The Jewish Book of Why
10 best books like The Jewish Book of Why (Alfred J. Kolatch): The Hunt for Atlantis, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, To Pray As A Jew: A Guide To The Prayer Book And The Synagogue Service, The Jew in the Lotus, The Jewish Study Bible, 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, The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living, To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking
| Author | Andy McDermott |
| ISBN | 0755339118 |
Following in the tradition of Clive Cussler and Matthew Reilly, Andy McDermott takes us a roller-coaster ride in search of the legendary Atlantis.
Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she has found the location of the lost city of Atlantis and now she wants the opportunity to prove her theory....
A surreal sequel to the first volume of the series, More Tales of the City heightens the stakes of the original: mystery, romance, and drama now feature even more prominently in the intertwining storylines of the residents of 28 Barbary Lane. Maupin established his characters' personalities and their...
Further Tales of the City
| Author | Armistead Maupin |
| ISBN | 0552998788 |
It took me 21 months to read this third volume. When Maupin comes up with a totally unbelievable plot line involving a resurrected Jim Jones, his kidnapping of two four-year-old children from an Alaskan cruise and then perhaps through Little Diomedes (a US island) to Big Diomedes (a Russian island)...
| Author | Hayim Halevy Donin |
| ISBN | 0465086330 |
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...
| 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 | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0195297512 |
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....
| Author | Anita Diamant |
| ISBN | 0805210954 |
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
| Author | Hayim Halevy Donin |
| ISBN | 0465086322 |
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...
| Author | Joseph Telushkin |
| ISBN | 0609603302 |
In The Book of Jewish Values, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has combed the Bible, the Talmud, and the whole spectrum of Judaism's sacred writings to give us a manual on how to lead a decent, kind, and honest life in a morally complicated world. Telushkin speaks to the major ethical issues of our time, issues that...
| Author | Harold S. Kushner |
| ISBN | 0446670022 |
This is a wonderful book that makes me appreciate our heritage. Kushner, a conservative rabbi, againn writes a book that is readily accepted by me, a question mark. A few things I liked:
1) One of the most important differences in Judaism and Christianity is that we were a people before we had a religion....
| Author | George Robinson |
| ISBN | 0671034812 |
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...
| Author | Anita Diamant |
| ISBN | 0062734431 |
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...
Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation: In Theory and Practice
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0877288550 |
To most people, the very word Kabbalah implies the mystical experience par excellence, but most modern books about this subject shed very little light into its ancient mystical and magical aspects. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has therefore translated the Sefer Yetzirah the oldest and most mysterious of all...
Two years ago, Stephen J. Dubner wrote a cover story for The New York Times Magazine called Choosing My Religion. It became one of the most widely discussed articles in the magazine's history. Turbulent Souls, the book that grew out of that article, is an intimate memoir of a man in search of a Jewish heritage...
| Author | Lawrence Kushner |
| ISBN | 1879045338 |
Wow, not at all what I expected.
This was yet another book I stumbled upon in grad school and told myself someday I'd need to get back to. I'm glad I did.
The story of Jacob's Ladder, reinterpreted and expounded upon by 7 Jewish teachers/scholars throughout history. Sounds riveting...
| Author | Michael Berg |
| ISBN | 0471228796 |
The simple and practical wisdom I have gained by reading this book and studying Kabbalah is immeasurable.
--Madonna
"This book will inspire your soul. Michael Berg has accomplished the monumental task of translating the eternal truths of life into spiritual common sense. Without a...
The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm
| Author | Harold S. Kushner |
| ISBN | 1400033357 |
Another "damp, drizzly November in my soul" (Melville, Moby-Dick), and I've just come from another funeral. No, it's September, and the Twenty-Third Psalm that I heard this morning sounded different from the same psalm routinely recited at Jewish burials. Thank you, Harold Kushner.
Years...
The Essential Zohar: The Source of Kabbalistic Wisdom
| Author | Philip S. Berg |
| ISBN | 0609807315 |
For thousands of years, no book has been more shrouded in mystery than the Zohar, yet no book offers us greater wisdom. The central text of Kabbalah, the Zohar is a commentary on the Bible’s narratives, laws, and genealogies and a map of the spiritual landscape. In The Essential Zohar, the eminent kabbalist...
