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  • The Wed-Locked Agunot

    Orthodox Jewish Women Chained to Dead Marriages

    by Susan Aranoff, Rivka Haut ...
    The anguish endured by agunot (chained) Orthodox Jewish women trapped in unhappy or defunct marriages by husbands who refuse to give them a gett (divorce) reveals the power of religious law even when it conflicts with modern societies' moral and legal norms. These women may be civilly divorced but must petition rabbinic courts in their quest to obtain a gett. In these courts women are subject to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Women of the Wall

    Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site

    by Phyllis Chesler, Rivka Haut ...
    "This passionate book documents the legendary grassroots and legal struggle of a determined group of Jewish women from Israel, the United States, and other parts of the world—known as the Women of the Wall—to win the right to pray out loud together as a group, according to Jewish law; wear ritual objects; and read from Torah scrolls at the Western Wall. Eyewitness accounts of physical violence and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Women of the Wall

    Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site

    Edited by Phyllis Chesler, Rivka Haut ...
    An Inspiration to All Who Struggle for Religious and Gender Equality“Our souls yearn to pray, in peace, in the sacred place, to read from our holy Torah, together with other Jewish women.”—from theIn Israel today, the historic Western Wall, known as the Kotel, a holy site for Jewish people, is under the religious authority of the Orthodox rabbinate. Women have only limited rights to practice ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Name Unbroken

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    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    When Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, fifteen-year-old Miklos Friedman drew on his wits to survive. Recruited into forced labour, sent to a ghetto and, ultimately, to the Nazi camps of Auschwitz and Mühldorf, Miklos never stopped fighting to change his fate. After the war, he risked everything in order to leave his past behind. Decades later, a chance meeting in Toronto led Miklos, now Michael ... Read more

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  • The Rebbe

    The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

    by Samuel Heilman, Menachem Friedman ...
    The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern timesFrom the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson—revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe—built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he ... Read more

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  • Shtetl

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Brafsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence -- still relevant to us today -- attempted in ... Read more

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  • The Book of Job

    by Stephen Mitchell ...
    "If Mr. Mitchell gives an eloquent account of the effects of Job's poetry in his introduction, in the translation itself he does even better: he makes those effects come alive. Writing with three insistent beats to the line, and hammering home a succession of boldly defined images, he achieves a rare degree of vehemence and concentration." — John Cross, New York TimesA timeless work of wisdom ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss

    Edited by Steven B. Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and ... Read more

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  • Across the Rivers of Memory

    by Felicia Carmelly ...
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    Ten-year-old Felicia Steigman is confused by the sudden disruption to her life when she is expelled from school and forced to wear a yellow star. But she is completely unprepared for what happens next – the forced abandonment of her home and a gruelling journey, overseen by cruel Romanian Nazi collaborators, to Transnistria, a squalid place that doesn’t even exist on a map. Surviving three years ... Read more

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  • Kitab al Khazari, in English translation

    by Judah Hallevi ...
    Translated by Hartwig Hirschfeld ...
    "Framed as a dialog between the king of the Khazars, a Central Asian kingdom, and a Rabbi, the Khazari is an exposition of late medieval Jewish philosophy. Legend has it that the king of the Khazars held a symposium to decide whether his people should convert to Judaism, Christianity or Islam. This book is a fictional account of the Jewish side of this debate. Judah Ha-Levi, the author, was born ... Read more

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  • The Hero of Budapest

    The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg

    by Bengt Jangfeldt ...
    Translated by Harry D. Watson ...
    The story of Raoul Wallenberg - the Swedish businessman who, at immense personal risk, rescued many of Budapest's Jews from the Holocaust and subsequently disappeared into the Soviet prison system - is one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II. Yet the complete story of his life and fate can only be told now - and for the first time in this book - following access to the Russian and ... Read more

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