The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch
10 best books like The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch (Sue Fishkoff): The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, The Guide for the Perplexed, Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Evil Games, The Complete Artscroll Siddur, The Chumash: The Stone Edition, Full Size (ArtScroll) (English and Hebrew Edition) The Torah: Haftaros and Five Megillos with a Commentary Anthologized from the Rabbinic Writings, My Lost Family
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
| Author | Joshua Hammer |
| ISBN | 1476777403 |
To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven.
In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger...
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
| Author | Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| ISBN | 0374529752 |
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 Guide for the Perplexed
| Author | Maimonides |
| ISBN | 0486203514 |
This is the full, unabridged text of one of the greatest philosophic works of all time. Written by a 12th- century thinker who was equally active as an original philosopher and as a Biblical and Talmudic scholar, it is both a classic of great historical importance and a work of living significance today.
The...
Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
| Author | Abraham Cohen |
| ISBN | 0805210326 |
"To some readers of this book, the Talmud represents little more than a famous Jewish book. But people want to know about a book that, they are told, defines Judaism. Everyman's Talmud is the right place to begin not only to learn about Judaism in general but to meet the substance of the Talmud in particular...
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
| Author | Matti Friedman |
| ISBN | 1616207221 |
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it’s all true.
The four spies at the center of this story were part of...
Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community
| Author | Dan Raviv |
| ISBN | 0395471028 |
Much more interesting than I expected. Mostly a series of vignettes, describing many of the exploits of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and Aman. The book is old (1989? 1991? I forget, and I returned it to the library), so it is no longer the "complete" history. An easy to read discussion of these security agencies...
The greater the Evil, the more deadly the game…
When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far more sinister at work....
The Complete Artscroll Siddur
Nosson Scherman (Hebrew: נתן שרמן, born 1935, Newark, New Jersey) is an American Haredi rabbi best known as the general editor of ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications.
Scherman was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where his parents ran a small grocery store. He attended public...
The Chumash: The Stone Edition, Full Size (ArtScroll) (English and Hebrew Edition) The Torah: Haftaros and Five Megillos with a Commentary Anthologized from the Rabbinic Writings
| Author | Nosson Scherman |
| ISBN | 0899060145 |
A Classic in its own time... The entire Chumash, newly reset, in one beautiful volume with a new, contemporary English translation of the Torah, faithful to Rashi and the classic Rabbinic commentators, and an anthologized commentary by a team of scholars, under the editorship of Rabbi Nosson Scherman....
A family must come to terms with the past when two missing children reappear after 40 years. As the secrets unravel in this real-life tale, can the family lay to rest the ghosts of the past? Growing up in a poor Yiddish-speaking home in 1950s London, teenager Lillian marries a charming older man, Raymond....
| Author | Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz |
| ISBN | 1592643817 |
When Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Chabad-Lubavitch consisted of a small group of Chasidim recovering from near annihilation in the Holocaust. During his forty years of leadership, Rabbi Schneerson transformed Chabad into a global movement marked by extensive...
Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History
| Author | Joseph Telushkin |
| ISBN | 0062318985 |
“One of the greatest religious biographies ever written.” – Dennis Prager
In this enlightening biography, Joseph Telushkin offers a captivating portrait of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a towering figure who saw beyond conventional boundaries to turn his movement,...
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
| Author | Samuel C. Heilman |
| ISBN | 0691138885 |
From 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...
Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible
| Author | Jonathan Sacks |
| ISBN | 1592644325 |
In this companion volume to his celebrated series Covenant & Conversation, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks mines the weekly Torah portions for insights into the nature of power, authority, and leadership. Based on the understanding that no man is born a leader, the book explores the principles, and perils,...
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
| Author | Mark Bowden |
| ISBN | 0802137571 |
I've read several of Bowden's books - Black hawk Down, Killing Pablo and Guests of the Ayatollah, among them - and all have been riveting, and am planning to read his latest about the capture of Bin Laden. This book, however, fell short of the standards of those three in particular. Maybe it was because...
| Author | Deon Meyer |
| ISBN | 0802124003 |
South Africa’s preeminent crime fiction writer, Deon Meyer is internationally acclaimed for his razor’s-edge thrillers, unforgettable characters, and nuanced portrayals of contemporary life in his native country. The fifth pulse-pounder starring Captain Benny Griessel, a lead detective...
