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torah
Encounters with the past: Parashat Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27)
Jewish Journal
December 4, 2013
Why is this book club different from all other book clubs? I know this phrase is out of season, but the strange confluence of holidays this year permits some flexibility.
Books: It’s mom vs. daughter in Weiner’s latest novel
Danielle Berrin
May 9, 2008
What bestselling author Jennifer Weiner remembers most about her bat mitzvah is her hair.
\”It was really unfortunate hair, really tragic — like short and feathered and awful,\” said Weiner, author of \”In Her Shoes,\” which was adapted as a 2005 film starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette.
House of Repentance: Where no one is beyond redemption
Roberto Loiederman
April 24, 2008
In the small lobby, a teenage boy with blondish hair sits passively on a couch, staring at the wall, not reacting to the threats thrown his way. His mother, her face puffy from crying, pleads with her husband, the boy\’s enraged stepfather, who slams in and out of the building, furiously yelling that the boy stole his car and his money to buy drugs
Life, liberty and the pursuit of beautiful language
Peter L. Rothholz
December 21, 2007
For most of his 92 years, artist Sam Fink has been obsessed with the pursuit of freedom and the beauty of language. Even though he is a painter, he calls language \”the highest form of art, higher even than painting and music.\”
Brotherly Love
Rabbi Elazar Muskin
December 14, 2007
With Chanukah recent history, I came across a fascinating review of a new book, \”The Business of Holidays.\” The book\’s editor, Maud Lavin, notes that 81 percent of U.S. households celebrate Christmas with a tree in their homes, and not everybody is Christian. The line between Christmas and Chanukah has become very blurry in recent years, according to Lavin.
Maybe it’s not so weird, after all
Rob Eshman
December 7, 2007
The first time I visited the Kabbalah Centre, I thought it was weird. The congregants all wore white; the man on the bimah called out letters of the Hebrew alphabet (\”Alef to bet to taph!\”); the letters themselves were displayed in massive typeface on posters around the sanctuary.
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times
Amy Klein
December 28, 2006
If it says in the Torah that embarrassing someone is worse than death, then why does \”Mortified\” seem so Jewish?
The ‘Yearning’ for Torah learning goes to TV
Amy Klein
December 7, 2006
\”If we don\’t have something to yearn for, some dents in our life to fix, some messiness, some crucial quality of our life is missing,\” Kula tells the audience. \”Yearning can be a path to blessing.\”
Guide to Torah fleshes out flat characters in stories
Robert J. Avrech
October 19, 2006
Etshalom\’s book cannot replace a study partner; no single book can do that. I\’m sure that Etshalom would agree with me on this point, but his book is not meant to do that. Etshalom\’s book is meant as a sort of introductory field guide to Torah.
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