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The High Holy Days - Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur - are for many Jews the highlight of the Jewish year. The liturgy for the Days of Awe are the longest and most complex of the year. Entering The High Holy Days provides historical background and interpretation of the ideas, practices, and liturgy and lends them contemporary relevance to today's Jews.

A colourful retelling of a fascinating yet little-known time of Jewish-American history

The Psalms have long brought comfort to those who mourn and have helped us find the spiritual in everyday life. This edition presents the new JPS translation, based on the original Hebrew text, as well as the entire range of Psalms interpretation and modern linguistic scholarship.

Offers readers fresh perspectives on the role gender plays in Bible translation. This title is suitable for those interested in a historically based picture of social gender roles in the Bible as well as those who have become accustomed to gender-sensitive English in other aspects of their lives.

Explores the role of Jewish women in the synagogue, in the family, and in the secular world. This title offers ways to change Jewish practices so that they more readily reflect feminine equality.

Suitable for Jewish learners and educators alike, this title provides a framework for exploring our thinking about God, prayer, and ritual, as well as social issues, such as charity, friendship, and justice.

Presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to catastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated in these recurring images of sin, martyrdom, and retribution that have sustained the Jewish people despite pogroms, massacres, and expulsions - from the destruction of the First Temple through the Holocaust to the eventual return to their homeland.

Provides information a kid could want to know about being Jewish. This title looks at key people and events in Jewish history; at holidays and customs; at the origins of Jewish names; and, more.

A thrilling young adult novel that captures the horrors of the Spanish Inquisistion and the strength and determination of one young girl to preserve her family and culture at any cost.

A collection of classical midrashic interpretation of the biblical "Book of Exodus". It offers an understanding of the history, beliefs, and practices of the earliest rabbis.

A collection of imaginative contemporary responses to the Bible. It includes poems from Jewish and non-Jewish writers alike and places them beside the biblical passages that were their inspiration.

An indispensable resource to those families considering or affected by adoption, this book takes an informed look at adoption from a Jewish perspective and will prepare readers for the many unforeseen challenges that may arise.

An update and revision of the original 1976 edition. This study presents a two-fold discussion: a basic survey of the structure and functions of the American Jewish community, and a suggestion as to how that community should be understood as a body politic, a collective unit that is not a state but is no less real from a political perspective.

The biography and selected letters of this literary great includes over 60 newly discovered letters written to many other literary giants of the time, including Robert Browning and William Morris.

Sheds light on the surprisingly diverse and shared visions for realizing Israel as a democratic Jewish state. Building on Arthur Hertzberg's classic, The Zionist Idea, Gil Troy explores the backstories, dreams, and legacies of more than 170 passionate Jewish visionaries from the 1800s to today.

Illuminating the ethical legacy of the biblical prophets, Path of the Prophets identifies the prophetic moment in the lives of eighteen biblical figures and demonstrates their compelling relevance to us today. Schwartz introduces the prophets with creative, first-person retellings of their decisive experiences, followed by key biblical narratives, context, and analysis.

Rashi, the medieval French rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (1040-1105), authored monumental commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Babylonian Talmud. With The JPS Rashi Discussion Torah Commentary, his commentary on the Torah - regarded as the most authoritative of all Torah commentaries - is finally accessible to the entire Jewish community.

Brings to life the realities teenagers in the Middle East face today, as politics and prejudice threaten to tear lives and relationships apart. At the same time, it serves as a testament to the power of love and friendship in an often chaotic world.

Set in 15th-century Greece, this young adult novel tells the story of an extraordinary friendship between two boys from different cultural backgrounds. A Shout in the Sunshine sheds light on an often forgotten part of Jewish history - the Greek Jewish experience. Set in tumultuous times, the book explores what happens when two distinct Jewish communities must learn to live together.

In this, his sequel to the best-selling The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning, Rabbi Lamm helps mourners not just get through their grief, but also grow through it. He gently steers mourners on the path that allows their sorrow to teach them important lessons about life. And he shows consolers how to listen and speak with their hearts so that they can provide real comfort to others.

Provides women with alternative daily prayers that were more specific to their needs. This title includes a Yiddish manuscript dating from the 17th century - a collection of prayers written specifically for a rich, pregnant woman.

Presents a dramatic portrait of Teddy Kolleck, whose vision of peace helped transform Jerusalem into an international center for religion and culture, and made him one of the most famous mayors in the world. This title can help young readers learn about the man who became one of the most daring leaders in Israel's early struggle for independence.

Presents a selection of the Torah teachings of the Sefat Emet - one of the last great masters of Polish Hasidism. This book focuses on the words of the Sefat Emet which create a remarkable work of Jewish scholarship.

This is the first book written by a Jewish woman from the Indian community of Cochin. Filled with rich descriptions of Jewish life in an exotic culture spanning several centuries, this work is both the story of the Jews of Cochin, Indiäand the tale of one remarkable woman.

A leading ethicist suggests ways to take the moral high road in one's personal life. In this topically relevant book on modern ethical issues, Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism's distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life, and what we should strive to be, both as individuals and as members of a community.

Focuses on the social aspects of the Jewish tradition, while tackling such timely topics as poverty, war, intrafaith and interfaith relations, and forgiveness. In addition, Rabbi Dorff discusses Jewish social ethics as they both relate to and contrast with Christian and American belief systems in modern society.

The modern Jew, living in a world of shattered beliefs and competing ideologies, is often confronted with questions of faith. In forthright, non-technical language, the author addresses the most difficult theological questions of our time and shows that there are still viable Jewish answers for even the greatest skeptics.

Debate and disputation are not only encouraged within Judaism but reside at the very heart of Jewish history and theology

Presents the comprehensive history of the turbulent and complex relationships in the Middle East that captures the people and the history.

Provides a clear and simple (but not simplistic) method for reading and understanding the weekly Torah portions. This is a how-to book, not an interpretive one. It is not a commentary on each week's reading, but rather an "instruction manual" on how each of us can read and interpret for ourselves the 54 Torah portions of the year.