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The Tonight Show, the forests of Vermont, and a tiny Polish village are among the settings for these 32 true stories by Rabbi Bob Alper. This is his latest collection, following an earlier book of stories that a Detroit Free Press reviewer called "a volume of spiritual gems." In his new "Thanks. I Needed That," Bob guides the reader to places as diverse as synagogues in Kentucky and London, a small plane flying over Oklahoma, a refusenik's Moscow apartment, comedy clubs, Vermont towns and forests, and even a convention of rabbis. Readers meet a stained-glass artist whose granddaughter is Drew...

Life Doesn't Get Any Better Than This is a collection of true and moving stories, from tales of fatherhood ('The Glance') to a touching recount of the way small gestures lodge themselves in your heart ('Old Lovers'). "It is hard to choose a single story in this collection and to say: 'This is the best, ' or 'this is the one that you really have to read, '" writes Rabbi Jack Riemer, co-founder of the National Rabbinic Network, "Almost all of them pull at my sleeve and say: 'You're not going to talk about me?"

This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions non-Jews ask in everyday conversation. It has answers about Judaism and Jewish culture, customs, identity, language, stereotypes, politics, education, work, families and food. This guide is meant as a quick, introduction for non-Jews in business, schools, congregations, government, medicine, law enforcement, human resources who need a starting point in learning about Jewish neighbors and co-workers. It can lead to deeper conversations.