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Essay Maker - For Exams Too
Regina Berenyi
Hybrid Publishers
Written for students in final years of secondary school or early years of university, this book is a basic tool kit which gives clear advice on how to construct essays, interpret essay questions, do research, present work, referencing and exam preparation.
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Hebrew From Scratch, volume 1
by Shlomit Chayat, Sara Israeli, Hilla Kobliner
Hebrew From Scratch is also known as 'Ivrit min hathahala'. (Hebrew "from the beginning")
It's a comprehensive textbook, grammar and exercise book for the beginner adult student.
Widely used by high school and university students.
The instructions for the exercises as well as the translations of the vocabulary lists are in English.
Otherwise, the course is based on Hebrew-only instruction.
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My Mother's Spice Cupboard
Author: Elana Benjamin
Hybrid Publishers
244 pages
Size 155 mm x 233 mm
A journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi
A fascinating chronicle preserving a rich cultural heritage.
Unlike most other Australian Jews, Elana’s parents were born and grew up in Bombay, and her grandparents were from Iraq, Burma and India.
My Mother's Spice Cupboard traces the history of the Baghdadi Jews of Bombay. It is the story of what happened to a community which no longer exists, how its members built new lives in a different country, and what it was like to grow up as one of their children. It's also about how much things have changed over four generations in one family and to what extent upbringing is influenced by culture, language and cuisine.
The themes underlying the story are those of family and community versus individuality; choice versus obligation; and tradition versus modernity. And underlying the entire narrative is the importance of food and cooking, which goes beyond the mere provision of sustenance to express warmth, love and hospitality.
• A family saga over four generations
• Sure to appeal to anyone interested in different cultures, religions and cooking
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One Egg Is A Fortune
by P. Jacobson & J. Kempler, 2011.
edited by Nadine Davidoff
320 pages
The perfect gift!
One Egg Is A Fortune: Memories And Recipes To Share
Fifty well-known Jewish figures from around the world have contributed recipes, biographies and anecdotes, showcasing the diversity of Jewish life.
And while each person tells a unique story, their anecdotes reveal that the enjoyment of food is the common thread that binds us together.
This timeless book presents over 100 delicious recipes with clear, easy-to-follow instructions with stunning food photography by Craig Cranko, sophisticated food styling by Michele Cranston from Marie Claire, The New York Times and other publications, and elegant book design by award winner Melanie Feddersen from i2i Design pty ltd.
Contributors include: Chaim Topol - David Helfgott - Rabbi Shmuely Boteach - Neshama Carlebach - Alan Dershowitz - Dudu Fisher - Dennis Ross and Marlee Matlin
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A Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788–2008
3rd Edition
Hybrid Publishers
by Serge Liberman
Hard Cover
864 pages, size 175 mm x 245 mm
“…a treasure chest [which] will speed you on an inexorable journey to uncover jewels … a landmark work of scholarship, patience and endless enthusiasm.” Rabbi John S. Levi
This bibliography includes all traceable self-contained books, monographs, pamphlets and chapters from books which in some way pertain to Jews in Australia and New Zealand between 1788 and 2008.
Since the first edition of the bibliography was published over twenty years ago, the author has been working tirelessly to bring it up to date. It is a major work of scholarship, and will provide useful/critical information to readers and researchers wanting to know anything about publications with any connection to Judaism, Jewish people, Jewish themes, history, culture, communal life, education, the Jewish press, architecture and the arts. There is no other single source of the information available in this resource.
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About the author: Born in Russia in 1942, Serge Liberman came to Australia in 1951, where he now works as a medical practitioner. As author of several short-story collections including On Firmer Shores, A Universe of Clowns, The Life That I Have Led, The Battered and the Redeemed and Where I Stand, he has three times received the Alan Marshall Award and has also been a recipient of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award. In addition, he is compiler of two previous editions of A Bibliography of Australian Judaica. He has been Editor and Literary Editor of several respected journals and has contributed to many other publications.
