To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking
10 best books like To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking (Harold S. Kushner): The Octopus Museum: Poems, Our Andromeda, To Pray As A Jew: A Guide To The Prayer Book And The Synagogue Service, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, 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, The Jewish Book of Why, The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living, Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals
The Octopus Museum: Poems
| Author | Brenda Shaughnessy |
| ISBN | 0525655654 |
This collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics.
Informed by Brenda Shaughnessy's craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother, the poems in The Octopus Museum...
| Author | Brenda Shaughnessy |
| ISBN | 1556594100 |
Honored as a New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of 2013"
Honored by Cosmopolitan as the one poetry title on their list of “Best Books of the Year For Women, by Women”
"A heady, infectious celebration."—The New Yorker
"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy,...
| 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...
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...
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History
| Author | Joseph Telushkin |
| ISBN | 0688085067 |
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...
| 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 | Alfred J. Kolatch |
| ISBN | 0824602560 |
A good deal of the whys didn't appear to justify or offer any sort of rational grounding to a number of Jewish practices, I understand their commitment to Torah, but the application of it and the basis for many customs seemed pretty out there for me. Many of the whys behind certain customs went back to medieval...
| 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 | 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...
In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair. Those that are strong enough are conscripted by the Witch Guard, who enforce the law in peacetime and protect the land during war. However, those with hair judged too long are pronounced enemies of the kingdom,...
| Author | Katherena Vermette |
| ISBN | 1487003463 |
Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist...
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...
This Narrow Space: A Pediatric Oncologist, His Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Patients, and a Hospital in Jerusalem
| Author | Elisha Waldman |
| ISBN | 0805243321 |
A memoir both bittersweet and inspiring by an American pediatric oncologist who spent seven years in Jerusalem treating children--Israeli Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and Palestinian Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza--who had all been diagnosed with cancer.
In 2007, Elisha Waldman,...
Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
| Author | Renee Engeln |
| ISBN | 0062669982 |
An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein,...
| Author | Aracelis Girmay |
| ISBN | 1942683022 |
Praise for Aracelis Girmay:
"[Girmay's] every loss—she calls them estrangements—is a yearning for connection across time and place; her every fragment is a bulwark against ruin." —
O, The Oprah Magazine
Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas...
