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| 1. |  | Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir from Penguin Audio Price: $26.56 Customer Review:  I found this book very interesting. I think the questions the author asks are important--especially in regard to the unquestioned fantasies so many people hold of a tyrannical father-god. I'm sorry to read other reviews in which the author is so severely castigated, simply for expressing his own... |
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| 2. |  | The Battle for God from Knopf Price: $26.60 Customer Review:  This book is a fascinating and surprisingly readable history of emergent fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Armstrong traces monotheistic fundamentalism through the 20th century, and details the economic, social, and political circumstances that motivated its leaders, sustained it... |
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| 3. |  | Foreskin's Lament from Riverhead Trade Price: $10.20 | |
| 4. |  | Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition from Trumpeter Price: $10.17 Customer Review: This is one of those books you look for to guide you down the true path to correct worship of The Most High. If you have ever asked,"Is this it,is this all there is", this is a book for you. |
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| 5. |  | The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch from Schocken Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Sue Fishkoff, a journalist, has written a sympathetic but not sycophantic introduction to the Chabad Lubavitch Movement. She does this by describing her visits to and interactions with various Chabad families, reporting their anecdotes, and even providing some hard data. She writes so well that... |
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| 6. |  | Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Disciplines (Pocket Classics) from Paraclete Press (MA) Price: $10.17 Customer Review: This book was given to me as a gift. I hadn't read any of her stuff before, but heard good things about the "Girl Meets God" book. I really liked her perspective, being that she comes from a Jewish background and converted to Christianity later in life. It is a very profound book in that it... |
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| 7. |  | ORTHODOXY from NuVision Publications Price: $9.59 Customer Review: While Chesterton dedicates this book to his mother, he claims that George Slythe Street is the books inspiration and creator. That is, G.S. Street was one of many critics to present an opinion about Chesterton's Heretics, and happened to have presented the opinion to which Chesterton responded. When... |
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| 8. |  | Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels from Beacon Press Price: $10.88 Customer Review: I enjoyed it. And not just because my sister wrote it. For the detractors: 1) It shouldn't threaten you. Virtually every group has its defectors at one time or another (it doesn't mean that the "rebels" are renouncing Hasidism; its structure may be too rigid for them for the time being).... |
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| 9. |  | Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls from NYU Press Price: $18.00 Customer Review: This was such a wonderful eye-opening book about the variety of girls in the Lubavitch community in Crown Heights. This book breaks the stereotype that says that girls from very religious families become "drone-like" or don't have their individuality. Within their very prescribed world, because of... |
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| 10. |  | The Ten Rungs & The Way Of Man: Ten Rungs from Citadel Price: $9.56 | |
| 11. | [no image] | Halakhic Mind from Free Press Customer Review: This is an extremely difficult book, but very rewarding. It is hard to read without an extensive knowledge of both modern philosophy and the physical sciences (especially modern physics). Rabbi Soloveitchik discusses the rationalist systems of metaphysics which were once popular, noting that... |
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| 12. |  | Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox from University of Scranton Press Price: $6.00 Customer Review: Mainly, Shapiro's focus is on the history of the relationship of the general Orthodox leadership--i.e. The Council of Torah Sages (Moetzei Gedolei haTorah), Rabbinical Council of America, and The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada(Agudas haRabonim)--with Orthodox rabbis who... |
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| 13. |  | Gateway to Judaism: The What, How, And Why of Jewish Life from Mesorah Publications, Limited Price: $19.79 Customer Review: The book arrived very quickly and in excellent order. It is very informative to any one wishing to learn more about the Jewish faith or Jewish Race. It will help you to understand their ways and customs and make you appreciate their lifestyle more. It has helped myself as an American Jew to better... |
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| 14. |  | Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism from University of California Press Price: $24.25 Customer Review: people who haven't been exposed to Orthodoxy very much. Just to sum up briefly: the modern Orthodox Manhattanites profiled tend to have busy but slightly empty lives, and are trying to fit their new religious commitment into those lives. Their rabbis tend to focus less on beliefs about Divine... |
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| 15. | [no image] | The Orthodox Jewish Bible from AFI International Publ Price: $30.36 Customer Review:  The title is misleading It is not Orthodox, no less Jewish since it includes the New Testament. The only two Orthodox Translations available are Koren's Jerusalem Bible (Ed. Fisch), and the Artscroll Stone Tanach Edition. |
