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| 1. |  | Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue from The Guilford Press Price: $36.00 Customer Review:  Edwin Friedman is a rabbi, consultant, and scholar who is a pioneer in applying Bowen Family Systems Theory toward leadership in congregational (church and synagogue) settings. Bowen Family Systems Theory is a theory that relies heavily on emotional processes--how emotionally mature a person... |
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| 2. |  | The Synagogue of Satan from RiverCrest Publishing Price: $13.57 Customer Review:  Lets just say that it was a wonderful exercise in unintentional hilarity. I mean, honestly, Synagogue of Satan? What rubbish! |
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| 3. |  | To Pray As A Jew: A Guide To The Prayer Book And The Synagogue Service from Basic Books Price: $12.92 Customer Review:  I bought this to gain a deeper understanding of the history and meaning behind the different prayers one hears in shul or one recites during the day. Well, it worked. A logically arranged work of study that casts light on the what and why of the prayer services. It does get into the minutae, but not... |
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| 4. |  | The Book Your Church* Doesn't Want You to Read: *(Or Synagogue, Temple, Mosque...) from Sterling & Ross, Cambridge House Press Price: $17.13 Customer Review: A must read for anyone who is interested in understanding what religion is all about. |
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| 5. |  | Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary from Jewish Publication Society of America Price: $58.00 Customer Review: This is literally an ESSENTIAL reference for anyone seriously interested in Biblical studies. (I am speaking as a non-Jew who has worked as a professional musician for a number of Reform and Conservative congregations.) It is a side-by-side bilingual (Hebrew and English) edition with running... |
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| 6. |  | The Spirituality Of Welcoming: How to Transform Your Congregation into a Sacred Community from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $14.99 Customer Review: The Spirituality of Welcoming by Dr. Ron Wolfson is an eye opening realistic approach to making your Congregation into a viable, welcoming House of God. A must read for all Board and lay people of congregations. Follow up with Study Sessions to organize all thoughts and ways to impliment... |
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| 7. |  | Rethinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $14.99 Customer Review: Written by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Rethinking Synagogues: A New Vocabulary for Congregational Life is a daring call for transformation in the modern synagogue, particularly the American synagogue. Chapters discuss means of reconceptualizing synagogue life in order to preserve Judaism as a... |
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| 8. |  | The Gutnick Edition Chumash - Synagogue Edition from Kol Menachem Price: $59.99 Customer Review: It is unfortunate that many people looking to become more familiar with "Judaism" will buy this product and come away with a grossly distorted view. The commentaries are geared towards debunking the world of science in exchange for a mystical view that is far more Christian than Jewish. For those... |
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| 9. |  | Becoming a Congregation of Learners: Learning As a Key to Revitalizing Congregational Life from Jewish Lights Publishing | |
| 10. |  | Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel, Jewish Carving Traditions (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life) from Brandeis Price: $26.37 Customer Review: This book is the result of 20+ years of passionate research and travel throughout Eastern Europe, Israel, and America. It illuminates the fascinating connection between jewish carvers in Eastern Europe and iconic American carousel animals. The quantity and quality of works that are featured in the... |
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| 11. | [no image] | Mahzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur from United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Customer Review: This is the official machzor of thr Conservative machzor. It presents the services for both Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kipur together in a single volume. The main body of the text is mostly traditional, and people who went to Orthodox and Conservative synagogues will be familiar with it. However, there... |
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| 12. |  | The Synagogue Survival Kit from Jason Aronson Price: $35.96 Customer Review: I am buying this book for a dear person who is about to become a Jew by choice. Our congregation is Reform/Progressive and like many in our movement, years ago, was weak on liturgical education. I read this book to better appreciate more traditional approaches to Jewish communal prayer. While... |
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| 13. |  | Synagogues (The Great Architecture Series) from MetroBooks (NY) Customer Review: Gruber is a casual and enthusiastic writer and states up front that he is relatively new to the subject. Its nuggets of information are concise and perfectly appropriate for a beginning student. The photographs alone are worth the price of the book but if you're looking to identify the synagogues... |