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A Practical Guide to the Laws of Kashrut
Author: Rabbi Pinchas Cohen
Hardcover | 5.75x8.75 in | 67 pages
SKU: 978159264336
This concise and useful book of Hilchot Kashrut is specially crafted fo the modern Jewish home.
Researched and written by Rabbi Pinchas Cohen, a faculty memeber at Yeshivat Har Etzion in alon Shevut, Israel, it covers a range of frequently asked questions, such as:
*Can one use a dishwasher for both milk and meat dishes?
*What is Glatt Kosher?
A Practical Guide to the Laws of Kashrut is a comprehensive guide for those setting out to make a Kosher kitchen, as well as being a valuable reference for those wanting to be more informed about Kashrut issues.
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Alva's Boy
Alan Collins
Hybrid Publishers
Hybrid Publishers
“I weighed up these women in my life and decided that none of them would fill the role of a mother. But then, what did I know about mothers anyway? … The short answer was nothing – bugger-all.”
Sydney in 1928 and Alva, a young Jewish wife, dies in childbirth. No family member is allowed to care for the baby, so “Alva’s boy” is sent from one children’s home to another. His father weds for the fourth time but young Alan finds his dreams of a real home shattered amid the ruins of this disastrous marriage. He navigates his way through childhood as a street-smart survivor, and not even the archetypal wicked stepmother, her terrible Ma or his own foolish father can rob him of hope.
With a keen ear for authentic dialogue and a wry humour, Alan Collins tells a poignant story with vitality and a remarkable lack of sentimentality. The adult author reconstructs his childhood through the memory of vivid sensory experiences and presents a cast of unforgettable characters. He has an unerring sense of time and place, and through his eyes we glimpse Australia, and in particular Jewish-Australian society, as it was in the 1930s and early 1940s.
He shows us a community caught up in the Great Depression, anticipating and then experiencing war, coping with poverty, ill-prepared for the ‘reffos’ who were coming from Europe. It is a memoir that is so Jewish and at the same time so Australian.
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Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon
by Meir Doron & Joseph Gelman
SKU: 9780615433813
Arnon Milchan has led an extraordinary life. The kind of life one would read about in a John Le Carre spy novel or in a movie made by Hollywood colleagues Steven Spielberg or Oliver Stone.
This is the story of a secret agent, of nuclear proliferation, billion dollar high-tech defense transactions, ideology, patriotism, love, heartbreak, and the awe-inspiring Hollywood career of a mysterious mogul.......
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Crafting Jewish
by Rivky Koenig
***NEW DECEMBER 2008
SKU: CRJH
Crafting Jewish is a unique and beautiful book. It has been designed both for experienced crafters looking for creative and unusual ideas and For beginners just starting to discover the joys of crafts. This book has it all!
■ Over 120 holiday and everyday projects, each with step-by-step instructions
■ Stunning full-color photos of every craft
■ Distinctive ideas for holiday get-togethers - many with delicious recipes
■ Pictorial reference guide of crafting tools and product buying guide
■ Full-size templates and comprehensive index
The entire family will love creating these marvelous, homemade crafts - and the warm and loving family traditions that you create at the same time, as you enjoy Crafting Jewish.
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Dancing With the Hurricane
By Leon Silver
In the tradition of The Reader comes a powerful coming-of-age novel set in post-World War II Europe, Israel and Australia.
At the hospital bed of his comatose uncle, Laibel Goldenstein recounts their family′s extraordinary journey from war-torn Europe to the fledgling state of Israel and then on to Australia. It is a cathartic tale of new beginnings, both for the family and their adopted homes, and the reader is plunged headlong into exotic, startling environments. Fresh and vibrant, alternately joyous and heartbreaking, this is a story of loss, but also of moving forward and ′coming to terms with one′s exile′. Written in an intensely visual and engaging episodic style, Dancing with the Hurricane goes fearlessly into Lily Brett territory and emerges not just unscathed but triumphant.
