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The story of Abraham smashing his father s idols might be the most important Jewish story ever told and the key to how Jews define themselves. In a work at once deeply erudite and wonderfully accessible, Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin conducts readers through the life and legacy of this powerful story and explains how it has shaped Jewish consciousness.

Offering a radical view of Jewish existence, The Gods Are Broken views the story of the young Abraham as the primal trauma of Jewish history, one critical to the development of a certain Jewish comfort with rebelliousness and one...

Insights, ideas and activities for discussing with students what Jewish People have to say about Israel.

A step-by-step guide to creative use of A Dream of Zion: American Jews Reflect on Why Israel Matters to Them in the classroom. Each session includes:

• A clearly stated goal
• An opening hook to grab students' attention
• Intriguing discussion questions to guide students in a personal exploration of the meaning of Israel to them
• Activities to help students broaden their thinking on Israel

Reconnect with the power and promise of engagement with Torah from a modern men's perspective.

This major contribution to modern biblical commentary addresses the most important concerns of modern men issues like relationships, sexuality, ambition, work and career, body image, aging and life passages by opening them up to the messages of the Torah. It includes commentaries by some of the most creative and influential rabbis, cantors, journalists, media figures, educators, professors, authors, communal leaders and musicians in contemporary Jewish life, and...

PMA Best Religion Book of the Year
The inspiring guide to spiritual celebration used in hundreds of congregations--Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist--revised and expanded

"Parents and their children acutely feel the social pressures that surround bar and bat mitzvah. But they want to feel the spiritual promise of the event, the pull of the divine, and the knowledge that they are participating in an event that has meaning both in the ancient past and in the very immediate present. They want to know that the steep incline before them is their family's own...