Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Title: Saving The Jews, Franklin D. Roosevelt and The Holocaust
Posted on: July 19th, 2006
Sections → BooksRobert Rosen admirably puts President Roosevelt right back on his pedestal where he belongs, despite the efforts of dozens of revisionists who would have F.D.R. responsible for the deaths of millions, including a third of our people in the Holocaust during World War II.
Title: Diamond Stories, Enduring Change On 47th Street
Posted on: June 21st, 2006
Sections → Books"There were these two diamond dealers negotiating over a diamond.
Title: The Sentence, A Family’s Prison Memoir
Posted on: June 7th, 2006
Sections → BooksA well-known kosher caterer who has a commissary in Florida that prepares kosher meals for federal prison inmates, and who has also been hosting a kosher-for-Passover holiday program for a number of years, told me a humorous story.
Title: Up, Up, And Oy Vey! – How Jewish History, Culture And Values Shaped The Comic-Book Superhero
Posted on: May 31st, 2006
Sections → BooksI grew up with a cousin who was always escaping from shul in order to read his comic books.
New Edition Of Rashba Responsa (Continued from last week)
Posted on: May 3rd, 2006
Sections → BooksRabbi Joseph Buxbaum's foreword is followed by an introduction by the editors of the fifth volume.
Title: Outwitting History, The Amazing Adventure of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Posted on: April 26th, 2006
Sections → BooksThis memoir, from the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, relates Lansky's experiences learning to speak and read Yiddish in college, only to discover that "his" new language was in danger of passing out of existence.
Title: From Lokshen to Lo Mein
Posted on: March 15th, 2006
Sections → BooksThe Jewish fascination with Chinese food goes beyond the fact that it tastes good.
Title: In Search of Memory, The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Posted on: March 1st, 2006
Sections → BooksDr. Eric R. Kandel, with his family, escaped Nazism in Vienna in 1939 when they came to America.
Title: Rashi’s Daughters, Book One – Yocheved
Posted on: January 11th, 2006
Sections → BooksMs. Anton's book falls into that genre termed historical fiction, but in this extensive volume of over 360 pages, one can begin to wonder if Ms. Anton had a fly on the wall, so realistic are her characterizations. One could wonder it her real calling is as a "medievalist."
Title: Judaism’s Encounter With American Sports
Posted on: December 21st, 2005
Sections → BooksDespite commonly held conceptions that athletic prowess and Jews don't mix, a Jewish fascination and involvement with the world of sports can be traced back throughout the ages.
Title: The Unorthodox Murder Of Rabbi Wahl
Posted on: March 30th, 2005
Sections → BooksI don't know about you - but we really miss the old Harry Kemelman "Friday the Rabbi Slept Late" books - which were some of the first of the genre of rabbinic murder mysteries.
Posted on: March 23rd, 2005
Sections → BooksThroughout Jewish history, we have unfortunately grown accustomed to ransoming our people from being held hostage by many evil empires.
Posted on: March 9th, 2005
Sections → BooksWhether we are involved in kiruv, or in kashrus management, at home, in shuls, or in institutional management, we have a need for a kashrut authority to refer to.
Posted on: March 2nd, 2005
Sections → BooksAt Rose Kryger's funeral, her son Meir, now a physician in Winnipeg, was surprised to learn from the rabbi's funeral oration that his mother had some bottled up secrets and had yearned to be a writer.
Travel Guides From Pelican Publishing
Posted on: February 23rd, 2005
Sections → BooksOur friend, Mr. Ben G. Frank - the famous, inimitable Judaic travel writer - has written a new edition of A Travel Guide To The Jewish Caribbean & South America.
Title: The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery Of A Strange and Dangerous Life
Posted on: February 16th, 2005
Sections → BooksThis biography/adventure story of Essad Bey, nee Kurban Said, born Lev Nussimbaum, creatively ties together many disparate elements in a wonderful tour de force that is both enchanting and spell-binding.
Title: In Our Own Voices – A Guide To Conducting Life History Interviews With American Jewish Women
Posted on: February 2nd, 2005
Sections → BooksThe art of letter writing seems to have gone the way of the buggy whip.
Title: The Lost Princess and Other Kabbalistic Tales of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Posted on: February 2nd, 2005
Sections → BooksStorytelling conveys profound lessons about Hashem and our relationships with other people, and today's students and teachers continue to be inspired by these stories.
Posted on: January 12th, 2005
Sections → BooksThe protagonist in this engrossing murder mystery, David Hirsch, is an attorney who has served eight years in federal prison for his white-collar crimes, including phony billing charges to many of his former clients.
Title: Rescued from The Reich – How One Of Hitler’s Soldiers Saved The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Posted on: January 5th, 2005
Sections → BooksOnce again, Mr. Rigg tells a spellbinding tale, this one of danger and intrigue during wartime Europe.
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