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Beyond A Reasonable Doubt: Revised And Expanded Original Edition

Beyond A Reasonable Doubt: Revised And Expanded Original Edition

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BEYOND SURVIVAL: A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF ROSH HASHANAH

Beyond Survival: A Journey to the Heart of Rosh Hashanah, Its Prayers, and Life Hardcover

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Apisdorf has done it again. The long-awaited sequel to the Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Survival Kit is here. Whether this is your third Rosh Hashanah or your thirtieth, Beyond Survival will take you on a journey to new views of insight and inspiration. This book does more than just explain concepts, it guides you along a path of personal discovery and spiritual growth. In addition to eye-opening essays, Beyond Survival is also a companion to the prayer book. It contains a complete English-Hebrew text of the Amidah (not including Mussaf) along with insights, reflections, and explanations that unlock the rich, inner world of the prayers. Shimon Apisdorf has helped thousands survive the holidays - now it's time to fly!

Beyond the Tears: Helping Jewish Kids Cope With Death PB

Beyond the Tears: Helping Jewish Kids Cope With Death PB

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This book serves as a way for young people to pour out their feelings in a constructive, self-fulfilling manner. Using real-life examples, the author shows how others have coped with death. Includes information on Jewish mourning practices, the answer to questions kids frequently ask about bereavement, and a Memory Book that helps bridge the past to the present and the future.
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu

Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu

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A deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel -- its history, present, and future -- without first understanding the life and worldview of the man who leads it

Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all of his own making, and may soon be ousted from the office he has held longer than any prior Israeli Prime Minister outside of David Ben Gurion. But Bibi, as he is known by friend and foe alike, is no stranger to controversy. For many in Israel and elsewhere, he is an embarrassment, a threat to democracy, even a precursor to Donald Trump. He nevertheless continues to dominate Israeli public life -- and he may yet survive his current crises, the most challenging of his career. How can we explain Netanyahu's rise, his hold on Israeli politics, and his outsized role on the world's stage?

In Bibi, the Haaretz journalist Anshel Pfeffer argues that we must view Netanyahu as representing the triumph of the underdogs in the Zionist enterprise. Born in 1949, one year after the state of Israel itself, Netanyahu came of age in a nation dominated by liberal, secular Zionists. Yet Netanyahu's grandfather and father bequeathed to him a brand of Zionism integrating Jewish nationalism and religious traditionalism, and he identified with the groups at the margins of Israeli society: right-wing Revisionists, orthodox, Mizrahi Jews, and small-time professionals living in the new towns and cities dotting the Israeli landscape. Netanyahu cultivated each faction individually and then fused them into a coalition that has frequently proven unstoppable in Israeli politics.

Netanyahu is also a child of America, where he spent many years as a young man, and where he learned the techniques of modern political campaigns as well as the necessity of controlling the media cycle. The product of the affluent East Coast Jewish community and the Reagan era, Netanyahu's politics and worldview were formed as much by American Cold War conservatism as by his family's hardline right-wing Zionism.

As Pfeffer demonstrates in this penetrating biography, Netanyahu's influence will endure even if his career soon comes to an end. The Israel he has helped make is a hybrid of ancient phobia and high-tech hope, tribalism and globalism -- just like the man himself.

BIG BOOK OF JEWISH HUMOR- 25TH ANNIVERSARY

BIG BOOK OF JEWISH HUMOR- 25TH ANNIVERSARY

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A collection of Jewish humor from every source imaginable: literature, jokes, children's books, magazines, comics, newspapers and others, from Woody Allen to Israel Zangwill.
BILVAVI ON THE PARSHA: BEREISHIS, SHEMOS

Bilvavi on the Parshah Bereshis and Shemos

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Commentary on the weekly Parsha by the author of Bivavi Mishkan Evneh Bilvavi On The Parsha is an English adaptation of the Motzei Shabbos drashot on the weekly parshah given by the author of the Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh and Da Et Atzmecha series. Those who are seeking greater closeness to Hashem, Torah study, and character improvement, will find in it a treasury of Torah wisdom full of depth, as well as practice advice, in all areas of spiritual improvement. The Rav has delivered thousands of drashot on a countless array of topics pertaining to spiritual improvement and avodat Hashem. In these drashot, you will analyze the weekly parshah as never before. Each parshah has a timely lesson with subtle applications to our own soul. You will gain knowledge of important, fundamental concepts in a Torah Jew's life, in a way that is both deep and simple.