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| 16. |  | Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry from University of California Press Price: $23.35 Customer Review: Heilman is a student of Erving Goffman, and offers meticulous and insightful analyses of the haredi rituals he observes. He studies a category of Jews who insist upon their essential difference from the rest of humanity, and yet is able to communicate across these self-erected barriers. Marvelous,... |
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| 17. |  | The Way Of Man: According to the Teaching of Hasidism from Citadel Customer Review: Buber is one of the great original thinkers of modern Judaism. He reads here six Hasidic tales and infuses them with his own fundamental perceptions as to the nature of the religious life. He writes with grace and power. And there is in his interpretations and retellings a sense of the holy and the... |
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| 18. |  | Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer (A Jewish Lights Classic Reprint) from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $12.76 Customer Review: Let me just say that if your reading this then buy this book now... fate has brought you here. Read this book over and over and be enriched and renewed angain and again---connected to the ONE source of ALL. |
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| 19. |  | Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy (S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies) from University of California Press Price: $23.35 Customer Review: The basic purpose of this book is to explain the growth of hareidi Orthodoxy (that is, Orthodox Judaism that tends to be not particularly interested in Americanization, and more interested in religious stringency) as opposed to modern Orthodoxy (which tends to combine strict adherence to traditional... |
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| 20. |  | Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation (Hbi Series on Jewish Women) from Brandeis Price: $19.95 Customer Review: This book is a gift to lovers of Torah and critical thinkers. Hartman combines an insightful use of feminist thought and a commitment to traditional Judaism to provide readers with a bold and sensitive understanding of important forces shaping Judaism today. I found all the chapters illuminating.... |
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| 21. |  | Nineteen Letters from Feldheim Customer Review: The basic structure of the book is as follows: at the beginning, a character invented by Hirsch expresses his disenchantment with Judaism, and Hirsch responds. At this point, one might think that Hirsch argues in favor of the Torah being a Divine invention that Jews should therefore obey.... |
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| 22. | [no image] | One People: Tradition, Modernity, and Jewish Unity from Littman Library of Jewish Customer Review: In this book, Sacks (the Chief Rabbi of Great Britian] focuses on how Orthodox Jews should relate to Reform Judaism (and to a lesser extent, other liberal Jewish movements; Sacks focuses on Reform because it is the oldest non-Orthodox denomination, and because it differs more sharply from Orthodoxy... |
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| 23. |  | Onkelos on the Torah: Understanding the Bible Text Leviticus from Gefen Publishing House Price: $27.30 Customer Review: This book represents the third in a five-part series rendering the Targum Onkelos in English. The book is designed both to fulfill the rabbinic requirement to read a the weekly Torah section in the Targum and to provide scholars with an accessible work that explains much of the complexity of... |
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| 24. |  | Holy Brother: Inspiring Stories and Enchanted Tales about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach from Jason Aronson Customer Review: I'm reading this book for a class. It is interesting and gives one much to think about. |
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| 25. |  | Love and Terror in the God Encounter: The Theological Legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $19.95 Customer Review: This book analyzes several of Rav Soloveitchik's responsa and essays, including: *Soloveitchik's essay "Halakhic Man". In this essay, Soloveitchik explains and praises "halakhic man": the self-confident scholar who not only follows halakha, but has a passion for study. The goal of this legal... |
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| 26. |  | Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women from Rutgers University Press Customer Review: The monthly journey to the mikva was the only relevant thing I got out of this book.There was not any other substantive information except an emphasis on monthly mikva attendance.I found the discussion with the book was dry. I would not pay to read on this subject again. |
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| 27. |  | Unlocking the Torah Text from Gefen Publishing House Price: $29.95 Customer Review: Sepher Tov! Unlocking the Torah Text is an excellent introduction to an *adult* understanding of the Torah text. Most of us learned the stories as children. Goldin reintroduces them to us, showing us what we missed and introducing us to the rabbinic and scholarly interaction with the text. In... |
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| 28. |  | Covenental Imperatives: Essays by Walter S. Wurzburger on Jewish Law, Thought and Community from Urim Publications Price: $21.13 | |
| 29. |  | A Chapter of Talmud from Devora Price: $12.89 Customer Review: For readers whose knowledge is scanty, a Chapter of Talmud provides a guide expressly for beginners, using a section of Bava Metzia as an example. Gently steering the reader, the author explains complex arguments but never compromises the integrity of the text, He anticipates where Talmudic logic... |
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| 30. |  | Somewhere a Master: Hasidic Portraits and Legends from Schocken Price: $11.16 | |
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