This compelling story is loosely autobiographical but has all the benefits of fiction in developing themes and a stunning array of images: of memory, hope, dashed dreams, and achievement - not to mention popular music - as Laibel struggles with a past he has previously attempted to suppress. It′s an insightful blend of the public and the personal, the historical and the contemporary.
Stylistically and thematically challenging, topical and ambitious, it is a novel which reconciles the present with the past, providing fresh perspectives on resettlement, 20th-century history and the ongoing rift between secularism and fundamentalism.
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Earth to Sky: The Art of Victor Majzner
by Leigh Astbury
Please note: ONLY A FEW LEFT
Australian publication
Hardback
Victor Majzner arrived in Australia in 1959 from Poland via France where he spent a year. His spectacular and unconventional paintings deal with issues of Jewish history in Australia, the Australian cultural landscape and increasingly with the idea of developing a unique, Jewish Art of world standing.
Leigh Astbury, an academic from Monash University who has written extensively about Victor Majzner, traces Majzner’s art from 1967 to 2002 with scholarly attention to biographical and historical detail. Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen contributes an insightful essay about Majzner’s religious (Jewish) paintings.
A feature of this book is the inclusion of Majzner’s drawings as they trace his artistic development.
Limited Edition of 50, each signed and numbered, includes an original etching.
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Fields of Omagh
By Kristen Manning
This story of one of Australiaís most courageous racing champions not only covers his remarkable career but also takes us beyond the track to the tales of his owners and connections and how he transformed their lives.
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From Berlin to Biere: Growing up in the Holocaust
by Joseph Spring
Hybrid Publishers
Memoir
176 pages
In his moving account of how a young boy managed to survive the horrors of the Holocaust, Joseph Spring takes us through the deterioration of conditions under which Jews lived in Germany, his turbulent life as he fled to Belgium, hid in France on false papers, tried to cross the border into Spain and was then betrayed crossing the Swiss border and handed over to the Germans.
He describes life in Buna, a side camp of Auschwitz which supplied slave labour for the chemical combine IG Farben. With his life constantly threatened by hunger, disease or a bullet in Auschwitz, Joseph trained to be a welder and lived from one day to the next until on his eighteenth birthday he was forced to go on a death march.
The book also gives an account of the only court case to have taken place in the Swiss Bundes Gericht in Lausanne (High Court) re Swiss Government's attitude to Jewish refugees, where Joseph accused the Swiss government of participation in genocide.
Using precise details and a clear direct voice, Joseph conveys his experiences vividly and records for posterity the clear facts of this shameful time in Europe’s history.
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God According to God
Author: Gerald Schroeder
Published June 2009
Format: Hardcover | 256 pages
SKU: 978006171015
In this groundbreaking exploration, a biblical scholar and M.I.T.-trained physicist combines decades of research to change the debate between religion and science, presenting a new paradigm of how to understand God.
Gerald Schroeder has spent his career revealing the hand of God in the intricate discoveries of physics. Now, for the first time, he turns his attention to this force, examining both the Bible and the physical world to discover the true nature of God—God according to God.
Schroeder argues that we have ignored those traits of God we find unappealing, replacing them with our personal desire for the all-knowing, all-loving, never-changing deity that so many worship today. This leads to the age-old problem: How can there be such a God when the world is filled with tragedy? Yet Schroeder reveals that this troubling juxtaposition is really smoke and mirrors. The God revealed in the Bible is 100 percent compatible with the world as we know it today. It is our misconception of God that causes the disparity. In fact, the concept of God that atheists rail against and that believers defend is inaccurate.
In God According to God, Schroeder presents a compelling case for the true God, a dynamic God who is still learning how to relate to creation. The key to God's action in the world, according to Schroeder, can be found in a well-known verse in Exodus that is typically translated "I am that which I am." Schroeder's correction that it should be translated "I will be that which I will be" reveals a God that changes to fit the ever-changing world.
