Every Person's Guide to Shavuot

Every Person's Guide to Shavuot

Author: Ronald H. Isaacs

Publisher: Jason Aronson

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780765760418

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Introduces the customs, laws, traditions, legends, stories, and folklore connected with the holiday of Shavuot


The Shavuot Anthology

The Shavuot Anthology

Author: Philip Goodman

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2018-07

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0827613792

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Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals. The Shavuot Anthology elucidates Shavuot's teachings, customs, stories, and lore for a modern generation. In this in-depth compendium, writings by Flavius Josephus and Philo of Alexandria, Talmud and midrash, medieval literature by Moses Maimonides, poetry by Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Ezra, prose by Abraham Joshua Heschel and Ahad Ha'am, and stories by Martin Buber and Sholom Aleichem appear alongside art and dramatizations, arts and crafts, culinary arts and humor, children's stories and games, and programs and projects.


Yossi and Monkeys

Yossi and Monkeys

Author: Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod

Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ™

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1512452459

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Yossi has no money to buy the food and flowers his family needs for Shavuot. He tries selling the kippahs his wife sewed, but he has no luck—until a mischievous monkey shows up. The monkey's antics attract customers and win Yossi's heart . . . but did Yossi's new friend come to stay?


Sammy Spider's First Rosh Hashanah

Sammy Spider's First Rosh Hashanah

Author: Sylvia A. Rouss

Publisher: Kar-Ben

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0761389369

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Sammy Spider wants to taste the golden honey the Shapiros set out for a sweet New Year. Mom tells him to stick to spinning webs, but will curious Sammy listen?


Guess What I Discovered on the Way to Church?

Guess What I Discovered on the Way to Church?

Author: Diane Otto

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2007-06

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1602663491

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For Christians who have wondered why the Church is so different from the Congregation in the Brit Chadasha/New Testament, Otto takes a look at whats missing, when those things were changed or replaced, and by whom. (Christian)


Living as Partners with God

Living as Partners with God

Author: Behrman House

Publisher: Behrman House, Inc

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780874416145

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Takes students to a new level of understanding the Jewish People's covenantal relationship with God. it helps students discover how we add to life's holiness through the performance of mitzvot and the vital role students can play in fulfilling the covenant by living as partners with god. grades 4-6.


Shavous Guess Who?

Shavous Guess Who?

Author: Ariella Stern

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781945560002

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It's exciting and interactive for children to guess the rhyming Shavuos riddles, then open the flap to reveal the answers. Cleverly designed so the very young will learn as they go... all about the giving of the Torah, the special holiday mitzvos and foods, the customs and observances of Shavuos, and more! "Hashem had a special gift to give-His Torah that teaches the way to live.Each year, I am the yom tov when,The Jews accept the Torah again!Who am I?*Bright, colorful illustrations of a joyous family celebration bring the holiday to life. This sturdy, hard bound book makes a great gift for boys and girls ages 3 and up. Perfect for preschool classrooms, story time and children's parties!


Daughters of the King

Daughters of the King

Author: Susan Grossman

Publisher: Jewish Publication Society

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0827604416

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Daughters of the King explores women's involvement in and around the synagogue from its antecedents in the bibical period to contemporary times. The contributors to the book, including Susan Grossman, Rivka Haut, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Judith Hauptman, Paula Hyman, and others, represent an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, drawing from history, anthropology, sociology, women's studies, Jewish law, the Bible, and rabbinic thought.


40 Things You Can Do to Save the Jewish People

40 Things You Can Do to Save the Jewish People

Author: Joel Lurie Grishaver

Publisher: Torah Aura Productions

Published: 1997-11

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781881283225

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Because thirteen-year-old Gabe is mentally disabled and has special needs, his rabbi and family create an unconventional bar mitzvah for him, one centered around the story of Noah's ark.