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Did Moses Really Have Horns? And Other Myths About Jews and Judaism
Rifat Sonsino
Item #: 405400
Why did generations of people grow up thinking that Jews really had horns? Did Eve really eat an apple, and if not, why does everyone think she did? Did Noah’s ark really exist? Did Moses really write the Torah?
This fascinating book explores these and many other assumptio...
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Galilee Diary: Reflections on Daily Life in Israel
Marc Rosenstein
Item #: 549601
For most American Jews, Israel is only seen through the lens of the
political debate, the impressions of the news report, or the windows of a
tour bus. Begun as a weekly online essay in response to the Second
Intifada in 2000,
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What Happens After I Die? Jewish Views of Life After Death
Rifat Sonsino and Daniel B. Syme
Item #: 571201
Offers a wide spectrum of Jewish responses to the question of life after death. Classical answers are drawn from traditional Jewish literature. Modern Jewish thinkers, from all denominations in the Jewish community, add their personal notions of life after death.
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Finding God: Selected Responses (Revised Edition)
Rifat Sonsino and Daniel B. Syme
Item #: 571300
Finding God, by way of essays on significant Jewish thinkers, attempts to answer the questions looming above us all: What is God? Is there more than one God? How can we know God? What does God "want" from us? How does God relate to me? This latest edition of Finding God inclu...
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Many Faces of God, The
Rifat Sonsino
Item #: 168503
This latest book by Rabbi Sonsino, co-author of Finding God, takes up where that book leaves off. The Many Faces of God deals with contemporary Jewish images of God.Included in The Many Faces of God are the writings and ideas of such thinkers as Martin Buber, Mordecai Kapl...
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Duties of the Soul: The Role of Commandments in Liberal Judaism
Edited with an introduction by Niles E. Goldstein and Peter S. Knobel
Item #: 166003
This outstanding anthology of thirteen essays by esteemed leaders of the Reform rabbinate reexamines the role of mitzvot in liberal Judaism as viewed through philosophical, experiential, and practical contexts. In this groundbreaking collection, Niles E. Goldstein and Peter S. Knobel identify the...
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Finding Each Other In Judaism
Harold Schulweis
Item #: 166002
Drawing from both traditional and contemporary Jewish sources, this book explores Jewish life-cycle passages such as birth, bar/bat mitzvah, conversion, marriage, illness, and the end of life. Using profound insights, meditations and poetry on the events and rites that frame Jewish life, Rabbi Sc...
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Honest Answers to Your Child's Jewish Questions
Sharon G. Forman
Item #: 146059
What do you say when your five-year old asks, ?What does God look like?? or ?Why am I Jewish?? By middle school the questions are tougher: ?Is the Torah true?? ?Why do I have to learn Hebrew?? This incredible new book suggests successful responses to these questions and many more, summarizi...
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