This opens our eyes to other characteristics of God that we have long overlooked despite their being present in some of the most popular stories in the Bible—a God who regrets (the flood of Noah), a God who wants us to argue with Him (Jacob wrestling with God in the desert), and thus a God who changes His mind (Moses convinces God to spare the Israelite people), and a God who allowed nature, and the creation itself, from the very start, to rebel (Adam's and Eve's betrayal in Eden).
With riveting chapters on the origins of life, a scientist's view of creation, and the unique place of our planet in the galaxy, God According to God offers a radical paradigm shift that will forever change how we understand God.
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I Only Want to Get Married Once
Author: Chana Levitan
Format: Paperback | 160 pages
SKU: 498-2
For 22 years, Chana Levitan has been educating, mentoring, and enlightening people about how to find real potential in their relationships.
Her classes on the topic are standing-room only. With this book, she is finally sharing her knowledge with a bigger audience.
You ll find a smart, clear relationship guide with 10 essential questions that need to be asked before and during the dating process in order to spot long-term potential.
Filled with real-life anecdotes and insightful dating advice, these chapters will help you better understand yourself and what you really need to succeed in building a loving marriage. There is no rule that heartbreak must be a prerequisite for good judgment!
I Only Want to Get Married Once will help you get it right the first time and gain the confidence to steer through the decision making process of dating.
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Jewcentricity
Author: Adam Garfinkle
Format: Hardcover | 320 pages
SKU:978047019856
A wise and wide–ranging explanation of never–ending exaggeration–by both philo–Semites and anti–Semites–about the Jews
Hamas blames the financial crisis on Jews. Mel Gibson blamed all the wars on Jews. Jews win a disproportionate number of Nobel prizes. Dishy Danish citizen Scarlett Johansson is Jewish, Madonna is into Jewish mysticism, and some claim that Abe Lincoln was Jewish. Who cares? Nearly everyone, it seems. If it′s about Jews, it′s news. Adam Garfinkle looks deeply into the world′s obsession with Jews, positive as well as negative, to find answers about where it comes from and where it might be going. He identifies four categories of exaggeration about Jews: positive bias by Jews and non–Jews, and negative bias by Jews and non–Jews.
Combining insights from history, sociology, religion, and international politics, he explains how a misunderstanding of strategies that have kept the Jewish Diaspora going for millennia have led to distortions about Jewish influence, intelligence, and success–and to charges of chauvinism, financial manipulation, and conspiratorial lever–pulling.
Adam Garfinkle (Washington, DC) is the founding editor of the American Interest, a bimonthly magazine on politics and public affairs. Formerly a speechwriter for both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, Garfinkle has taught international relations at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Tel Aviv University.
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Jews of the Outback: The Centenary of the Broken Hill Synagogue 1910–2010
Suzanne D. Rutland, Leon Mann and Margaret Price
Hybrid Publishers
This is the lovingly prepared account of the history of the Broken Hill Synagogue, from the laying of the foundation stone in November 1910 to its centenary in November 2010. As the spiritual home of the Hebrew Congregation on Wolfram Street, it passed through four epochs, documented in stories, documents, photographs and sketches.
This is the lovingly prepared account of the history of the Broken Hill Synagogue, from the laying of the foundation stone in November 1910 to its centenary in November 2010. As the spiritual home of the Hebrew Congregation on Wolfram Street, it passed through four epochs, documented in stories, documents, photographs and sketches.
On the occasion of the centenary of the synagogue, there is much to celebrate. A fine old building of the early twentieth century survives and the Jewish community, which used to worship there, has been honoured with a Jewish museum that is a place to meet, learn and remember.
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Meditation Capsules: A Mindfulness Program for Children
Author: Janet Etty-Leal
Foreword by Dr Craig Hassed
A practical resource for adults who wish to teach children the skills of mindful meditation.
It outlines a comprehensive program designed for classroom use, ideally with students at upper primary school level.
