With 348 short chapters covering every essential aspect of Jewish history and life--from the Torah to modern American Jewish culture--this invaluable reference is a comprehensive yet thoroughly accessible resource on the fundamentals of Judaism.
In an original and thought-provoking exploration of the hidden power of words, the spiritual leader for the Synagogue for the Performing Arts guides readers through the many dilemmas they face when they talk about others--though gossip, rumor, and private revelation--and to others--through anger, criticism, humiliation, and lying--and shows how to ...
An insightful analysis of what humor reveals about Jewish culture in what might well be the funniest compilation of Jewish jokes ever assembled. Jewish Humor looks at Jewish culture through jokes about the inescapable hold of the Jewish family, Jews in business, Jewish neuroses, and many other subjects. Comedy club/media events in New York and Los ...
An encyclopedia of the Hebrew Bible, describing all the major people, events, laws and ideas of the Jewish scriptures. Rabbi Telushkin is the author of the best-selling works "Jewish Literacy" and "The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism".
Offering a wealth of astute and warmhearted counsel on many of life's most difficult ethical dilemmas, Telushkin outlines his ten commandments of character, explaining why each one is so vital, and then addresses perplexing issues relating to family, friends, work, community, medical ethics, and money.
Thousands of years of Jewish teachings--the Bible and its commentaries, as well as stories, lore, songs, and even jokes--have provided ethical guidance, support, and an identity for "the people of the book." JEWISH WISDOM is an anthology of quotations drawn from the vast scope of Jewish texts, selected by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, who has a knack ...
This first book in a three-volume set by Rabbi Telushkin addresses the vital topic of personal character and integrity. Breathtaking in its scope, this comprehensive presentation of Jewish ethical teaching is a primer on fair speech, gratitude, repentance, humility, and other traits.
Like a Jewish "Book of Virtues, " this volume by the author of "Jewish Wisdom" offers ancient and modern advice on how to live an ethical life in an ethically ambiguous world.
This first book in a three-volume set by Rabbi Telushkin addresses the vital topic of personal character and integrity. Breathtaking in its scope, this comprehensive presentation of Jewish ethical teaching is a primer on fair speech, gratitude, repentance, humility, and other traits.
Ron Martin strangles his girlfriend when she tries to break up with him; convinced by the blackening of the girl's reputation, a jury lets him off with the lightest sentence permitted by law. Outraged, the girl's father, Gerald Braun, explodes, and kills the boy. While many condemn the man for his act of vengeance, his rabbi Daniel Winter does not ...
Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why is the Jewish state the most despised country in the world today? Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, authors of the widely acclaimed The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, take on these momentous question. Why the Jews? discards conventional explanations ...
When a handsome, young psychoanalyst treats a beautiful actress, under hypnosis she becomes a teenager murdered 32 years before. As a current murder spree--with parallels to the teenager's murder--ravages LA, he wonders if the same person can be murdered twice.
Murder isn't unusual in LA. But when feminist Rabbi Myrna Wahl is found dead after appearing on a controversial radio talk show, together with a radical nun and female minister, radio host Rabbi Daniel Winter finds himself the prime suspect. He'll only survive if he can develop the secular talent for detection - all the harder since he seems to be ...
This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book translates the Passover seder's Four Questions into 23 languages and provides capsule histories of the Jews in the countries where the languages are spoken.
In the interactive tradition of "Lest We Forget, " renowned author Rabbi Joseph Telushkin presents a stunning visual history of the Jewish migrations to America. "The Golden Land" is a museum in a book, complete with removable letters, documents, and personal effects.
Amateur detective Rabbi Daniel Winter is faced with the greatest puzzle of his career--just who is his friend Noah Stark? And why does Winter's fiancee so dislike the psychiatrist? When Noah dies a brutal death, Rabbi Winter soon learns that appearances can be deceiving--and deadly.
"A collection of the best thoughts of the world's brightest people! Offers a liberal education in one volume. Provocative, inspiring, funny, brilliant--Telushkin delivers the wittiest quotes, sayings, aphorisms, thoughts and more. From Freud to Maimonides, Heschel to Woody Allen, Weisel to Rodney Dangerfield, Philip Roth to Jewish proverbs--there ...
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