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Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End

by Daniel Gordis

Published: 2010-09-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Is Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future?The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else and whether the...

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Three Balconies: Stories and a Novella

by Bruce Jay Friedman

Published: 2008-09-15

Hardcover: 210 pages

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The first collection of new short fiction by Bruce Jay Friedman in more than two decades, helping to cement his reputation as one of the country's leading black humorists. A New York Times Editor's Selection.

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The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible

by Aviya Kushner

Published: 2015-09-08

Hardcover: 272 pages

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For readers of Bruce Feiler’s Walking the Bible and Kathleen Norris’s The Cloister Walk comes a powerful exploration of the Bible in translation. Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. ...

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Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction

Published: 1998-04

Paperback: 272 pages

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Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy? Yes! Wandering Stars is the landmark collection of Jewish science fiction and fantasy. The first of its kind, it is an established and enduring classic. This is the first time in a science fiction collection that the Jewish People?and the richness of t...

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Becoming Malka

by Mirta Ines Trupp

Published: 2016-03-31

Paperback: 224 pages

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Bringing Bubbe Home: A Memoir of Letting Go Through Love and Death

by Debra Gordon Zaslow

Published: 2014-06-10

Paperback: 192 pages

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Debra Zaslow was humming along on baby-boomer autopilot, immersed in her life as a professional storyteller, wife of a Rabbi, and mother of two teenagers when she felt compelled to bring her 103-year-old grandmother, Bubbe, who was dying alone in a nursing facility, home to live and die wi...

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Not Your Father's Antisemitism: Hatred of the Jews in the 21st Century

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 450 pages

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In sixteen crisp essays written by distinguished scholars from diverse disciplines, backgrounds and countries, Not Your Father's Antisemitism argues that contemporary hatred of the Jews is not a throwback to the 1930s but a unique manifestation of 21st century humanity and the post-moderni...

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Faith Unravels: A Rabbis Struggle with Grief and God

by Daniel Greyber

Published: 2012-09-12

Paperback: 138 pages

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Every year, thousands of young people die, leaving in their wake circles of grieving friends in need of support. Many look to how clergy understand loss but few religious traditions have a defined mourning process-or even a role in mourning-for non-family members. Faith Unravels speaks to the profound...

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The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism

by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Published: 2013-09-03

Hardcover: 496 pages

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A groundbreaking--and terrifying--examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied ...

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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen

by Liel Leibovitz

Published: 2015-03-23

Paperback: 288 pages

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Brings to life a passionate poet-turned-musician and what compels him and his work. Why is it that Leonard Cohen receives the sort of reverence we reserve for a precious few living artists? Why are his songs, three or four decades after their original release, suddenly gracing the charts, ...