But the lessons can readily be adapted to suit children of all ages, and the book will provide a helpful guide for parents, youth leaders, social workers and therapists – anyone who has an interest in teaching meditation or the enthusiasm to help children master meditation as a powerful personal tool.
About the author:
Janet Etty-Leal works as a Mindful Meditation Consultant. She has over a decade’s experience conducting meditation workshops for educational, health, corporate and sporting organisations, and is a regular speaker at conferences. Janet’s meditation courses are designed to equip participants with a wide range of life-skills, and are presented with an emphasis on interaction and fun.
"The world needs more books like this.” - Paul Wilson, author of 'The Guru of Calm'
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My Dear Friends
by John S Levi
Hybrid Publishers
256 pages (hardback)
The year 2009 marked the centenary of the birth of Rabbi Herman Max Sanger.
The rabbi’s early life was shaped during the tumultuous years of the German Weimar Republic. A gifted linguist, the Berlin Jewish community appointed him their emissary when the Nazis came to power and he left Berlin just one step ahead of the Gestapo.
The young rabbi arrived in Australia in 1936 and immediately began to build the Australian progressive movement both in Melbourne and Sydney. A brilliant orator and teacher, Sanger saw Temple Beth Israel grow from a small group of discouraged Melbourne Jews into the ‘mother synagogue’ of congregations around Australia and New Zealand. It was often a lonely battle. Rabbi Sanger contended with years of bitter opposition and prejudice.
This fascinating and important biography has been written by his rabbinic successor, Emeritus Rabbi Dr John Levi AM. It has been published by the Australian Jewish Historical Society and sponsored by the Progressive Jewish Cultural Fund.
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Radical Responsibility
Michael J. Harris, Daniel Rynhold & Tamra Wright
Hardcover | 300 pages
SKU: 978159264366
Celebrating one of the greatest Jewish scholars of our time, Radical Responsibility brings together thirteen luminaries of Jewish and Western thought to explore the intellectual legacy of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.
Centred on the fundamental themes of his work, ethics, justice, religion, and leadership this collection advances Rabbi Sacks' lifelong quest to bridge Torah and secular wisdom, highlighting the relevance of the Jewish tradition to the challenges of the twenty-first century.
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Raft
Hybrid Publishers
Howard Goldenberg’s second book, Raft, is a collection of unnerving true stories that reveal the author’s experiences as a doctor in Aboriginal communities and inside an outback prison.
During a period of more than a decade Howard Goldenberg, a middle-aged Orthodox Jew, made over fifty working visits as a relieving doctor for Aboriginal communities in outback Australia. On these visits he observed and recorded the lives of the people he met and treated.
The reader meets a dehydrated baby whose mother gambles away money for food; Zachariah, whose infected elbow hasn’t healed for five years; an old lady who receives a gashed head while fending off her thieving husband; and Ninnigur, one of the “Strong Women” whose tireless work helps women bring babies to term safely and to protect the next generation from malnutrition and disease.
Goldenberg writes, “Aboriginal Australians are not at peace. They are variously unwell, underfed, overfed, afflicted excessively by our lifestyle diseases, confused by our drugs and drink, endowed with income but not with work, living in sickening poverty in paradisiacal places, and distracted from their serious cultural business by the trappings of our serious cultural emptiness.”
Columnist and author Alan Gold exclaims, “Raft is a delicious, warm and endearing look at a side of Australian life known personally to very few of us. Through his measured and beautifully constructed words, we are privileged to glimpse an ancient land and its people through the eyes of a perceptive and sophisticated, but essentially generous, man. This is a book which should be in every home, and every parent’s gift to their children.”
Author Arnold Zable writes, “Goldenberg is both observer and physician, writer and participant, tenacious in his quest for understanding and lived experience, a seeker with a passionate belief in the power of the story.”
Prize-winning biographer and novelist Robert Hillman writes, “Goldenberg is a genuine artist and poet … The book works so well for three reasons: his craft, his sensibility, and his heart … a great achievement.”
