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Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption

by Vanessa McGrady

Published: 2019-02-01

Hardcover: 182 pages

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From a story first told in the popular New York Times parenting blog comes a funny, touching memoir about a mother who welcomes more than a new daughter into her home.After two years of waiting to adopt—slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair—a miracle finally ...

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Yom Kippur Readings: Inspiration, Information and Contemplation

Published: 2010-07-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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A powerful collection of writings about Yom Kippur that will add spiritual depth and holiness to your experience of the Day of Atonement.As Rosh Hashanah ends and you look ahead to Yom Kippur, what do you think about? The familiar melody of Kol Nidre? The long hours of fasting? The days of...

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At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side, 1880-1920

by Lawrence J Epstein

Published: 2007-08-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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This beautiful book tells the nostalgic tale of how millions of Jewish immigrants entered America through the portal of the Lower East Side. There in New York City they struggled and ultimately flourished in a neighborhood that was the center of Jewish work, family, and culture. For more t...

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Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: A Novel for Grown Ups

by Jayne Allen

Published: 2018-09-06

Paperback: 402 pages

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"...Blend a 21st-century New Adult version of Waiting to Exhale and "Girlfriends" with candid revelations about traumatic injuries of the spirit reminiscent of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf. Toss in the caustic wisdom of seasoned women a la "Golde...

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Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

by Norman Finkelstein

Published: 2008-06-02

Paperback: 488 pages

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Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding...

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(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump

by Jonathan Weisman

Published: 2018-03-20

Hardcover: 256 pages

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In the wake of Donald Trump's election and the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, (((Semitism))) is a powerful book that examines how we can fight anti-Semitism in America A San Francisco Chronicle Reader RecommendationThe Washington Post: "Timely...[A] passionate call to arms."Jewish Book Cou...

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

by Ilan Pappe

Published: 2007-09-07

Paperback: 336 pages

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Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their home...

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Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire

by Ira Mukhoty

Published: 2018-04-25

Kindle Edition: 320 pages

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In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and distant female relatives travelled with him. These women would help establish a dynasty and empire that would rule India for the next 200 years and become a byword for opul...

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Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto

by Emmanuel Ringelblum, Jacob Sloan

Published: 2006-03-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto is the moving account of the horror of the Warsaw Ghetto—written by the recognized archivist and historian of the area while he lived through it. Through anecdotes, stories, and notations—some as brief as was slapped today in Zlota Street,—there emerges the agonizing,...

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Shalom for the Heart: Torah-Inspired Devotions for a Sacred Life

by Rabbi Evan Moffic

Published: 2017-03-07

Paperback: 160 pages

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What if one word could change your life? What if one word made sense of what was missing...and what is possible? That word is God's promise: Shalom. Shalom is right relationship... with others, ourselves, with God. It has worked for 4000 years. In the generous spirit he is known for, Rab...