American Torah Toons


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A collection of provocative Colages that Illuinates an aspect of each weekly Torah portion from a modern perspective




Teaching Torah


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A teacher's bible for teaching the Five Books of Moses This invaluable guide for preparing to teach or study the weekly Torah portion provides a precise synopsis of each of the 54 parashiyot, as well as overviews of commentaries and sources, capsule biographies of Torah interpreters, and provocative questions. Over 1,000 unusual strategies help readers analyze, extend, and personalize the text. A bibliography and a thematic index make this an especially useful resource for Bar/Bat Mitzvah preparation, sermon/D'var Torah ideas, and Havurah discussions.




Hyman


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Rabbi Hyman Babushkin has headed and cultivated a progressive religious movement, Encounter Judaism, for half a century — but as he turns 83, he has lost his wife, his prostate, and, perhaps, his faith. The loyalty of some of the key women among his cohort is wavering, his leadership is being challenged, and he is beset by fantasies of fleeing back to the ultra-Orthodox world from which he was excommunicated during the heady 1960s. What’s a guru to do? HYMAN is a novel rich in humor, Jewish thought, and provocative questions about power and sexuality as it vaults back and forth through fifty years of American culture.




Be Generous


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This small, captivating volume is a perfect gift and a welcome companion for the times when we all need something to ground us in the moment and give us a chance to catch our breath. Be Generous and the other hundred quick and quirky meditations remind us that lifes little foibles are what life ”and spiritual practice”are really about. Everything from making love to getting up in the middle of the night to pee to parking in the city is fodder for Marells finely-honed sense of being in the moment. The meditations are funny and serious and urge us to practice compassion, bask in abundance, meditate, laugh, and rejoice in our perfect and imperfect lives. They give us the opportunity to breathe. From the book: I Make My Own Decisions I paid fifty dollars to park my car I paid fifty dollars to park my car I paid fifty dollars to park my car Breathe Breathe Thank you Thank you More than a hundred quirky, original meditations are designed to bring you back to the here and now along with black-and-white illustrations by the author that go with meditations on dental floss.




Hallucinogens


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It's been forty years since Timothy Leary sat beside a swimming pool in Cuernavaca, Mexico, ingested several grams of the genus Stropharia cubensis, and experienced a dazzling display of visions that led him to herald the dawning of a New Age. And yet, from the counterculture movement of the 1960s, through the War on Drugs, to this very day, the world at large has viewed hallucinogens not as a gift but as a threat to society. In Hallucinogens, Charles Grob surveys recent writings from such important thinkers as Terence McKenna, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil, illustrating that a reevaluation of the social worth of hallucinogens-used intelligently-is greatly in order.




Index to Jewish Periodicals


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An author and subject index to selected and American Anglo-Jewish journals of general and scholarly interests.







Tikkun


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AJL Newsletter


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Sh'ma


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