Howard Goldenberg is a doctor, writer, marathon runner and Olympic torch bearer. His first book, My Father’s Compass, was published in 2007.
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Soul to Soul & In the Cleft in the Rock - double order
by Deborah Masel
Price is for both books
Buy two of Debbie Masel's special books in one order.
SOUL TO SOUL
When she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2007, Deborah Masel’s life collapsed.
Two and a half years later, her struggle to find meaning in the shadowy world of terminal disease induced her to write not only of her cancer experience, but of threads from the past that were woven into the fabric of this ‘final curtain’.
In her search for comfort and meaning, Deborah found that the world of cancer was dominated by stories of physical survival, which was assumed to constitute “victory”.
Yet her most treasured teacher, a Torah scholar who perished in the Holocaust, had through the text he left behind awakened her to the meaning of spiritual victory.
If he could keep his disciples focussed on God while the Nazis did all they could to brutalize and dehumanize them, surely she could stay focussed and not panic even when the cancer threatened to devour her. Her challenge was to accept the fact of death without losing her love for this dappled world and for the glory of its passing days.
“I know it will mean a lot – as much as a book can mean – to a lot of people”.
– James Kugel, author of How to Read the Bible, Professor Emeritus of Classical and Modern Hebrew Literature at Harvard University
“…an extraordinary spiritual memoir of one woman's struggle with life and death. Debbie Masel writes of her life with cancer with a rare and passionate truthfulness, in which fear, pain, humor and a profound engagement with her Jewish faith all find their place. The rich humanity of her writing makes for compelling reading.”
– Avivah Zornberg , author of Genesis: The Beginning of Desire
IN THE CLEFT OF THE ROCK - Writings on the Five Books of Moses
Deborah Masel’s work is vitally haunted. Haunted by texts and images, which achieve their own life in her prose poems. Drawing from a rich imaginative knowledge of midrashic and hassidic commentary on the Bible, she creates a personal mythology of death and life, darkness and light, void and meaning. Passionately searching, her words draw together fragments of hidden beauty.
I met Debbie in 2003 at the Nahum Goldman seminar in Melbourne. She was in the early stages of a new career as a teacher of Torah. Avid for learning, she sought out every opportunity, including weekly telephone study sessions with teachers in the US and encounters with visiting scholars. I was impressed by her passion and by her literary sensibility and we began a weekly email correspondence which continues till now. We write mostly, but not entirely, about our work on the weekly Parsha. Over the years, I have witnessed Debbie’s maturing authority, as she has become a beloved and respected teacher of Torah, affecting increasingly large audiences with her resonant poetic voice.
Now, we have an opportunity to read a collection of Debbie’s written reflections on the Parsha. These were written in tandem with her oral presentations. They represent in condensed and often brilliant form the nodal images that emerge from the midrashic literature. Sensuously evocative, these images inform an associative language in which paradox and mystery give birth to unforeseen wisdom. Here, Wallace Stevens, Thomas Mann, and Bob Dylan find themselves in a new world. And here, the inner life of a complex modern Jewish woman reaches out to many other lives seeking for more life.
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Soul to Soul: Writings from Dark Places
by Deborah Masel
Our recommendation: "A MUST READ".
You won't want to put this book down - gripping.
When she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2007, Deborah Masel’s life collapsed.
Two and a half years later, her struggle to find meaning in the shadowy world of terminal disease induced her to write not only of her cancer experience, but of threads from the past that were woven into the fabric of this ‘final curtain’.
In her search for comfort and meaning, Deborah found that the world of cancer was dominated by stories of physical survival, which was assumed to constitute “victory”.
Yet her most treasured teacher, a Torah scholar who perished in the Holocaust, had through the text he left behind awakened her to the meaning of spiritual victory.
If he could keep his disciples focussed on God while the Nazis did all they could to brutalize and dehumanize them, surely she could stay focussed and not panic even when the cancer threatened to devour her. Her challenge was to accept the fact of death without losing her love for this dappled world and for the glory of its passing days.