WorldPerfect: The Jewish Impact on Civilization
| Author | Ken Spiro |
| ISBN | 0757300561 |
In pursuit of an answer to the question of what would constitute a perfect world, author Ken Spiro questioned more than 1,500 people of various backgrounds and religions. His findings revealed six core elements: Respect for human life; peace and harmony; justice and equality; education; family;...
It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chilli
Written and hosted by Marc Fennell, It Burns is the story of a 10-year scandal-plagued international competition that will take listeners from the Australian Coast to South Carolina (via an Indian Research Facility).
It’s a war filled with larger than life characters. There will be sledging,...
Essential Maimonides: Translations of the Rambam
| Author | Avraham Yaakov Finkel |
| ISBN | 1568214642 |
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Pirkei Avot - Shemoneh Perakim of the Rambam/The Thirteen Principles of Faith
Moses ben-Maimon, called Maimonides and also known as Mūsā ibn Maymūn ( موسى بن ميمون) in Arabic, or Rambam (רמב"ם – Hebrew acronym for "Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon"), was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the greatest Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle...
| Author | Isadore Twersky |
| ISBN | 0874412064 |
This review only applies to the selections from Guide for the Perplexed included in this reader.
A wonderful work that speaks to many of the issues that we face today regarding religion, the political structure of society and science. Maimonides made me view religion in a new light. Modern...
Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God, with a New Introduction by Hilary Putnam
| Author | Franz Rosenzweig |
| ISBN | 0674921194 |
Franz Rosenzweig, one of the century's great Jewish thinkers, wrote his gem of a book in 1921 as a more accessible pr�cis of his famous Star of Redemption. An elegant introduction to Rosenzweig's "new thinking," Understanding the Sick and the Healthy was written for a lay audience and takes the form...
Chofetz Chaim: A Lesson a Day: The Concepts and Laws of Proper Speech Arranged for Daily Study
| Author | Shimon Finkelman |
| ISBN | 0899063217 |
A daily study on how to avoid the sin of "loshon hora" - hebrew for "evil tongue." Written by a well esteemed Rabi in the 1800s who started with the premise that loshon hora was the primary cause of so much of Israel's woes, even connecting the exile specifically to this sin.
The best part of reading...
The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II (Young Readers Edition)
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who hoped to become a concert pianist. But when Hitler's armies advanced on pre-war Vienna, Lisa's parents were forced to make a difficult decision. Able to secure passage for only one of their three daughters through the Kindertransport, they chose...
| Author | Arnaldur Indriðason |
Þýska húsið gerist í hinni hersetnu Reykjavík árið 1941. Maður finnst myrtur í lítilli leiguíbúð en hann hefur verið skotinn í höfuðið. Grunur beinist strax að hermönnunum, en samskipti þeirra við Íslendinga eru litin hornauga af mörgum. Hér hittum við á ný lögreglumanninn...
| Author | Maimonides |
| ISBN | 0486245225 |
Philosopher, physician, and master of rabbinical literature, Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204) strove to reconcile biblical revelation with medieval Aristotelianism. His writings, especially the celebrated Guide for the Perplexed, exercised considerable influence on both Jewish and Christian...
| Author | Mick Herron |
| ISBN | 1569479011 |
Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who’ve screwed up a case in any number of ways—by leaving a secret file on a train or blowing a surveillance. River Cartwright, one such “slow horse,” is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing...
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
| Author | Timothy P. Carney |
| ISBN | 0062797107 |
Now a Washington Post Bestseller.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump proclaimed, “The American Dream is dead,” a message that resonated across the country. Washington Examiner editor Timothy Carney traveled Middle America, pored over county-level maps and data,...
| Author | John Alden Williams |
| ISBN | 0611550008 |
this is the third in the collection that i've read, and i have to admit to being pleasantly surprised. the other two volumes ("hunduism" and "buddhism") were tedious and, to me, fairly incomprehensible. i went to them looking for context and elucidation, and instead was subjected to random selections...
(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
| Author | Jonathan Weisman |
| ISBN | 1250169933 |
A short, literary, powerful contemplation on how Jews are viewed in America since the election of Donald J. Trump, and how we can move forward to fight anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism has always been present in American culture, but with the rise of the Alt Right and an uptick of threats to Jewish...
