Search results for "jewish"
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Brown, Michael [Brown, Michael]

Again, with all respect to Rabbi Shulman’s devotion to our people and to our traditions, words fail at the astonishing leaps of logic—or, more accurately, the relative suspension of logic—in ...
( Category: other January 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Unknown

But Modena goes even further in his defense. He argues that if Jews are imitating the music of Christians, it is only to reclaim their own lost heritage. Modena is ...
( Category: other January 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-10 | Author:Grunberg, Arnon [Grunberg, Arnon]

I Decide What’s Anti-Semitic THE WHEELBARROW was parked beside Awromele now, and Xavier was panting. It was brighter now, despite the low cloud cover. Morning had broken, people were going ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David G. Dalin

Frankfurter’s Enigmatic Legacy Felix Frankfurter was one of the twentieth century’s most influential jurists. As a Harvard law professor for twenty-five years, he trained a generation of lawyers, judges, legal ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-02 | Author:Paola Gavin [Gavin, Paola]

This dish is a vibrant green colour. The exact proportion of spinach to rice varies widely: some recipes use as much as a kilo (2¼lb) of spinach, others as little ...
( Category: Special Diet December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:George Greenstein [Greenstein, George]

Mohn (Poppy-Seed) Strip Some years ago, a young woman came into the bakery, pointed to several trays on the counter that contained long poppy-seed strips, and asked, “Isn’t there another ...
( Category: Special Diet December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:unknow

Cardoso, Sabbatai Zevi, and Messianic Pretension The messianism of Abraham Miguel Cardoso reveals in an extreme form some of the consequences of the lived experience of the converso. Sedgwick’s analysis ...
( Category: other November 30,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Hershey H. Friedman & Linda Weiser Friedman [Friedman, Hershey H. & Friedman, Linda Weiser]

10 Exaggerated Imagery and Other Hyperbole More Yiddish Curses May the dybbuks of all King Solomon’s mothers-in-law settle in your mother-in-law and may they all nag you at the same ...
( Category: other November 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Shimon Peres

He put the issue to the vote: Declare the state in two days’ time as planned, or wait? By a vote of six to four the ministers of the Provisional ...
( Category: World November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Asher Kravitz [Kravitz, Asher]

CHAPTER 19 After the officers’ visit, Georg grew callous and distant. On the days that he went to school, he came home angry and grumbling. His mother tried to reach ...
( Category: Contemporary November 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-22 | Author:David Minkoff [Minkoff, David]

Jewish mothers don’t differ from any other mothers in the world when it comes to bragging about their sons. Rivkah, trying to outdo another when it came to opportunities available ...
( Category: Humor November 15,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Marla Brettschneider

Moving On This chapter, like the book as a whole, addresses work in process, a movement in creation. Queer feminist Jews and others—alone, in pairs, small groups, and large communities—are ...
( Category: Judaism November 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Dauber

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN once said that “a serious and good philosophical work could be written that would consist entirely of jokes.” Is it true that a good work of Jewish theology—or ...
( Category: Humor November 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-12 | Author:Flavius Josephus [Josephus, Flavius]

CHAPTER 15 Atrocities in the City. Vespasian’s Intervention JOHN was as crafty as a fox. He was eaten up with the love of despotic power and had long been engaged ...
( Category: World November 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Erica Manfred [Manfred, Erica]

Chapter Seventeen Mom had spent a great deal of time deciding what to wear for her death. “What do you think, Rhoda, should I just wear a nightgown, or pajamas?” ...
( Category: World Literature October 24,2017 )