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  • What is Sexual Capital?

    This book does to sex what other sociologists did to culture: it shows that sex, no longer defined by religion, now plays a role in the economy and can yield tangible benefits in the realms of money, status, and occupation. How do people accumulate sexual capital, and what are the returns for investing money, time, knowledge, and energy in establishing and enhancing our sexual selves?Dana Kaplan ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Contemporary American Judaism

    Transformation and Renewal

    by Dana Kaplan ...
    No longer controlled by a handful of institutional leaders based in remote headquarters and rabbinical seminaries, American Judaism is being transformed by the spiritual decisions of tens of thousands of Jews living all over the United States. A pulpit rabbi and himself an American Jew, Dana Evan Kaplan follows this religious individualism from its postwar suburban roots to the hippie revolution ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Have a Little Faith

    A True Story

    by Mitch Albom ...
    From the bestselling author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven**, an insightful memoir that begs the question: what if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?**In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds—two men, two faiths, two communities—beginning with an unusual request: an eighty-two ... Read more

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  • Relational Judaism

    Using the Power of Relationships to Transform the Jewish Community

    How to transform the model of twentieth-century Jewish institutions into twenty-first-century relational communities offering meaning and purpose, belonging and blessing."What really matters is that we care about the people we seek to engage. When we genuinely care about people, we will not only welcome them; we will listen to their stories, we will share ours, and we will join together to build a ... Read more

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  • Kidnapped

    A Diary of My 373 days in Captivity

    by Leszli Kalli ...
    "It all happened so fast that even now, a month later, I still have trouble believing it, and I have to tell myself over and over again: Leszli, you have been kidnapped."On April 12, 1999, Leszli Kálli boarded a plane in Colombia to work on a kibbutz in Israel, but she never made it. The plane was hijacked by a leftist guerrilla group and forced to land on an abandoned runway in the jungle. Leszli ... Read more

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  • Kitab al Khazari, in English translation

    by Judah Hallevi ...
    "Framed as a dialog between the king of the Khazars, a Central Asian kingdom, and a Rabbi, the Khazari is an exposition of late medieval Jewish philosophy. Legend has it that the king of the Khazars held a symposium to decide whether his people should convert to Judaism, Christianity or Islam. This book is a fictional account of the Jewish side of this debate. Judah Ha-Levi, the author, was born ... Read more

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  • Judaism - Simple Guides

    Series series Simple Guides
    This book will help you to appreciate the wisdom of the world's oldest monotheistic religion; to understand what it means to be a Jew; to recognize the key Jewish festivals and the different aspects of Jewish practice and belief; to avoid faux pas in conversation, in travelling and in personal relationships.Judaism is the world's oldest monotheistic religion. While the number of its adherents has ... Read more

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  • The Natural History of the Bible

    An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures

    by Daniel Hillel ...
    Traversing river valleys, steppes, deserts, rain-fed forests, farmlands, and seacoasts, the early Israelites experienced all the contrasting ecological domains of the ancient Near East. As they grew from a nomadic clan to become a nation-state in Canaan, they interacted with indigenous societies of the region, absorbed selective elements of their cultures, and integrated them into a radically new ... Read more

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  • The Sabbath Soul

    Mystical Reflections on the Transformative Power of Holy Time

    Enter into the mystery of the Sabbath, into the wonder and light of the seventh day."We live in a world dominated by speed and distraction, with demands for our attention at every turn…. We frequently forget the restorative blessing of stillness, our desperate need for rest … a rest that brings us back to the center of existence, a calm that allows us to reconnect with the divine breath at the ... Read more

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  • Jewish History

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, David N. Myers charts the long journey of the Jews through history. At the same time, it points to two unlikely-and decidedly ... Read more

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  • Surviving Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah

    The Ultimate Insider's Guide

    In Surviving Your Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Cantor Matt Axelrod provides a practical, humorous guide for Jewish students and their families as they prepare for their “big day.” Breezy and friendly yet reassuring and focused, Axelrod easily cuts through the fear and stress that teens often feel in the months leading up to their bar or bat mitzvah. In addition to helping the student prepare for the bar or ... Read more

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  • The Legend of the Baal-Shem

    by Martin Buber ...
    Translated by Maurice Friedman ...
    These twenty captivating stories about the founder of the Hasidic faith Israel ben Eliezer called the Baal-Shem or Master of God's Name, provide a profound and charming account of the genesis of Hasidism, still Judaism's most important religious movement. As a delicate and moving portrayal not only of the power of the Baal-Shem's mystical faith, but also of Eastern European Jewish daily life, The ... Read more

    $33.99 USD