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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: The Book Shelf 463 Archived Articles Found in The Book Shelf Next 20 Articles > 21) Posted Mar 16 2011 Title: What Do You See on Purim? By Rochel Szendro A healthy Purim treat for very little ones has actually been released. Author Bracha Goetz has added a new volume to her bestselling What Do You See? board book series. This is the seventh bright and colorful word-and-picture book that helps teach toddlers basic vocabulary, while happily familiarizing them with objects they see around them in their own lives. Read Article 22) Posted Mar 02 2011 Title: Purim and the Persian Empire: A Historical, Archaeological & Geographical Perspective By Yocheved Golani Feldheim's motto, "Torah Literature of Quality," is well-suited to Purim and the Persian Empire: A Historical, Archaeological & Geographical Perspective. Written by Yeshivat Itri graduate Rabbi Yehuda Landy, this magnum opus is wonderfully prepared, informative and valuable to a wide range of readers. Landy teaches at Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim and is a certified tour guide in Israel. His credentials served his research efforts well. Read Article 23) Posted Feb 16 2011 Title: And Twice the Marrow of Her Bones By Yocheved Golani And Twice the Marrow of Her Bones can take you far from your expectations of a book about losing a child to cancer. The amazingly clear, honest prose can ennoble you no matter what you believe before reading the memoir. Listen as Susan Petersen Avitsour narrates - in her words and her daughter Timora's - the drama leading up to, during and beyond Timora's diagnosis. The family had learned it days before her bat mitzvah. Read Article 24) Posted Dec 15 2010 YU, Koren Collaborate To Publish Torah By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter University presses often publish dense academic books that elicit little interest from the masses. Popular publishing houses sometimes take the opposite route, producing light, aesthetically-pleasing works that some people like calling "fluff." Join the two together, however, and one hopefully gets books that both nourish the soul and please the eye. Such is the nature of a recent collaboration between Yeshiva University Press and Maggid Books (an imprint of Koren Publishers Jerusalem). Read Article 25) Posted Dec 15 2010 Title: The First Ten Days: A down to earth guide to the Days of Awe based on the Sefirot By Yocheved Golani Blow your mind bigger and better as you improve upon preconceived ideas about the High Holidays. This slim paperback holds 87 pages full of wisdom, insight, and keys to personal improvement! Read Article 26) Posted Dec 08 2010 Title: The Haftara Handbook: Lessons from the Prophets for the Contemporary Jew By Yocheved Golani This 381-page paperback belongs in Jewish homes and libraries. It would make a nice textbook for classrooms, too. Rabbi Jonathan Shooter's skill at interpreting archaic language, then presenting it in contemporary parlance, is a gift from Heaven. Read Article 27) Posted Nov 24 2010 Title: The Spirit of the Seasons: Insights into the Yomim Tovim By Yocheved Golani Jews around the world are reflecting on the Jewish New Year season that recently passed. It seems that everybody is struggling with their resolutions to be better and to do better. All of us are worrying about the daunting lead-up to life's next chapter: Thanksgiving season. Xmas parties. Awkward situations, she'elot that make you blush to ask them. Bills. More bills. Tempers. Fourth quarter reports. Bosses cut losses by firing staff. Fear. Panic. You wonder what was gained by going through the Yamim Noraim. I have good news for you: The Spirit of the Seasons by Rabbi Jonathan Shooter can show you insights into the Yamim Tovim to soothe your soul and psyche. Read Article 28) Posted Nov 24 2010 Title: HaMalach HaGoel and Other Bedtime Stories By Yocheved Golani The "Collection of Imaginative Stories" in HaMalach HaGoel and Other Bedtime Stories is a bit on the high-minded side with a few clichés tossed in the mix. Nevertheless, the lap-sized hardcover explains to its readers how to become mature, responsible individuals of integrity. The life lessons are for children aged eight and up. Read Article 29) Posted Nov 17 2010 Title: The Alternative By Simon ben Simonov