and controversy.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.04
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hella Winston
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.6968332097471
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Publication Date: 2006-11-01
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Reading Level: 190
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Description: When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to escape it. Unchosen tells the stories of these "rebel" Hasidim, serious questioners who long for greater personal and intellectual freedom than their communities allow. In her new Preface, Winston discusses the passionate reactions the book has elicited among Hasidim and non-Hasidim alike.
Named one of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Religion Books of 2005.
Hella Winston is pursuing her Ph.D. in sociology at the Graduate Center for the City University of New York. She lives in New York City.
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Price: $6.00
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Sale: $5.97
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Manufacturer: University of Scranton Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marc B. Shapiro
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Publisher: University of Scranton Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296.8342092
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Publication Date: 2006-06-05
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Reading Level: 106
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Description: One of the foremost scholars of the Talmud in the last century, Saul Lieberman (1898–1983) is also an intriguing and controversial figure. Highly influential in Orthodox society, he left Israel in 1940 to accept an appointment at the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Conservative institution. During his forty years at the Seminary, Lieberman served in the Rabbinical Assembly as one of the most important arbiters of Jewish law, though his decisions were often too progressive to be recognized by the Orthodox. Marc B. Shapiro here considers Lieberman’s experiences to examine the conflict between Jewish Orthodoxy and Conservatism in the mid-1900s. This invaluable scholarly resource also includes a Hebrew appendix and previously unpublished letters from Lieberman.
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Price: $29.99
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Sale: $19.42
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Manufacturer: Mesorah Publications, Limited
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mordechai Becher
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Publisher: Mesorah Publications, Limited
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296
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Publication Date: 2005-11-07
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Reading Level: 518
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Description: Gateway to Judaism delivers an engaging insider look at the mindset, values, and practices of contemporary traditional Judaism. Rabbi Becher demonstrates that Judaism today is anything but anachronistic rites and disjointed rituals. Rather, his book opens a portal to a vibrant lifestyle that brings joy and meaning to Jewish living. Based on years of answering thousands of challenging inquiries, Becher's work blends elements of Jewish philosophy and law with an intensely practical explanation of how Jews actually live.
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