BIRTH OF THE SPOKEN WORD

Birth of the Spoken Word: Personal Prayer as the Goal of Creation

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BIRTH of the Spoken Word is a master class on the art of prayer and the prayerful relationship. Emotionally written, yet well-sourced, BOTSW presents a richly textured analysis of five key passages from the opening chapters of Sefer Bereishis (Genesis), placing tefillah (prayer) at the heart of the creation story. The book integrates a wide range of Jewish scholarship—from the Tanach to the Talmud, the early and later biblical commentaries, and the Masters of Chassidus and Jewish thought (the Maharal, the Ramchal, Rebbe Nachman, the Ba’al HaTanya, Rav Tzadok, Rav Kook, Rav Dessler and Rav Soloveitchik to name a few)—packing a spiritual punch and revitalizing our relationship with Hashem and with others from the inside out.

Bone Soup and Flipped Bread: The Yemenite Jewish Kitchen

Bone Soup and Flipped Bread: The Yemenite Jewish Kitchen

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Notable is the strong impact of Yemenite cuisine on today's Israeli food scene. A chapter on the indispensable Yemenite larder is followed by three sections devoted to everyday recipes and recipes for foods that traditionally accompany life-cycle events and holidays. These are prefaced by descriptions of the many colorful customs central to the celebrations, Yemenite cooks' personal stories, tips and above all, their deep desire to preserve their beloved food heritage. The book concludes with informative appendices and an extensive bibliography.

  • Over a hundred traditional recipes for everyday, the life cycle and holidays
  • Richly illustrated with photographs both modern and archival
  • Anecdotes and interesting facts
  • Historical and ethnographic information on the Yemenite Jewish culture
  • Appendices including kitchen information, chronological guide, maps, shopping guide (where and how to purchase products), recipe index and an extensive bibliography
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    Book of Blessings Heb (Hebrew Edition)

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    This book, intended for the entire family, features an array of blessings, dedications, prayers, and hymns for the Sabbath and holidays. The book is divided into separate sections, from the Sabbath to every holiday. Each section includes answers to integral questions of every type.

    GUTNICK HAFTAROS

    Book of Haftaros - Gutnick Edition (English and Hebrew Edition)

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    The Gutnick Chumash has gained wide acclaim as one of the favorite Chumashim available today. It incorporates a flowing English translation of the Torah which is loyal to Rashi. The 'Classic questions' are drawn from a range of commentators, Midrash and Talmud, which are then ingeniously brought together in the Toras Menachem commentary. It is the first Chumash to include a commentary anthologized from the works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Chumash also boasts a large sampling of inspirational Chasidic thoughts and insights into the Parsha, as well as practical lessons for our daily lives. The diagrams, charts, and illustrations all add to make this the perfect Chumash for layman or scholar. Beautifully bound in a hand-tooled leather style cover, both inside and outside are sure to impress. This elegantly slip-cased Book of Haftaros is the ultimate companion to the Gutnick series, with a new translation accordind to the metzudos as well historical information and Chasidic insights.

    Book of Lost Names

    Book of Lost Names

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    "A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten." --Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday

    Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this "sweeping and magnificent" (Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue) historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker's Wife.

    Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in more than sixty years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.

    The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin's Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don't know where it came from--or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer, but does she have the strength to revisit old memories?

    As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris and find refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, where she began forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears.

    An engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil.

