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Chanukah Activity Book, The
Judy Dick
Item #: 101253
This is the way that Chanukah was meant to be celebrated!
The Chanukah Activity Book is overflowing with games and activities to use during the Festival of Lights. Judy Dick, author of The Seder Activity Book, h...
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Holy Days Holy Ways
Sharon Halper, Illustrated by Lisa Rauchwerger
Item #: 102073
Introduce your primary-grade students to the basics of Jewish holidays and tikkun olam at the same time. These four-page pamphlets are the perfect way into the complete year of Jewish holidays. From Rosh Hashanah to Shavuot, the Jewish calendar is replete with joyous occasions of all ki...
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Seder Activity Book, The
Written and Illustrated by Judy Dick
Item #: 101097
Here are 4 questions that occur at many Passover seder tables: Is it dinner yet?, What does this mean to me?, Why can't this be more fun?, and (again) is it dinner yet? The Seder Activity Book attempts to give an answer to these questions. With quiet games and activities tha...
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Book of the Jewish Year, The
Stephen M. Wylen
Item #: 101068
An engaging, full-color introduction to the Jewish calendar. This is the perfect text about the Jewish holiday cycle for students in the intermediate grades. Each chapter examines the history and practice of a holiday or festival, including relevant mitzvot (commandments) and minhagim (regionall...
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Chanukah Blessing, The
Peninnah Schram
Item #: 101973
The stranger walked slowly past many houses, looking carefully at each one as he passed. What was he looking for? "Aha!" he called out softly, and the coldness of his breath formed a puff of white smoke. "Here is the house I am looking for." And he stopped a certain cottage. It was a ti...
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Chanukah on the Prairie
Written by Burt E. Schuman, Illustrated by Rosalind Charney Kaye
Item #: 381780
Chanukah On The Prairie is the perfect introduction to a little-known slice of American Jewish history. As many Eastern European Jews immigrated to America, a small few traveled beyond New York City to the West.
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Eichah: A Modern Commentary on Lamentations
Translation and Commentary by Leonard S. Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Item #: 516790
From the authors of the classic commentaries on Jonah, Ruth, the Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, and Pirke Avot comes this new volume on the Book of Lamentations. Using commentary from the Targum, Rashi, and Ibn Ezra, as well as contemporary sources, Rabbis Kravitz and Olitsky shed new lig...
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Faithful Spirit, A: Preparing for Chanukah
Edited with Commentary by Benjamin Levy
Item #: 381779
Chanukah is one of the most celebrated of Jewish holidays, but how much do we really know and understand about it? A Faithful Spirit is based on a midrashic text, M'gillat Antiochus, which is traditionally read during Chanukah in Italian and Yemenite synagogues the same way that M'gillat Esther i...
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Jonah: A Modern Commentary
Translation and commentary by Leonard S. Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Item #: 160525
From the authors of classic modern commentaries on Ruth, the Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, and Pirke Avot comes this new volume on the Book of Jonah.
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Kohelet: A Modern Commentary on Ecclesiastes
Translation and Commentary by Leonard S. Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Item #: 160507
Using the classical commentaries of Rashi, Ibn Ezra and others, as well as modern critical scholarship, the authors have produced a line-by-line translation and commentary to accompany the Hebrew text of the Book of Ecclesiastes. The often-quoted Book includes both well-known and quizzical texts,...
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Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics
Edited and translated by Leonard Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky, Foreword by W. Gunther Plaut
Item #: 160502
This edition presents a fresh, new approach to a Jewish classic. Editors Kravitz and Olitzky reinvigorate the study of Pirke Avot ( "Ethics of the Fathers") with bold new insights from many corners of the modern Jewish world. Along with traditional commentaries from Rashi and Maimonides, r...
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Ruth: A Modern Commentary
Edited and translated by Leonard S. Kravitz and Kerry M. Olitzky
Item #: 160520
A chronicle of loss and despair, love, romance, and hope, the Book of Ruth includes themes and lessons applicable to the lives of contemporary readers: rebuilding a life after extreme loss; conversion to Judaism; women's roles, sexuality and legal status; finding love again; and more. This work ...
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Shemonah Perakim: Treatise on the Soul
Edited and translated by Kerry M. Olitzky and Leonard S. Kravitz
Item #: 160508
From the authors who brought you the highly acclaimed Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics comes another thoughtful work exploring a Jewish classic. This most recent publication, Shemonah Perakim, explores an important work of the twelfth-century scholar Moses Maimonides...
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Book of the Jewish Year, The: Teacher's Guide
Ellen Greenspan
Item #: 208039
An engaging, full-color introduction to the Jewish calendar, this is the perfect text about the Jewish holiday cycle for students in the intermediate grades. Each chapter examines the history and practice of a holiday or festival, including relevant mitzvot and minhagim; Hebrew and English blessi...
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Chocolate Chip Challah
Written and illustrated by Lisa Rauchwerger
Item #: 510607
What's for dinner tonight? Artist, author, and cook Lisa Rauchwerger serves up mouthwatering meals and memories in her delightful cookbook. Using the Jewish calendar as a framework, both parent and child can cook up tasty treats all year long.
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