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10 best books like How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household (Blu Greenberg): Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, To Pray As A Jew: A Guide To The Prayer Book And The Synagogue Service, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, The Jew in the Lotus, The Jewish Study Bible, Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History, Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends, To Be A Jew: A Guide To Jewish Observance In Contemporary Life, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
AuthorChelsea Handler
ISBN0061173398
When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power - vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea's world...
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0827603665
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Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. The JPS TANAKH is an entirely original translation of the...
To Pray As A Jew: A Guide To The Prayer Book And The Synagogue Service
AuthorHayim Halevy Donin
ISBN0465086330
A distinguished guide to Jewish prayer
Why do Jews pray? What is the role of prayer in their lives as moral and ethical beings? From the simplest details of how to comport oneself on entering a synagogue to the most profound and moving comments on the prayers themselves, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin...
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
AuthorAbraham Joshua Heschel
ISBN0374529752
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication-and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life.
In this brief yet profound meditation...
The Jew in the Lotus
AuthorRodger Kamenetz
ISBN0060645741
While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters Ram Dass and Richard Gere, and dialogues...
The Jewish Study Bible
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0195297512
The Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today....
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History
AuthorJoseph Telushkin
ISBN0688085067
Rabbi Telushkin's Jewish Literacy is intended to serve as a general introduction to Judaism and Jewish culture and history. It performs more than admirably as such an introduction. Telushkin's prose is simple and elegant and capable of delivering large amounts of information with little wasted...
Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
AuthorAnita Diamant
ISBN0805210954
Married to a convert herself, Anita Diamant provides advice and information that can transform the act of conversion into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth.

Here you will learn how to choose a rabbi, a synagogue, a denomination, a Hebrew name; how to handle...
To Be A Jew: A Guide To Jewish Observance In Contemporary Life
AuthorHayim Halevy Donin
ISBN0465086322
The classic guide to the ageless heritage of Judaism

Embraced over many decades by hundreds of thousands of readers, To Be a Jew offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to traditional Jewish laws and customs as they apply to daily life in the contemporary world. In simple and powerful...
Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
AuthorJudith Plaskow
ISBN0060666846
The subject is Jewish feminism, but the book's relevance doesn't end there. Not only does it deal with specifically "feminist" and "Jewish" concerns, it also gets into subjects including hermeneutics, the workings of community, the influence of language in our religious lives, and how one approaches...
Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals
AuthorGeorge Robinson
ISBN0671034812
What happens at a synagogue service? What are the rules for keeping kosher? How do I light the Hanukah candles? What is in the Hebrew Bible? What do the Jewish holidays signify? What should I be teaching my children about being Jewish?
A landmark reference, here is an indispensable one-volume...
Jewish Wisdom
AuthorJoseph Telushkin
ISBN0688129587
When, if ever, should lying be permitted?
If you've damaged a person's reputation unfairly, can the damage be undone?
Is a person who sells weapons responsible for how those weapons are used?
if the fetus is not a life, what is it? How, as an adult, can one carry out the command to honor one's...
Living a Jewish Life
AuthorAnita Diamant
ISBN0062734431
Jewish tradition is a gift and a challenge. "Living a Jewish Life" is your guide to the cultural and spiritual treasures of Judaism, explained in ways that address the choices posed by modern life. From hanging a mezuzah to celebrating a wedding, from lighting Sabbath candles to choosing a synagogue...
Casting Off
AuthorElizabeth Jane Howard
ISBN0671534297
This novel observes the Cazalet families and extended families after the war, from July 1945 to the summer of 1947.

Casting off, as a term used in knitting, is the finishing row of whatever article is being knitted. It denotes the ending – a completion. Paradoxically, when people cast off...
Marking Time
AuthorElizabeth Jane Howard
ISBN0671527940
In this second of the five Cazalet Chronicles, I was impressed once again with Elizabeth Jane Howard’s writing. These are not short novels, yet there is never a dull moment – there is always something interesting going on in their lives.

This story picks up a year after the last one left off....
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding
AuthorSuzanne Oliver
""Welcome to the Faith Club. We're three mothers from three faiths -- Islam, Christianity, and Judaism -- who got together to write a picture book for our children that would highlight the connections between our religions. But no sooner had we started talking about our beliefs and how to explain them...
The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy : A New Translation with Introductions, Commentary: 1
AuthorEverett Fox
ISBN0805211195
The sound and the sense...of the original.

Newly translated by Everett Fox with (lots of) commentary and notes, this version of Torah brings with it a lifetime of devotion and scholarship; it is an outstanding study resource and an exceptional choice for public reading. Fox brings the sensibilities,...
Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism
AuthorDanya Ruttenberg
ISBN1580050573
Thanks in large part to the struggles of their activist foremothers, today’s young Jewish women have a dizzying array of spiritual options. Yentl’s Revenge chronicles a range of experiences lived by an entire generation of women, from Judeo-pagan witches to young Orthodox mothers, from rabbis...
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