Now completely revised, this definitive guide provides a wealth of options for creating a Jewish wedding--whether totally traditional or cutting-edge contemporary--that combines spiritual meaning and joyous celebration.
Kathleen (an ex-Catholic who has converted to the Judaism of her husband) and Joyce (a rarely observant Jew) become friends after they meet at temple. Kathleen has breast cancer, and Joyce is having marital problems, but both find solace in their friendship.
Beginning in 1814 at a funeral, THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN is a portrait of a downtrodden Massachusetts town over the course of a decade. Populated by a large cast of sympathetic and colorful characters, the story follows their lives as they strive, fail, occasionally triumph, and often suffer. The focus of the story is the sad romance, thwarted by ...
This expanded, completely updated and revised edition of the highly acclaimed The Jewish Baby Book includes new ceremonies, a special selection of poems and prayers for use in baby ceremonies, and a section for interfaith families. A unique directory of names that reflect the diveristy of the Jewish experience is included.
As many as five thousand people convert to Judaism each year. Unfortunately, very few resources exist for converts or for their families and communities who will receive them. "Choosing a Jewish Life" provides advice and information that can transform the act of conversion into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and of spiritual and ...
Complete, authoritative, and indispensable, The New Jewish Wedding provides the couple with options--some new, some old--to create a wedding combining spiritual meaning and joyous celebration. Step-by-step, Diamant guides readers through planning the cermony and the party that follows--from finding a rabbi and wording the invitations to hiring a ...
In a heart-wrenching new novel, Diamant tells the story of four women, refugees from Nazi Europe, who find friendship, love, and salvation in a postwar British camp in Palestine.
More than 1,000 Jewish names for boys and girls including the stories and associations that give meaning to the all-important task of Jewish parents in naming their newborn.
Growing up in the 1960s, the notion of a woman rabbi, a woman Israeli Supreme Court judge, an Orthodox female Talmud scholar, or an Orthodox synagogue where women read the Torah from their side of the mechitzah were impossible, even ridiculous scenarios. Yet in the modern day, all of this is reaching the stage of "normative." What's left for ...
With the knowledge, sensitivity, and clarity that have made her one of the most respected writers of guides to Jewish life, Anita diamant shows how to make Judaism's time-honored mourning rituals into personal, meaningful sources of comfort.8
Offering nearly 1,000 names from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible, this is a complete resource for parents-to-be searching for a perfect name for their baby. Each name entry includes the original source language, a translation from the original language, a citation of where the name appears in the Bible, and a description of its meaning.
There are enough baby memory books available today to fill a nursery, but finding one that acknowledges birth as a spiritual celebration is like trying to find a binky in the bottom of the diaper bag. More than just a memory book, THE NEW JEWISH BABY ALBUM shows you how--and why it's important--to create a Jewish home and a Jewish life. It ...
Diamant, the author of popular books on Jewish weddings and baby rituals, now joins with family therapist Kushner to offer creative, practical guidance on how to foster Jewish practices, customs, and values and ways to make them meaningful for children.
From the bestselling author of "The Red Tent" comes indispensable, practical advice for those who wish to build a family and a home imbued with the values and traditions of Judaism.
"The Last Days of Dogtown" is a novel set on Cape Ann, Massachusetts in the early 1800s. But this is not so much a historical novel as a novel of the past, of poor people, widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and 'witches': the kind of people who are generally forgotten by history. Based loosely on published accounts of ...
In the first decades of the nineteenth century there was once a place called Dogtown. Located on a rocky outcrop on Cape Ann, the northernmost boundary of Massachusetts Bay, it was a miserable place really, less a village than a motley collection of people scraping out a meagre existence who had nowhere else to go. Yet the death of a village, even ...
Description: Good. Jewish Lights Publishing, TPB, 1994. Good reading copy with one spine crease, otherwise little wear, no markings or highlighting. read more
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