Every Person's Guide to Shavuot

Every Person's Guide to Shavuot
Author: Ronald H. Isaacs
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780765760418

Introduces the customs, laws, traditions, legends, stories, and folklore connected with the holiday of Shavuot

The Shavuot Anthology

The Shavuot Anthology
Author: Philip Goodman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2018-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0827613792

Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals. The Shavuot Anthology elucidates Shavuot's teachings, customs, stories, and lore for a modern generation. In this in-depth compendium, writings by Flavius Josephus and Philo of Alexandria, Talmud and midrash, medieval literature by Moses Maimonides, poetry by Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Ezra, prose by Abraham Joshua Heschel and Ahad Ha'am, and stories by Martin Buber and Sholom Aleichem appear alongside art and dramatizations, arts and crafts, culinary arts and humor, children's stories and games, and programs and projects.

Yossi and Monkeys

Yossi and Monkeys
Author: Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ™
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1512452459

Yossi has no money to buy the food and flowers his family needs for Shavuot. He tries selling the kippahs his wife sewed, but he has no luck—until a mischievous monkey shows up. The monkey's antics attract customers and win Yossi's heart . . . but did Yossi's new friend come to stay?

Sammy Spider's First Rosh Hashanah

Sammy Spider's First Rosh Hashanah
Author: Sylvia A. Rouss
Publisher: Kar-Ben
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0761389369

Sammy Spider wants to taste the golden honey the Shapiros set out for a sweet New Year. Mom tells him to stick to spinning webs, but will curious Sammy listen?

Guess What I Discovered on the Way to Church?

Guess What I Discovered on the Way to Church?
Author: Diane Otto
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2007-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1602663491

For Christians who have wondered why the Church is so different from the Congregation in the Brit Chadasha/New Testament, Otto takes a look at whats missing, when those things were changed or replaced, and by whom. (Christian)

Living as Partners with God

Living as Partners with God
Author: Behrman House
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780874416145

Takes students to a new level of understanding the Jewish People's covenantal relationship with God. it helps students discover how we add to life's holiness through the performance of mitzvot and the vital role students can play in fulfilling the covenant by living as partners with god. grades 4-6.

Shavous Guess Who?

Shavous Guess Who?
Author: Ariella Stern
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2017-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781945560002

It's exciting and interactive for children to guess the rhyming Shavuos riddles, then open the flap to reveal the answers. Cleverly designed so the very young will learn as they go... all about the giving of the Torah, the special holiday mitzvos and foods, the customs and observances of Shavuos, and more! "Hashem had a special gift to give-His Torah that teaches the way to live.Each year, I am the yom tov when,The Jews accept the Torah again!Who am I?*Bright, colorful illustrations of a joyous family celebration bring the holiday to life. This sturdy, hard bound book makes a great gift for boys and girls ages 3 and up. Perfect for preschool classrooms, story time and children's parties!

Daughters of the King

Daughters of the King
Author: Susan Grossman
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1992
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0827604416

Daughters of the King explores women's involvement in and around the synagogue from its antecedents in the bibical period to contemporary times. The contributors to the book, including Susan Grossman, Rivka Haut, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Judith Hauptman, Paula Hyman, and others, represent an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, drawing from history, anthropology, sociology, women's studies, Jewish law, the Bible, and rabbinic thought.

40 Things You Can Do to Save the Jewish People

40 Things You Can Do to Save the Jewish People
Author: Joel Lurie Grishaver
Publisher: Torah Aura Productions
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1997-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781881283225

Because thirteen-year-old Gabe is mentally disabled and has special needs, his rabbi and family create an unconventional bar mitzvah for him, one centered around the story of Noah's ark.

The Energizing Jewish Holidays for Children

The Energizing Jewish Holidays for Children
Author: Gedalia Peterseil
Publisher: Devora Publishing
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780943706924

Introduces eight major Jewish holidays plus the high holidays using words, illustrations, and picture puzzles.