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  • Becoming Un-Orthodox

    Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews

    by Lynn Davidman ...
    Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits. Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these conversations emerge accounts of the great fear, angst, and sense of danger that come of leaving a highly bounded enclave community. Many of those ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • The Lost Wife

    by Alyson Richman ...
    A rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war—from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds.During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry—only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Sisters Weiss

    A Novel

    by Naomi Ragen ...
    Powerful, page-turning and deeply moving, Naomi Ragen's The Sisters Weiss is an unforgettable examination of loyalty and betrayal; the differences that can tear a family apart and the invisible bonds that tie them together.In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Gray Mountain

    A Novel

    by John Grisham ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From America’s favorite storyteller comes “one of his best legal dramas” (Associated Press): a gripping thriller about a former big-city lawyer who finds herself up against Big Coal—and under attack.“Yes, Gray Mountain is fiction. But after reading the book, you’ll believe heroic action must be taken.”—USA TodayThe year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • In the Unlikely Event

    by Judy Blume ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of Are you There God? It’s Me, Margaret returns with an adult novel that takes us back to the 1950s and introduces us to the town where she herself grew up, where a community is left reeling after a real-life tragedy when a series of airplanes fell out of the sky.“Makes us feel the pure shock and wonder of living.... Judy Blume isn’t just revered, she’s ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • This Is My God

    by Herman Wouk ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author shares a "valuable, wise, and quietly moving" meditation on orthodox Judaism ( Chicago Tribune ).Renowned for his sweeping historical novels such as The Cain Mutiny and The Winds of War, Herman Wouk now presents a brilliantly distilled examination of his own religious faith. A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Rebbe

    The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

    by Samuel Heilman, Menachem Friedman ...
    The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern timesFrom the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson—revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe—built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Climbing Jacob's Ladder

    One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition

    by Alan Morinis ...
    “A compelling portrait of the relationship between a student and a teacher,” this spiritual memoir “raises important questions about the meaning of Judaism and the search for spirituality in this world” (Los Angeles Times)Jewish by birth, though from a secular family, Alan Morinis explored Hinduism and Buddhism as a young man. But in 1997, in the face of personal crisis, he turned to his Jewish ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Every Day, Holy Day

    365 Days of Teachings and Practices from the Jewish Tradition of Mussar

    by Alan Morinis ...
    The myriad events and interactions that make up our everyday life provide a rich opportunity for us to examine our impulses and actions and grow spiritually, according to the Jewish practice of Mussar. Mussar is an eminently wise, practical, and effective way to cultivate awareness, gratitude, personal growth, and ethical action on a daily basis. The path has its origins in Orthodox Judaism but it ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Symbols of the Kabbalah

    Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

    by Sanford L. Drob ...
    Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives provides a philosophical and psychological interpretation of the major symbols of the theosophical Kabbalah. It shows that the Kabbalah, particularly as it is expressed in the school of Isaac Luria, provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the cosmos, and humanity's role within it, that is intellectually, morally, and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities

    Edited by Becky R. Lee, Terry Tak-ling Woo ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Women and Religion
    This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures—old and new—in modern Canada.Each essay explores the ways in which the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Jewish Tales of Reincarnation

    by Yonasson Gershom ...
    Scattered throughout many kabbalistic and hasidic texts are numerous teaching stories with reincarnation as their central theme. Now, for the first time, you can read 70 of these fascinating tales in a single volume, collected and retold by master storyteller, Yonassan Gershom.The author begins with an over-view of basic themes about the afterlife, such as the judgement of souls before the ... Read more

    $60.79 USD