The Alternative, by Rabbi Yehuda Schwartz, outspoken "Inside View" columnist, is his first book since retiring from The Jewish Press more than 20 years ago. In it, he describes the cosmological connection between Israel and the nations and looks into the future on the subject of Messianism. Read Article 30) Posted Oct 27 2010 Susie Fishbein Does It Again By Sandy Eller With 400,000 copies of her popular cookbooks already sold, kosher cookbook queen Susie Fishbein has become a household name. Her full-color glossy photographs and never-ending supply of innovative, upscale, and tantalizing recipes that just happen to be kosher single-handedly changed the face of kosher cookbooks forever. But it is her newly released seventh cookbook, Kosher by Design: Teens and 20-Somethings, that may be her bestselling cookbook yet. Read Article 31) Posted Oct 20 2010 Title: Benny the Big Shot By Yocheved Golani This colorful tale about the green-eyed monster called "Kina" puts jealousy into Jewish perspective. Share it with children of all ages and let the relief begin. The surprise ending will knock some reality into prejudiced thought patterns. Read Article 32) Posted Oct 20 2010 Title: Remarkable Park By Yocheved Golani This gentle look at nature in 26 pages comes off as a nurturing, quiet read. Lessons about middot tovot and personal potential in Remarkable Park will fill young minds with wonder. Read Article 33) Posted Oct 07 2010 Title: Where Am I? By Yocheved Golani A sweet book for young fingers learning to turn pages, Where Am I is an introduction to literature for little ones. Familiar places and situations will delight the tots identifying them. Read Article 34) Posted Oct 06 2010 Title: Noach: Stranded And Branded By Ari Korenblit Here is a volume about a man sublime, Absolutely, incontrovertibly outstanding in his time. A profound character study of ancestor Noach Rendered in syncopated and metered rhyme. Read Article 35) Posted Sep 29 2010 Title: The Miracle of the Golden Dove and Other Stories By Yocheved Golani A delightful lap-sized hardcover, The Miracle of the Golden Dove and Other Stories holds captivating illustrations that deliver a powerful middot-improving message with the text. Read Article 36) Posted Sep 29 2010 Title: Dragged Out of Gush Katif: The Tale of an American Who Flew To Israel By Shmuel Druk Dragged Out of Gush Katif by Steven Baum is a tell-it-all book that goes behind the scenes of the tragic and unforgettable 2005 Disengagement from Gaza. Baum gives the reader a first-hand account of the events leading up to and following the pullout from Gaza, and the terrible suffering it has caused so many Jews. Read Article 37) Posted Sep 15 2010 Title: Torah Tapestries: Bereshis By Yocheved Golani The winner of a Milken award for education, a popular fixture in Los Angeles and Darchei Binah seminary instructor who resides in the Israeli city of Ramat Bet Shemesh, globetrotting Shira Smiles has lent her learning to the public's reading pleasure. Read Article 38) Posted Sep 01 2010 Title: The BIG Picture: 36 Sessions to Intellectual and Spiritual Clarity By Yocheved Golani The BIG Picture: 36 Sessions to Intellectual and Spiritual Clarity deserves to sell at least as many copies as the Tanach. It's a classroom for spiritual growth. Read Article 39) Posted Aug 19 2010 Title: Rabbi Meir Kahane - His Life and Thought - Volume One: 1932-1975 (Hebrew Edition) By Rabbi Aaron I. Reichel Anyone reading this well-researched and objective biography (just translated into Hebrew) has to be struck by how the focus of Rabbi Meir Kahane's life was on promoting Jewish identity, pride, values, knowledge, and even music, and how minimal a role that actual violence played even in the "militant" Jewish Defense League. Even the limited violence was for deterrence and limited primarily to property damages. Read Article 40) Posted Aug 19 2010 Title: Second Sight By Yocheved Golani The soft, laughter-inflected voice of psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff narrates her autobiography. It keeps readers glued to the pages describing Orloff's formerly tumultuous life as an adolescent intuitive - a correct observer of human emotions - then catches up with her highly respected present. Read Article 463 Archived Articles Found in The Book Shelf Next 20 Articles >
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