    Book of New Israeli Food

    Book of New Israeli Food

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    In this stunning new work that is at once a coffee-table book to browse and a complete cookbook, Janna Gur brings us the sumptuous color, variety, and history of today's Israeli cuisine, beautifully illustrated by Eilon Paz, a photographer who is intimate with the local scene.

    In Gur's captivating introduction, she describes Israeli food as a product of diverse cultures: the Jews of the Diaspora, settling in a homeland that was new to them, brought their far-flung cuisines to the table even as they looked to their Arab neighbors for additional ingredients and ideas. The delicious, easy-to-follow recipes represent all of these influences, and include some creative interpretations of classics by celebrated Israeli chefs: Beetroot and Pomegranate Salad, Fish Falafel in Spicy Harissa Mayonnaise, Homemade Shawarma, Chreime-North African Hot Fish Stew, Roasted Chicken Drumsticks in Carob Syrup. With favorite recipes for the Sabbath (Sweet Challah Traditional Chopped Liver, Chocolate and Halva Coffeecake) and for holidays (Balkan Potato and Leek Pancakes, Flourless Chocolate and Pistachio Cake), this book offers a unique culinary experience for every occasion. All of this is enriched by Paz's gorgeous and vibrantly colored photographs and by short narratives about significant aspects of Israel's diverse cuisine, such as the generous and unique Israeli breakfast (which grew out of the needs of Kibbutz life), locally produced cheeses that now rival those of Europe, and a dramatic renaissance of wine culture in this ancient land.

    "In less than thirty years," Janna Gur writes, "Israeli society has graduated... to a true gastronomic haven." Here she gives us a book that does full, delectable justice to the significance of Israeli food today-Mediterranean at its heart, richly spiced, and imbued with cross-cultural flavors.

    Book of our Heritage - PKT

    Book of our Heritage - Pocketsize

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    This beloved classic, completely revised and annotated for the contemporary reader, explores the holidays, Festivals and fast days of the Jewish calendar and explains their laws and customs. Midrashic commentaries and insights of great Jewish thinkers and spiritual leaders enhance the heartwarming, inspiring text. Now available in Pocket size, the Book of Our Heritage, three-volume gift-boxed set is the perfect companion to take with you anywhere you go.

    Book of Our Heritage: H/C

    Book of Our Heritage: H/C

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    This beloved classic, completely revised and annotated for the contemporary reader, explores the holidays, Festivals and fast days of the Jewish calendar and explains their laws and customs. Midrashic commentaries and insights of great Jewish thinkers and spiritual leaders enhance the heartwarming, inspiring text. Now available in Pocket size, the Book of Our Heritage, three-volume gift-boxed set is the perfect companion to take with you anywhere you go.

    PSALMS FRENCH/HEBREW

    Book of Psalms - with French Translation

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    The entire Book of Psalms with French translation

    Easy to read font. Hebrew and French on facing pages

    Pocket-size, Hardback, attractive cover. Lovely gift

    Whatever the situation, in times of joy or stress, Tehillim will speak the words of your heart. This small convenient size with translation will fit easily into your pocket or bag giving the words added depth and meaning.

    A-S TEHILLIM INTRL HC

    Book of Psalms With an Interlinear Translation: General Use Bible; Psalms Maroon Binding, White Edging, Schottenstein Edition (Artscroll (Mesorah Series)) (Hebrew Edition) Hardcover

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    This bible also includes an interlinear translation.
    Breaking Breads:A New World of Israeli Baking

    Breaking Breads:A New World of Israeli Baking

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    Named one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, The Washington Post, and more

