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An inspiring, frank, and engaging “spiritual autobiography” that will touch anyone seeking deeper meaning in their religious life.
As we come to recognize the need to nurture our spiritual lives as adults, The Year Mom Got Religion offers sensitive and intelligent wisdom from a woman who learned how awakening to religion can transform, and disrupt, a life. Lee Meyerhoff Hendler relates her awakening to Judaism. She also shares the hard lessons...
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Being Jewish. What does it mean-for today, and for the future?
A companion teacher's guide to the best-selling I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl this collection of activities, exercises, lesson plans and reflections will deepen your students' understanding of this National Jewish Award Winning book-and of themselves.
Includes lesson plans for young children (grades 3—6) as well as older children (grades...
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This stellar collection of Jewish science fiction and fantasy carries on in the tradition of its companion volume, the enduring classic Wandering Stars-breaking new ground with every story. Trouble with mothers; invading aliens and demons; the arrival of the long-awaited Messiah, all these phenomena and more are tackled in these tales from a creative group of extraordinary writers. We go to the edges of the universe, finding humor, pain and humanity...
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It's the perpetual question: Are we there yet? We've probably asked and answered it countless times. But, impatience can cloud the real question: Where are we right now? Are We There Yet? Shows a way to turn travel into a spiritual practice.
From the Gully to the Crossroads-walking, driving, flying-Rabbi Shefa Gold shares her experience and insight on travel and helps us reexamine our natural inclination to focus on our destinations-both physical...
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For people who don't believe that God can intervene in our lives, and why Judaism is still important. For some people, the biggest stumbling block in religion is God-even for an ordained rabbi who admits her rational mind "can't buy into a God in the sky who writes down our deeds and rewards and punishes us accordingly." But not being sold on an intervening God shouldn't bar you from living a vibrant and fulfilling Jewish life. The God concept has...
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A comprehensive guide to meditation for people of all faiths, from the best-selling author of God Is a Verb.
The only complete nonsectarian guide to meditation, A Heart of Stillness is a comprehensive guidebook to its basic principles and practices.
By showing the way to what mystics have experienced for thousands of years, David Cooper's accessible, clear advice provides invaluable guidance both for students already studying with a meditation teacher,...
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Many people are familiar with the story of Jewish support for the American civil rights movement, but this history has another side-
one that has not been fully told until now.
"Outlines a compelling image of relations between the two communities... In Shared Dreams, Rabbi Schneier reiterates our commonality, as upheld by Martin Luther King, Jr., and fuels the reader to continue to work for the advancement of race relations among all God's children."
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Sometimes we must look into the past in order to face the future.
After growing up as a fully assimilated Jew, Paul Cowan embarked in his mid-thirties upon a journey to discover and appreciate his true identity and heritage. This “orphan in history" relates his search for these roots, detailing the path he took from his Park Avenue home to nineteenth-century Lithuania to a contemporary Israeli kibbutz, leading to remarkable personal discoveries...
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Jacob was running away from home. One night he lay down in the wilderness to sleep and had one of the great mystical experiences of Western religion. He dreamed there was a ladder, with angels ascending and descending, stretched between heaven and earth. For thousands of years, people have tried to overhear what the messengers came down to tell Jacob, and us.
Now in a daring blend of scholarship and imagination, psychology and history, Lawrence Kushner...
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Reimagine the Possibilities for Your Own Congregation
We all share a deep human need for meaning in our lives, a need to feel that we are part of something larger than ourselves. Yet many of us have discovered that successful careers, material affluence-even loving families-are not enough to satisfy this longing. And, too often, the congregations and organizations in which we seek greater meaning are uninspiring, or worse.
The answer lies in belonging...
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Follow the soul treks of Jews lost and found. Be inspired to connect with Judaism in new ways. What draws Jews back to their religious roots? What drives them away? What obstacles must they overcome to find their way home?
Paula Amann candidly probes these questions and more as she explores how secular and nominal Jews are blazing their own trails toward a vibrant, twenty-first-century Judaism. With the ear of a journalist and the heart of a seeker,...
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Jesús de Nazaret, que se encarnó y resucitó como Dios, nació, vivió y murió como judío. Este libro titulado Yeshú. Trasfondo judío de la vida de Jesús, fruto de toda una vida de fe y de muchos años de estudio, surgió ante la inquietud de que a los cristianos nos pasara desapercibida parte de la gran riqueza de los Evangelios por ser ajenos a su sustrato judío y conocer más bien someramente el Antiguo Testamento.
En mi deseo de contribuir...
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A companion to The Way Into Jewish Prayer, an accessible introduction to the reasons for and the ways of Jewish prayer. This guide helps you explore with a group the reasons for and the ways of Jewish prayer. It opens the door to 3,000 years of Jewish prayer, making available all you need to feel.
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Dr. Tsesis describes the path he traversed from religious ignorance to strong belief in the Jewish religion. Tsesis assigns a special place to the proof of his conclusion that religion and science especially in light of recent discoveries are not antagonists, and are, in fact, in complete harmony, supplementing and not excluding each other. In the spirit of ecumenism, Tsesis speaks about coexistence of different religions, which share the common objective...
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Being Jewish. What does it mean-today-and for the future? Listen in as Jews of all backgrounds reflect, argue, and imagine.
When Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was brutally murdered in Pakistan, many Jews were particularly touched by his last words affirming his Jewish identity. Many were moved to reflect on or analyze their feelings toward their lives as Jews.
The saying "two Jews, three opinions" well reflects the Jewish community's broad...
76) God in Between
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Nondenominational, Nonsectarian, Multicultural
From award-winning author Sandy Eisenberg Sasso comes a new story to delight children and adults of all faiths and backgrounds.
This is the magical, mythical tale of a poor village at the foot of a hill-a topsy-turvy town with no roads and no windows, where the people sneeze through tall tangled weeds and trip over rocks as big as watermelons. Surely God would help them, they decide ... but how can God...
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Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change-from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life.
"Jewish Megatrends offers a vision for a community that can simultaneously strengthen the institutions that serve those who seek greater Jewish identification and attract younger Jews, many of whom are currently outside the orbit of Jewish communal life. Schwarz and his collaborators provide an exciting path, building on proven examples,...
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We Sing We Stay Together is a sing-along TRANSLITERATED ENGLISH TEXT prayer book of the Shabbat (Saturday) morning service. It is designed primarily to make it even easier to learn the prayers when listening and singing along to the double CD album of the same name; but it also stands, in its own right, as a learning tool explaining the meaning of the words and the service. It is super user-friendly.
Our Jewish prayers are beautiful love songs;...
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The God of Abraham
The God of Isaac
The God of Jacob
The God of Sarah
The God of Rebecca
The God of Rachel
The God of Leah
… the God of Me
There is no easy prescription for how to know God, yet everyone can pursue a personal relationship with God, just as our patriarchs and matriarchs did in their lives. How we come to know God, however, is unique to each of us, influenced by our study of Torah, the insights of the Rabbis of antiquity, as...
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Philip Gold, an accomplished writer, journalist, scholar, wandered forty years before returning to the Judaism he'd left behind. But, he didn't return so much as bring back the seeds of a new kind of Judaism with him. YOM KIPPUR PARTY GOODS is much more than a personal tale, am memoir of pain and seeking told with humor and grace. It's also for everyone who's tired of going hungry in the supermarket of modern spirituality, who finds (over) organized...
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