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Product Description: "Every Jewish institution," writes Kerry Olitzky, "is undergoing significant change and is in danger of becoming irrelevant to the majority of North American Jews. All these institutions will have to reimagine themselves if they are to survive and grow...read more
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9781566994392 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 22, 2013, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: "Every Jewish institution," writes Kerry Olitzky, "is undergoing significant change and is in danger of becoming irrelevant to the majority of North American Jews.
Product Description: Formerly a URJ Press title.More than the centerpiece of Purim celebrations, the book of Esther is unique in the biblical canon, and raises as many questions as it answers. A rich source for text study, at Purim and throughout the year, this combination of traditional rabbinic views and contemporary criticism creates a readable and relevant commentary...read more
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9780807411391 | Bilingual edition (Urj Pr, February 28, 2010), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Formerly a URJ Press title.
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9781580234092 | 2 edition (Jewish Lights Pub, October 9, 2009), cover price $18.99
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9781580233965 | 1 original edition (Jewish Lights Pub, May 1, 2009), cover price $16.99
Product Description: This book explains the process of spiritual guidance, encourages us to seek it out, and helps prepare those who feel called to become spiritual guides. Drawing from their personal and professional experience, as well as a rich array of traditional Jewish sources, Dr...read more
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9780787910594 | 1 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, October 1, 1997), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: An exploration into why God is needed as a spiritual advisor in everyday life is aimed toward those who are searching for a deeper Jewish spiritual life as well as those who want to lead others on this journey
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9781439223550 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 10, 2009, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: This book explains the process of spiritual guidance, encourages us to seek it out, and helps prepare those who feel called to become spiritual guides.
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9781580233026 | Jewish Lights Pub, December 2, 2006, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Written especially for Christians, a comprehensive guide to the major Jewish holidays explores each holiday's historical development, basic information about the holiday's meaning, and the ways it is observed today.
Formerly a URJ Press title. Shir Hashirim, "The Song of Songs" is the fifth work in Kravitz and Olitzky's series of modern commentaries on fundamental Jewish texts. In this work, the authors juxtapose their own translation of this biblical text next to the original Hebrew. Their line-by-line analysis, which draws upon classic commentaries such as Rashi, Ibn Ezra, and Gersonides, as well and contemporary scholars and essays, examines how "The Song of Songs" can be read as a love story between God and the people Israel.
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9780807408063 | Urj Pr, February 15, 2005, cover price $14.95
9780807408964, titled "Shir Hashirim: A Modern Commentary on the Song of Songs" | Urj Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Formerly a URJ Press title.
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9781580232104 | Jewish Lights Pub, December 1, 2004, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Two rabbis explore the historical meaning and contemporary use of ten Jewish rituals, including observing the Sabbath, keeping kosher, studying torah, prayers, and blessings.
Product Description: In a clear and succinct step-by-step format, the Complete How to Handbook for Jewish Living answers innumerable questions on how to practice Jewish rituals and customs. It is a compilation of the three previous How to Handbooks. Encyclopedic in content, this volume draws together information you want to know but have not been able to find...read more
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9780881258387 | Ktav Pub Inc, June 30, 2004, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In a clear and succinct step-by-step format, the Complete How to Handbook for Jewish Living answers innumerable questions on how to practice Jewish rituals and customs.
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9780881257847 | Ktav Pub Inc, May 1, 2004, cover price $25.00
Product Description: You can understand your Jewish friends and loved ones more fully. A hands-on guide to the most important questions.Introducing My Faith and My Community provides an introduction to both the basics and complexities of Judaism and Jewish life through the lens of an interfaith relationship...read more
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9781580231923 | Jewish Lights Pub, March 1, 2004, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: You can understand your Jewish friends and loved ones more fully.
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9780807408001 | Bilingual edition (Urj Pr, November 1, 2003), cover price $16.95
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9781580231701 | Jewish Lights Pub, November 1, 2002, cover price $16.95
Product Description: An inspiring how-to guide to help you understand and participate in a Jewish spiritual life. Across the spectrum of Jewish observance, people are seeking ways to give higher meaning to their spiritual livesâbut how do you know where to begin, and what should you do first?This easy-to-use handbook explains the why, what and how of ten specific areas of Jewish ritual and practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781580231695 | Jewish Lights Pub, July 1, 2002, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: An inspiring how-to guide to help you understand and participate in a Jewish spiritual life.
Product Description: Book by Isaacs, Ronald H., Olitzky, Kerry M. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780881257137 | Ktav Pub Inc, June 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Book by Isaacs, Ronald H.
Product Description: Rabbis, educators, and longtime colleagues, Kerry M. Olitzky and Leonard S. Kravitz have together produced a series of modern commentaries on fundamental Jewish texts. Each of these editions features a line-by-line translation coupled with the original text and commentary, breathing new life into traditional rabbinic readings...read more
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9780807407578 | Urj Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Rabbis, educators, and longtime colleagues, Kerry M.
Product Description: A guide through the preparations for Passover, defining the observance not only as a religious and social ritual but also a spiritual jorney, one that is repeated and refined through the course of our lives. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780827607057 | Jewish Pubn Society, January 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A guide through the preparations for Passover, defining the observance not only as a religious and social ritual but also a spiritual jorney, one that is repeated and refined through the course of our lives.
Product Description: At day's end, quiet your mind and unburden your heart.These peaceful reflections offer wisdom to "sleep on." For each night of the year, an inspiring quote from a Jewish source and a personal reflection on it from an insightful spiritual leader help you to focus on your spiritual life and the lessons your day has offered...read more
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9781580230919 | Jewish Lights Pub, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: At day's end, quiet your mind and unburden your heart.
Explaining how to provide comfort and healing in times of grief, illness, and other suffering, a guide draws on the spiritual traditions of Judaism to provide healing rituals, prayers, psalms, and other text to help readers discover their personal path toward healing and wholeness. Original.
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9781580230681 | Jewish Lights Pub, August 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Explaining how to provide comfort and healing in times of grief, illness, and other suffering, a guide draws on the spiritual traditions of Judaism to provide healing rituals, prayers, psalms, and other text to help readers discover their personal path toward healing and wholeness.
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9780313308147 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 2000, cover price $122.00
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9780827606661 | Jewish Pubn Society, December 1, 1999, cover price $9.95
Product Description: What a wonderful way to start each day.An inspirational companion of comfort, reassurance, and hope that helps you start each day of the year on a positive noteâwith a powerful quote from a Jewish source, and a brief, striking reflection on it from an inspiring spiritual leader...read more
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9781580230612 | Jewish Lights Pub, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: What a wonderful way to start each day.
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9780881256277 | Ktav Pub Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $12.95
Product Description: Jewish tradition encourages study as a way of honoring the memory of those who are no longer among us. Grief in Our Seasons offers a comforting link between study and the tradition of saying Kaddish, helping those who are mourning to heal at their own pace and to cherish the memory of their loved ones each and every day...read more
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9781879045552 | Jewish Lights Pub, April 1, 1998, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Jewish tradition encourages study as a way of honoring the memory of those who are no longer among us.
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9780881255669 | Ktav Pub Inc, September 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Used, like new.
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