Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
10 best books like Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective (Judith Plaskow): The Dante Club, Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, The Jew in the Lotus, How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Sexism and God Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life
A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.
Words can bleed.
In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and...
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless...
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
| Author | Priya Parker |
| ISBN | 1594634920 |
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at work, at school, at home and beyond.
Every day we find ourselves in gatherings, Priya Parker says in The Art of Gathering. If we can understand what makes these gatherings effective and memorable,...
| Author | Rodger Kamenetz |
| ISBN | 0060645741 |
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...
| Author | Blu Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0671602705 |
Truthfully, in spite of all the parts of this book I just don't agree with (namely: she's a bit heavy handed with lumping Conservative/Reform/Reconstructionist together, she calls herself a feminist but doesn't show it in her writing except in passive agressive comments here and there, the book is...
| Author | Alan Lew |
| ISBN | 0316739081 |
There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith.The Days of Awe...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0415254086 |
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination...
| Author | Rosemary Radford Ruether |
How did a religion whose founding proponents advocated a shocking disregard of earthly ties come to extol the virtues of the "traditional" family? In this richly textured history of the relationship between Christianity and the family Rosemary Radford Ruether traces the development of these centerpieces...
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 1250178266 |
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0061686158 |
Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life features the wisdom that spiritual leader and counselor Henri J. M. Nouwen brought to the essential question asked by every Christian and seeker: What should I do with my life?
Nouwen emphasizes listening to the Word of God—in our hearts, in...
| Author | Paul Kriwaczek |
| ISBN | 1400033772 |
Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse, as its notable diplomats, artists and thinkers make their mark in far-flung...
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 0849901146 |
Shines a practical light on the spiritual disciplines that have been in use since the time of Abraham. In a sense, every day of our lives is labor. It is questionable if you can ever be exactly the same person waking up on two consecutive days. How are spiritual sojourners to cope with the constant change?...
| Author | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza |
| ISBN | 0824513576 |
So, I had high hopes for this book when I picked it up. It is a classic of feminist biblical interpretation from a world-class scholar. That said, there were just too many methodological problems, cases of special pleading, speculations passed off as fact (upon which subsequent speculations passed...
Grace & Grit: Spirituality & Healing in the Life & Death of Treya Killam Wilber
| Author | Ken Wilber |
| ISBN | 1570627428 |
My dear cousin lent me her copy of this book a few months back and at the time told me it was one of her all-time favorite books -- now after completing it myself -- I completely understand why.
This has to be one of the most emotionally touching and spiritually rewarding books I have ever read. As well...
Writing In An Age Of Silence
| Author | Sara Paretsky |
| ISBN | 1844671229 |
In Writing in an Age of Silence, Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparalleled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.
In tracing the writer’s difficult journey from silence to speech,...
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)
| Author | Sarah Hurwitz |
| ISBN | 0525510710 |
*Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)* by Sarah Hurwitz is a beautiful book about Judaism. If will stirr your soul and touch your heart. If you are Jewish it will remind you of the beauty of your religion....
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 1597808342 |
Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier, continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy Prador, the crab-like...
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
| Author | Kate Harris |
| ISBN | 0345816781 |
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"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."
As a teenager,...
The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras
| Author | J. Michael Orenduff |
| ISBN | 1892343304 |
When a shady character offers him $25,000 to steal a thousand-year-old pot from Albuquerque's Valle del Rio Museum, Hubert Schuze knows he should turn it down. His pot digging may be illegal, but it's a big step from that to robbery. But he figures it can't hurt just to visit the museum and assay his chances....
The Lights of Penitence, the Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters and Poems
Abraham Isaac Kook was a famous rabbi who led the Ashkenazi Jews within British controlled Palestine. The quality of his thought and words is incredibly tolerant, and thoughtful. I’m supremely grateful for the Classics of Western Spirituality for including in their series this scholar’s writings....
| Author | Ayelet Tsabari |
| ISBN | 1443447889 |
An unforgettable memoir about a young woman who tries to outrun loss, but eventually finds a way home.
Ayelet Tsabari was 21 years old the first time she left Tel Aviv with no plans to return. Restless after two turbulent mandatory years in the Israel Defense Forces, Tsabari longed to get away....
Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews
| Author | Joseph Telushkin |
| ISBN | 0688163513 |
Here are more than 100 of the best Jewish jokes you'll ever hear, interspersed with perceptive and persuasive insight into what they can tell us about how Jews see themselves, their families, and their friends, and what they think about money, sex, and success. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is as celebrated...
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
| Author | David M. Halperin |
| ISBN | 0415900972 |
Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous...
Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation
| Author | Michael Lerner |
| ISBN | 0060976756 |
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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
| ISBN | 1595341986 |
The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the twenty-nine essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical...
| Author | Selma Dabbagh |
| ISBN | 1608198766 |
Gaza is being bombed. Rashid - a young, clever Palestinian - has been smoking grass on the roof watching it happen when he gets the e-mail he has been desperate for: he's won a scholarship to London. Rashid's sister, Iman, frustrated by the atrocities and inaction around her, is beginning to take an interest...
Seasons of Our Joy: A Modern Guide to the Jewish Holidays
| Author | Arthur I. Waskow |
| ISBN | 0807036110 |
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| Author | Drew Magary |
| ISBN | 0399563857 |
From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you’ve read before, weaving elements of folk tale and video game into a riveting, unforgettable adventure of what a man will endure to return to his family
When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania,...
Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back
| Author | Ann Vileisis |
| ISBN | 1597261440 |
Ask children where food comes from, and they’ll probably answer: “the supermarket.” Ask most adults, and their replies may not be much different. Where our foods are raised and what happens to them between farm and supermarket shelf have become mysteries. How did we become so disconnected from...
