Running the Books
The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Written by Avi Steinberg
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $26.00
Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing...
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Running the Books
Written by Avi Steinberg
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $11.99
Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing...
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Running the Books
The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Written by Avi Steinberg
Read by Dustin Rubin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $22.50
Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing...
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The House of Secrets
The Hidden World of the Mikveh
Written by Varda Polak-Sahm
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $20.00
For Orthodox Jews, immersion in a ritual bath—the mikveh—is the cornerstone of family life and is central to Jewish women’s practice of their faith. Yet women from across the Jewish spectrum frequent the mikveh, often for surprising personal reasons. Roused by her own immersion experience, for years Varda Polak-Sahm, a secular...
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Everyday Holiness
The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
Written by Alan Morinis
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $18.95
Mussar is an illuminating, approachable, and highly practical set of teachings for cultivating personal growth and spiritual realization in the midst of day-to-day life. Here is an accessible and inspiring introduction to this Jewish spiritual path, which until lately has been best known in the world of Orthodox Judaism. The core...
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Unchosen
The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels
Written by Hella Winston
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2006
Price: $16.00
Honorable Mention in the 2012 Casey Medals for Meritorious JournalismWhen Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to escape it.
Unchosen tells...
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Unchosen
The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels
Written by Hella Winston
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 15, 2006
Price: $17.00
Honorable Mention in the 2012 Casey Medals for Meritorious JournalismWhen Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was excited to be meeting members of the highly insular Satmar sect. While several Jewish journalists and scholars have produced largely admiring books describing the Lubavitch way...
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The Rebbe's Army
Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch
Written by Sue Fishkoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $16.00
“Excuse me, are you Jewish?” With these words, the relentlessly cheerful, ideologically driven emissaries of Chabad-Lubavitch approach perfect strangers on street corners throughout the world in their ongoing efforts to persuade their fellow Jews to live religiously observant lives. In The Rebbe’s Army, award-winning journalist Sue Fishkoff gives us the first...
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