“I know it will mean a lot – as much as a book can mean – to a lot of people”.
– James Kugel, author of How to Read the Bible, Professor Emeritus of Classical and Modern Hebrew Literature at Harvard University
“…an extraordinary spiritual memoir of one woman's struggle with life and death. Debbie Masel writes of her life with cancer with a rare and passionate truthfulness, in which fear, pain, humor and a profound engagement with her Jewish faith all find their place. The rich humanity of her writing makes for compelling reading.”
– Avivah Zornberg , author of Genesis: The Beginning of Desire
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The Book of Amazing Facts and Feats 2
by Nattan Hurvitz & Aharon Yosef Hoffman
Hard Cover / 176 pages
SKU: 5996
Imagine a book crammed so full of information that each page opens your eyes to dozens of different things you've never known before.
Imagine a book that's so eye-opening, riveting, and splendid that you--and your kids--can literally spend hours immersed in it.
Now hold exactly that book you imagined, in your very own hands!
The Book of Amazing Facts and Feats is encyclopedic, bursting with trivia that's anything but trivial.
From Jewish history to motorcycle history, prophets to governments, your mind will delight in the obscure, fascinating, and important facts presented in this beautifully designed coffee-table sized book.
Packed with full-color photographs and divided by topic, this is a real first, a book of world records.
What did the Bais HaMikdash look like when 1.2 million men with their 1.2 million goats or lambs would pass through on Pesach?
Who was the only female ruler of the Jewish Nation?
And which city never had any corpses?
Do you know what the most-crossed border is in the whole world? Who's the fastest talker of all time? Who invented the Yo-Yo, and what's the most common skin condition?
A fantastic present for graduation, housewarming, birthdays, and more.
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The Landy Era
By Len Johnson
Introduction by Ron Clarke
World-class athletics was something that happened overseas, not in Australia.
But on 13 December 1952, all that changed when John Landy ran a mile at Melbourne’s Olympic Park in 4:02.1. In those few minutes, Landy re-ignited the race for the sub-four minute mile and inspired a generation of Australian athletes to challenge the world at distances from 880 yards to the marathon.
Urged on by influential coaches Percy Cerutty and Franz Stampfl, Landy and his distance running mates including Les Perry, Dave Stephens, Al Lawrence, Dave Power, Don Macmillan, Herb Elliott, Albie Thomas, Ron Clarke, Ralph Doubell and Derek Clayton brought Australia international fame and success on the track, including Olympic gold.
In a few short years, Landy led Australia from nowhere to the top of the world.
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The Mystery of You: A journey through the paradoxes of life
by Ron Goldschlager & Adin Steinsaltz
Hybrid Publishers
Paintings by Victor Majzner
408 pages (hardback)
The Mystery of You is a thought-provoking look at ourselves and how we live our lives. It contains a rich tapestry of ideas, beliefs and experiences, challenging the reader in many ways by confront¬ing everyday issues, but always remaining interesting and easy to read.
Many questions are discussed, for example:
What is happening to humanity?
What kind of individuals and communities are we producing?
What have morality and ethics got to do with everyday living?
Where can we find some clues that will give us a head start in our own journey through the maze of living?
The first part of The Mystery of You is written by Ron Goldschlager, a successful businessman and communal identity who cares deeply about humanity and our world.
The second part is a series of articles by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, a philosopher, scholar, educator, advisor to many high-profile international leaders and prolific writer of over 70 books.
Accompanying and complementing the text is a wonderful collection of paintings by Victor Majzner, some produced especially for this work. They are inspiring and colourful illustrations of the important themes in this book.
In a positive and easy-to-digest manner, this book explores Jewish thought and belief, and offers a practical and creative perspective on eternal issues. It consists of seven chapters: Ageing; Belief and Bureaucracy; Continuity; Behaviour; Water and Life with Numbers; This is About Happiness; Science or Religion and Religion or Science.
