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The alchemist's door
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Lisa Goldstein |
Fleeing to Prague to escape a demon attack, alchemist and astrologer John Dee assists a mystic rabbi in the creation of a clay Golem that will defend the city's Jewish Quarter and prevent the fulfill… |
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Making of a godol
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Noson Kamenetsky |
בשנת תשס"ב כתב הרב נתן קמינצקי, בנו של רבי יעקב קמינצקי, את הספר הזה בו הוא מתאר את חייהם של גדולי ישראל, לפני שנהיו גדולים.
מטבע הדברים ישנם שם תאורים שהם, כביכול, פחות מחמיאים לאותם רבנים מהרגילות… |
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The Lord is my shepherd
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Debbie Viguié |
As church secretary Cindy Preston prepares for the Easter service, she literally stumbles across a dead body in the sanctuary. A prominent church member has been stabbed to death in the locked church… |
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Prayers for the living
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Alan Cheuse |
Presented in a series of conversations between grandmother Minnie Bloch and her companions, Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio commentator on All Things Considered, unfolds a layered family portrait … |
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A Jew in America
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Arthur Hertzberg |
""I became an American by refusing to assimilate," writes Arthur Hertzberg in this long-awaited memoir. Throughout his life this world-renowned rabbi, activist, author, historian, public servant, and… |
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Twenty/twenty
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Morris B. Marǵolies |
viii, 263 p. ; 24 cm |
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The broken and the whole
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Charles S. Sherman |
"A wise, uplifting memoir about a rabbi's search for understanding and his discovery of hope and joy after his young son suffered a catastrophic brain-stem stroke that left him a quadriplegic and dep… |
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Jewish biblical legends
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Joel Stevens Allen |
"This book introduces Christian readers of the Bible to the otherworldy way in which the rabbis of ancient times interpreted sacred texts... Their interpretive insights were based upon immense knowle… |
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Jewish rabbi
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Mandy Ross |
In each book of the 'My Life, My Religion' series, a religious community leader describes his or her work and daily life. Each book is based on photographs specially taken to show the busy life of th… |
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L'chaim, a zayde adventure!
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Tamra L. Dollin |
This moving memoir chronicles the fifty year career of an American Reform rabbi. Written together during the final stages of his terminal illness, father and daughter give voice to one man's magic to… |
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The New Rabbi
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Stephen Fried |
"From award-winning journalist Stephen Fried comes a vividly intimate portrait of American Judaism today in which faith, family, and community are explored through the dramatic life of a landmark con… |
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Henry Cohen
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Jimmy Kessler |
As he goes about his daily rounds on December 10, 1945, Henry Cohen reflects upon his life and times, especially the sixty-two years he has served as Rabbi in Galveston, Texas. |
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Someday the rabbi will leave
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Harry Kemelman |
In his latest and most challenging case, Rabbi Small needs every ounce of his persistence, perspicacity, and chutzpah as he finds himself up against corruption in politics and a hit-and-run death tha… |
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Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
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Harry Kemelman |
The answer to the prayers of mystery fans everywhere? A Rabbi Small mystery - full of the wit and wisdom, persistence and chutzpah that put the Rabbi on bestseller lists every day of the week! Ever… |
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Three daughters
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin |
"Shoshanna, the youngest of the Wasserman sisters, is an inveterate control freak whose world turns upside down when her Filofax is scattered to the wind. The resulting chaos and the approach of a bi… |
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Why the Baal Shem Tov laughed
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Sterna Citron |
Retells legends of remarkable Chasidic rabbis, including the Baal Shem Tov, the Mezhirecher Magid, and Reb Zusha of Annapoli. |
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Ima on the bima
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Mindy Avra Portnoy |
Through the eyes of her daughter, describes the activities of Mindy Avra Portnoy in her job as a rabbi. |
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Our sages showed the way
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Yokheved Segel |
A collection of Midrashim stories with biographies of great rabbis and teachers of the Talmud. |
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Too much of a good thing
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Mira Wasserman |
After learning about Shabbat from his friend, Rabbi Judah, a Roman king decrees a bigger, better Shabbat in his kingdom, and the rabbi must come to teach him what truly makes Shabbat sweet. |
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Surfing rabbi
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Nachum Shifren |
269 p. : 22 cm |
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