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| 14. |  | Kabbalat Shabbat: Welcoming Shabbat in the Synagogue (My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries Series) from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $18.24 | |
| 15. |  | Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway , and Hollywood (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) from State University of New York Press Price: $26.40 Customer Review: A superb book - lots of fun - but digestible only in little bites. There is a lot of information in here! |
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| 16. |  | Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $19.95 Customer Review: Finding A Spiritual Home: How A New Generation Of Jews Can Transform The American Synagogue by Rabbi Sidney Schwarz is an informed and informative examination of a new synagogue model for the contemporary American synagogue community. Profiling four synagogues (each of which sports unique... |
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| 17. |  | Houses of Worship: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Religious Architecture from Thunder Bay Press (CA) Customer Review: This is an outstanding book, but it doesn't quite live up to its title. You can't use it as an identification guide to the style of American religious structures, unless you had absolutely no knowledge of what, for example, gothic revival is. If that's the case, you're probably not thinking of... |
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| 18. |  | Jewish Budapest : Monuments, Rites, History from Central European University Press Price: $29.95 Customer Review: Budapest today bustles, driven by efforts to integrate the formely communist country into Nato and the European Union. The beautiful buildings, bridges and sites dating back to the Austo-Hungarian Empire of the 1800's surprise many tourists from the West. But without knowing the history of this city... |
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| 19. |  | The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years, Second Edition from Yale University Press Price: $43.20 Customer Review: Lee Levine is a Professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and this is a fresh perspective on the ancient synagogue (gathering place). According the Levine, the synagogue was not just a replacement for the Temple that was destroyed. It was not only a center of learning and prayer that faced... |
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| 20. |  | The Self-Renewing Congregation: Organizational Strategies for Revitalizing Congregational Life from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $14.96 | |
| 21. |  | In God's Hands from Jewish Lights Publishing Price: $11.55 | |
| 22. |  | American Synagogues: A Century of Architecture and Jewish Community from Rizzoli Price: $36.50 Customer Review: This is a wonderful book, full of perfectly realized images and interesting text. For whatever reason synogogues in the U.S. often are designed in quite daring styles. It is intriguing to observe how each congregation says a bit about themselves in the building style they chose for their synagogue.... |
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| 23. |  | Siddur Sim Shalom : a prayerbook for Shabbat, festivals, and weekdays from Rabbinical Assembly United Synagogue | |
| 24. |  | The Complete Shabbat Synagogue Companion from Jewish Learning Group Price: $9.95 | |
| 25. |  | What You Will See Inside a Synagogue (What You Will See Inside) from Skylight Paths Publishing Price: $8.99 | |
| 26. |  | This House We Build: Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and the People Who Dwell There from The Alban Institute Price: $20.00 Customer Review: "This House We Build: Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and the People Who Dwell There" contains a wealth of wisdom applicable to people who wish to dwell more healthily in churches as well. With major sections devoted to "Healthy Houses," Healthy Congregants," Healthy Clergy," and "Healthy... |
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| 27. | [no image] | Re-envisioning the Synagogue from Hollis Publishing Co. Price: $19.95 | |
| 28. |  | Jewish Sacred Music and Jewish Identity: Continuity and Fragmentation from Paragon House Publishers Price: $16.15 Customer Review: A culture's music is its theme song of identity. "Jewish Sacred Music & Jewish Identity: Continuity and Fragmentation" is a deftly insightful examination of traditional Jewish music with its respects to religion and how it has changed over the years with the assimilation of the cultures around... |
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| 29. |  | Ensure the Future: How Synagogues and Day Schools Can Compete In the Philanthropic Marketplace from Lorne Miller & Associates, Inc. Price: $30.00 | |
| 30. |  | Doors of Redemption: The Forgotten Synagogues of Chicago from BookSurge Publishing Price: $23.99 Customer Review: What an awesome look at history, and a great way to keep these Forgotten Buildings alive for todays generation and future generations. |
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