Chelm is a town without luck until the day a beautiful red-haired woman with a purple hat shows the residents that there is something even better.

Product Description: In a divided world, where the one who shouts the loudest often gets the most attention, a story about compromise and listening."Standing UP!" "Lying DOWN!"What were the people to do? They decided to ask the rabbi of the town. "What are we to do?" they asked...read more

Here are stories that might have happened, about four women of biblical tradition

Product Description: Abuelita’s Secret Matzahs tells the fascinating and little-known story of the Crypto Jews, while illustrating the universal importance of faith for people of all religious denominations. Jacobo loves to visit his abuelita, his grandmother, especially at Easter time...read more

Explorations of how midrash originated and how it is still used today are presented in this study that offers new translations and interpretations of more than twenty midrash texts.

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the world's major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices, challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this important domain of life. It specifically and intentionally focuses on theological and philosophical perspectives from within religious traditions, creating space for the religious traditions to find their voices. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality is firmly grounded in the language and priorities of religious studies, and helps stimulate explorations of whether and how religious communities are tapping their own wisdom and strengths in nurturing today's young people in a complex and changing world. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality will set the stage for new waves of scholarship and dialogue within and across traditions, disciplines, and cultures that will enrich understanding and strengthen how the world's religious traditions, and others, understand and cultivate the spiritual lives of children and adolescents around the globe.

Product Description: One simple, powerful word―hineini―contains the key to deepening your relationship with God and with others. Hineini (Here I am!). This single spoken word appears only fourteen times in the Bible–each time in a memorable and meaningful story: Abraham offering Isaac as a sacrifice to God, Jacob deceiving his father for Esau's birthright, Moses answering the call that comes from the Burning Bush...read more

Product Description: Abuelita’s Secret Matzahs tells the fascinating and little-known story of the Crypto Jews, while illustrating the universal importance of faith for people of all religious denominations. Jacobo loves to visit his abuelita, his grandmother, especially at Easter time...read more

Discusses God's place in the universe and how God touches our world.

In the first test of their faith in God, Adam and Eve pray for the sun to return when they experience their first sunset.

Product Description: This collection of personal narratives takes the pulse of the city of Indianapolis through the everyday experiences of its people. By listening to the voices of the individuals who make their home in the city, Urban Tapestry captures a part of the soul that animates this Midwestern community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Noah's wife Naamah is called upon by God to gather the seeds of every type of plant on Earth and bring them safely onto the ark before the great flood.

Noah's wife Naamah is called upon by God to gather the seeds of every type of plant on Earth and bring them safely onto the ark before the great flood.

Product Description: Sandy Sasso's award-winning classic for children of all faiths, all backgrounds--available for the first time in Spanish!Everyone and everything in the world has a name. What is God's name?This modern fable about the search for God's name celebrates the diversity and, at the same time, the unity of all people of the world...read more

A nondenominational, nonsectarian, and multicultural retelling of the biblical story invites adults' and kids' conversations about anger and how we all have the power to deal with it in either positive or negative ways.

A Jewish family guide to celebrating the arrival of a new daughter focuses on traditional and unconventional ways to officially, and publically, welcome a girl into the faith and culture of Judaism. Original. (view table of contents)

Although each has what the other needs, the rulers of the Kingdom of Midnight and the Kingdom of the Desert are too proud to ask for what they want.

After being told his grandfather went to heaven, Isaiah tries to find out what heaven is

When two wise people leave their lonely, confused town to find out if God really does exist, they make an amazing discovery about where He can be found

Noah's wife Naamah is called upon by God to gather the seeds of every type of plant on Earth and bring them safely onto the ark before the great flood

Product Description: Multicultural, Nondenominational, Nonsectarian Includes steps for exploring the book's theological foundations with students from kindergarten through Grade 4 and above. Lesson plans, classroom activities and more.Contributors: Renée Frank Holtz, Elizabeth McMahon Jeep, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Rabbi Jeffrey L...read more