    Israeli baking encompasses the influences of so many regions--Morocco, Yemen, Germany, and Georgia, to name a few--and master baker Uri Scheft seamlessly marries all of these in his incredible baked goods at his Breads Bakery in New York City and Lehamim Bakery in Tel Aviv. Nutella-filled babkas, potato and shakshuka focaccia, and chocolate rugelach are pulled out of the ovens several times an hour for waiting crowds. In Breaking Breads, Scheft takes the combined influences of his Scandinavian heritage, his European pastry training, and his Israeli and New York City homes to provide sweet and savory baking recipes that cover European, Israeli, and Middle Eastern favorites. Scheft sheds new light on classics like challah, babka, and ciabatta--and provides his creative twists on them as well, showing how bakers can do the same at home--and introduces his take on Middle Eastern daily breads like kubaneh and jachnun. The instructions are detailed and the photos explanatory so that anyone can make Scheft's Poppy Seed Hamantaschen, Cheese Bourekas, and Jerusalem Bagels, among other recipes. With several key dough recipes and hundreds of Israeli-, Middle Eastern-, Eastern European-, Scandinavian-, and Mediterranean-influenced recipes, this is truly a global baking bible.
    Breathtaking Panorama: A Sweeping Thematic Approach To Yetzias Mitzrayim

    Breathtaking Panorama: A Sweeping Thematic Approach To Yetzias Mitzrayim

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    Since early childhood, from Seder to Seder, we have studied our story of Yetzias Mitzrayim. How is this book different from all other books?

    In these pages, the timeless pillars of family, faith, and freedom form the framework of our new understanding of the Exodus.

    Family — how to view marital harmony and childrearing

    Faith — how to find a loving God in the challenges of life

    Freedom — how to understand its synergistic relationship to responsibility

    With this new, panoramic methodology — linking clues from extensive Torah sources — we connect the dots of the “known” in the Yetzias Mitzrayim story to reveal the “unknown” astounding patterns that were lying right in front of us waiting to be discovered. This creative meta view opens up new possibilities for the reader to gain richer meaning in all areas of Torah and life.

    “A masterful and sweeping work.”

    Rav Aharon Feldman

    “I was astounded by the magnificent tapestry Rabbi Sklare weaves, with brilliance and depth, from so many different sources. In a soundbite generation, it is amazing to see the patience and effort that went into developing these essays.”

    Rav Ahron Lopiansky

    Rabbi Yonah Sklare is a rosh kollel in Baltimore, MD, as well as a maggid shiur at Congregation Shomrei Emunah. His refreshingly creative approach to learning as well as his captivating presentation style have attracted a diverse and beloved following. He lectures at numerous local institutions, including Women’s Institute of Torah Seminary, as well as out of town and online. Rabbi Sklare received semichah and his PhD in Talmudic Law from Ner Israel Rabbinical College. He can be reached at rabbisklare@gmail.com.

    BRESLEV PIRKEI AVOT

    Breslov Pirkey Avot - Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

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    The first ever English edition of Breslov Pirkey Avot. The teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1722-1810) illuminates Pirkei Avot. Rabbi Dovid Sears has translated and edited each excerpt with background material to make it readable and understandable as Breslov Insights. He also has made a masterpiece of the explanation of each Mishnah in Pirkey Avot with his original Digest of Commentaries, presenting them concisely and elegantly. Further, each Mishnah is accompanied by a short story or a Breslov thought which expresses the ideal of the Mishnah in practice.

    Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales

    Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales

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    Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic tales as richly imagined fictions, drawing us into the lives of such characters as the woman who risks her life for a sister suspected of adultery; a humble schoolteacher who rescues his village from drought; and a wife who dresses as a prostitute to seduce her pious husband in their garden. Breathing new life into an ancient text, A Bride for One Night offers a surprising and provocative read, both for anyone already intimate with the Talmud and for anyone interested in one of the most influential works of Jewish literature. Ruth Calderon has a doctorate in Talmud from Hebrew University and was elected to the Israeli Knesset in January 2013. She became a national celebrity when she taught a page of Talmud in the Israeli parliament, arguing that the text was the heritage of the entire Jewish people. She is founder and former director of Elul Beit Midrash in Jerusalem and founder and chair of Alma: Home for Hebrew Culture in Tel Aviv. Ilana Kurshan is the books editor of Lilith magazine. She is the author of Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? as well as several articles about Talmud, literature, and Jewish life.
    BRIDGING TRADITIONS

