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1) Judaism
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Discusses the historical origins, teachings, practices, persecution, spread, and challenges of Judaism.
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"No celebration of Hanukkah would be complete without recounting the events of more than two thousand years ago that the holiday commemorates. In a simple yet dramatic text and vibrant paintings, the story of the courageous Maccabees and the miracle that took place in the Temple in Jerusalem is retold."--Amazon.com.
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Hyperion
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When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
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aBrilliance Audio
Pub. Date
c2007
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7 CDs (9 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Discovering an ancient text that reveals for every generation thirty-six secret individuals whose lives affect the fate of the world, professor David Shepherd learns that all but three of the current generation's Hidden Ones met unnatural deaths.
6) Disobedience
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
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x, 443 pages ; 21 cm
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The pampered daughter of a wealthy Hasidic businessman, Batsheva Ha-Levi grows up in the affluent suburbs of Los Angeles. But everything changes when she turns eighteen and finds that her loving father has made a secret vow which will shatter her life, forcing her to marry a man she hardly knows and sending her to the exotic, golden city of Jerusalem. On her wedding day, she enters a strange and foreign world steeped in tradition and surrounded by...
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Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
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225 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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When Molly, a ten-year-old orphan, is arrested for picking pockets in London in 1731, she is banished to America and serves as an indentured servant for a New York City family that expects her to follow their Jewish traditions.
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2024.
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During World War II, in the Terezin concentration camp, a group of Jewish children and their devoted teacher planted and nurtured a smuggled-in sapling that nearly eighty years later has six hundred descendants around the world that are thriving, including the one planted at New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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