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Time-Out - Sports Stories as a Game Plan for Spiritual Success
by Dov Moshe Lipman
***NEW DECEMBER 2008
Harcover, 192 Pages
SKU: 978193268796
Time-Out - Sports Stories as a Game Plan for Spiritual Success.
Time-out appeals to the sports fanatic who wonders what Torah can offer him, the Torah scholar who questions whether sports can teach positive lessons, and everyone in-between. Whether it's learning about consistency from Cal Ripken, Jr, developing a work ethic from Michael Jordan, or striving to reach beyond your potential from the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, each chapter keeps you at the edge of your seat cheering for the Torah concept with no less enthusiasm than for the against-all-odds touchdown.
Every entry is a winner and each one conveys a priceless lesson in an unforgettable metaphor.
Rabbi Dov Lipman was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. He attended the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, Yeshivas Mercaz HaTorah in Jerusalem, and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Rabbincal College.
During summers he has been the Head Counselor of Sportstar Academy in America and the Director of Sportstar in Israel. He has a masters in education from Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Discover: Answers to Teenagers (and Adults) to Questions about the Jewish Faith. He is a Rebbi at Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim and Machon Maayan in Bet Shemesh.
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Transfused with Hope
by B. Berger
Format: Hard Cover / 232 Pages
SKU: 978160091074
A medical drama in real life! Parents celebrate the birth of a bouncing baby boy, only to discover that a mystery illness threatens his life, and no doctor can diagnose what it is!
Follow their journey of superhuman strength, together with rock-solid emunah and bitachon, in the race to find the cure for their little baby.
Guaranteed to leave its readers "transfused with hope".
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Whither Thou Goest - The Jewish In-Laws' Survival Guide
by Sorah Shapiro
Format: Harcover, 268 Pages
Here are successful strategies for surviving In-Laws and becoming a great In-Law. This invaluable guide explores the most common points of friction between In-Laws, how to avoid them and how to overcome them. Includes words of advice and solace from psychologists, lawyers, rabbis and those with years of In-Law experience.
If you're getting married or already married you probably need this book.
Sample Chapters
o Modern-day Areas of Marital Conflict Dr. David Pelcovitz
o How to Make Peace with Your Mother-in-law Becky Sweat
o Obeying the Keep Out! Sign Rabbi Avigdor Miller
o He's Mine; No, He's MINE Rebbetzin Feige Twerski
o When In-laws are Not on the Same Page Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis
o Is It Possible to Always Get Along? Rabbi Simcha Feuerman and Chaya Feuerman
o What is the Halacha of In-laws? Rabbi Michael J. Broyde
o In-laws: A Problem That Need Not Exist? Rabbi Reuven AP. Bulka
o The Limits of Respecting In-laws Rabbi Eli J. Mansour
o You're Not Marrying Her Family; Or Are You? Rabbi Avraham Bleich
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o Building a Wholesome In-law Relationship
o Case Histories from a Daughter-in-law's Perspective
o Ten Commandments for a Daughter-in-law
o 10 Tips for Getting Along with Your In-laws
And much, much more…
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Who Knew?
Author: Jack Cooper (Forward by Berel Wein)
The perfect present!
SKU: 476-0
Did you know that the great Jewish sage and physician Maimonides practiced medicine while lying flat on his back?
That a famous passage penned by George Washington was actually the work of a rabbi?
That a Jewish athlete represented Nazi Germany in its infamous 1936 Olympic Games?
That Yasser Arafat was made by the KGB?
These and many more such intriguing stories make up Jack Cooper’s fascinating collection of historical windows on the life of the Jews.
Covering biblical times through to today, these unusual vignettes on the sidelines of history come together to form a story that is anything but a sideline, depicting a resourceful people who have survived and thrived despite the worst history has thrown at them.
Whether you read it straight through, or pick out individual stories to read as the mood strikes, you’re in for a captivating read!
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