    BRIDGING TRADITIONS

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    As the rabbi of a Sephardic synagogue for over twenty years who is himself of Ashkenazic descent and trained in Ashkenazic yeshivot, Rabbi Haim Jachter has a unique vantage point from which to observe the differences in customs and halachot between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. In Bridging Traditions, Rabbi Jachter applies his wide-ranging expertise to explicating an encyclopedic array of divergences between Ashkenazic and Sephardic halachic practice, while also capturing the diversity within different Sephardic communities. Bridging Traditions is essential reading for Jews of all origins who are interested in understanding their own practices and appreciating those of their brethren, and in seeing the kaleidoscope of halachic observance as a multi-faceted expression of an inner divine unity.
    BRIS MILAH SECRETS

    BRIS MILAH SECRETS

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    Bris Milah: Circumcision

    Bris Milah: Circumcision

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    The traditions, laws and customs of this momentous occasion presented by a leading Mohel. Includes explanations and backgrounds; a section answering many questions concerning the naming of a child; laws pertaining to adoptiions; medical causes for postponement; a Bris on the Sabbath and Festivals, etc.; text of the ritual and prayers with translation and commentary.

    BROCHOS HANDBOOK

    Brochos Handbook (pb)

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    A quick reference guide to the fore-blessings and after-blessings of over 700 foods! Never be caught not knowing what bracha to say on a food item again! This handy volume, taken from The Halachos of Brochos, contains concise explanations of the proper blessings on foods whose bracha might be in question.

    Bronx Heart Jerusalem Soul

    Bronx Heart Jerusalem Soul

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    Bronx native Tyra Miller grows up feeling inadequate, watching her domineering sister, Jessie, endure the pain of a disfiguring condition and a grueling regime of physical therapy. Tyra discovers acts of courage by her devoted Jewish family, leaving her wondering if she'd be capable of making similar sacrifices.

    Despite her roles as a loving daughter, loyal sister, and talented student, Tyra suspects she is, at heart, a coward. She's about to discover how wrong she is.

    Her guilt propels her on an academic journey to Israel where she falls in love with the country's rich ancient history, modern development, and people. Drama ensues when complicated relationships develop that distract Tyra from her studies. Then, in May of 1967, a tense, month-long threat of war and annihilation erupt around her. Life and death decisions abound.

    In June, as the Six-Day War breaks out, Tyra's insecurity will transform into strength and a quiet, determined heroism, as she-and a nation-face an undetermined future.

    The story of one young woman's search for her identity, Bronx Heart-Jerusalem Soul immerses the reader in an adventurous, heartbreaking, dangerous, and inspirational journey through life in all its multifaceted complexity.

    Bronx native Tyra Miller grows up feeling inadequate, watching her domineering sister, Jessie, endure the pain of a disfiguring condition and a grueling regime of physical therapy. Tyra discovers acts of courage by her devoted Jewish family, leaving her wondering if she'd be capable of making similar sacrifices.

    Despite her roles as a loving daughter, loyal sister, and talented student, Tyra suspects she is, at heart, a coward. She's about to discover how wrong she is.

    Her guilt propels her on an academic journey to Israel where she falls in love with the country's rich ancient history, modern development, and people. Drama ensues when complicated relationships develop that distract Tyra from her studies. Then, in May of 1967, a tense, month-long threat of war and annihilation erupt around her. Life and death decisions abound.

    In June, as the Six-Day War breaks out, Tyra's insecurity will transform into strength and a quiet, determined heroism, as she — and a nation — face an undetermined future.

    The story of one young woman's search for her identity, Bronx Heart-Jerusalem Soul immerses the reader in an adventurous, heartbreaking, dangerous, and inspirational journey through life in all its multifaceted complexity.