Judaism

Your Spouse: A Friend or a Lover?
Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy
by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
One of the rules of dating is that when a man tires of the woman he is seeing (or in many cases when a woman tires of a man), he cannot simply call her up and end it. No, that would be too heartless and cruel. Rather, dumping her comes in the form of the

Why Do the Righteous Suffer?
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
There is only one question which really matters: why do bad things happen to good people? All other theological conversation is intellectually diverting; somewhat like doing the crossword puzzle in the Sunday paper and feeling very satisfied when you have

Another Woman
The Get: A Spiritual Memoir of Divorce
by Elise Edelson Katch
To end her 30-year marriage, Elise Eldelson Katch is preassured to participate in an ancient Orthodox ritual that requires her to stand alone before a panel of emotionally distant Orthodox rabbis.

What Kaddish Means
Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew
by Anita Diamant
Beyond language, Kaddish is more than the sum of its words. First and foremost, it is an experience of the senses. Like music, there is no understanding Kaddish without hearing and feeling it and letting go of the words.

The Voices of Women
Love Carried Me Home: Women Surviving Auschwitz
by Joy Erlichman Miller, Ph.D
A powerful, poignant examination of sixteen women's triumphant struggles to survive the Auschwitz Concentration Camp during the Holocaust. Bearing witness to atrocities of genocide during the darkest moment in history, female survivors teach us

What Is Matrix Healing?
Matrix Healing: Discover Your Greatest Health Potential Through the Power of Kabbalah
by Raphael Kellman, M.D.
Traditional Jewish Riddle, Cited In Nathan Ausubel, A Treasury of Jewish Folklore. RIDDLE: A man dreamt that he was on a ship at sea with his father and mother, when the ship began to sink. It was possible to save only himself and one other person

Eden: The First Garden
Finding God in the Garden: Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost
by Rabbi Balfour Brickner
How can one write a book on gardening and God without starting in the most obvious place? Eden is the first garden described in any Western religious literature, and if one accepts what is written about it in the Bible, it must have been an incredible

Cain and Abel: The Choices They Did Not Make
Finding God in the Garden: Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost
by Rabbi Balfour Brickner
The Bible's early emphasis on humanity's free will appears again in the fratricidal tragedy found in chapter 4 of Genesis: the Cain and Abel story. No sooner were Adam and Eve out of the garden than Eve became pregnant

Paradox. Lost.
The Polio Paradox: Understanding and Treating "Post-Polio Syndrome" and Chronic Fatigue
by Richard L. Bruno, H.D., Ph.D.
In this blueprint for well-being Dr. Richard Bruno describes the cause and treatment of Post-Polio Syndrome. Drawing on his two decades of research, he also explains the remarkable parallels between the polio epidemics, PPS, and today's epidemics

When You Try to Please the One You Love
Converting to Judaism: Choosing to Be Chosen : Personal Stories
by Rabbi Bernice Weiss
A striking couple entered my office, referred to me by the rabbi of a major synagogue. Sharon and Seth both had tremendous charisma, sophistication and class. Both were remarkably bright and articulate.

The Delimma of Job
If God Is Good, Why Is The World So Bad?
by Benjamin Blech
In These Troubled Times, People Are Asking Very Difficult Questions About God and Their Faith . . . Why does God allow sickness, torture and evil to exist? If I suffer, does that mean I deserve it? Why do innocent people, especially children, die

Who, What And Where Is God?
New Age Judaism: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World
by Melinda Ribne
Many people will be surprised to find that Judaism is fundamentally aligned with what we think of as the New Age. Many of the things we associated with the New Age are not new but are part of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition.

Values and Goals
How to Be a Jewish Parent: A Practical Handbook for Family Life
by Anita Diamant, Karen Kushner
Jewish parents celebrate the birth of children with delight, with food, and with an ancient promise called brit - covenant. Brit is the way Jews conceive of their relationship with God: it is a contract renewed in every generation when parents gather

Primacy: Make Your Date Know That He or She Comes First
Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandments
by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
I was fifteen years old when I decided that God was cool and that I was going to be a Rabbi, and so I went to a seminary in California. Almost the only issue that united my divorced parents was mutual hostility to the path I had chosen in life.

Body and Soul
Gossip: Ten Pathways to Eliminate It from Your Life and Transform Your Soul
by Lori Palatnik
Mastering the gift of speech serves no purpose unless you realize that you are not just a body, but also a soul. If you believe you are simply a body, put down this book and do whatever you want, as long as you don't get caught.

Making Room for Miracles
The Book of Miracles
by Kenneth L. Woodward
A miracle is an unusual or extraordinary event that is in principle perceivable by others, that finds no reasonable explanation in ordinary human abilities or in other known forces that operate in the world of time and space

Test Your Gossip Quotient
Gossip: Ten Pathways to Eliminate It from Your Life and Transform Your Soul
by Lori Palatnik
Take this simple 5 question quiz to find out your GQ. You can select more than one choice for each answer (be honest now): 1. As you hear some juicy gossip, are you: a) Already planning in your head who you are going to share it with?

The Implications of Free Will
Finding God in the Garden: Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost
by Rabbi Balfour Brickner
The notion that God cannot command our moral choices is reflected through a well-known line found in the Talmud, Judaism's definitive postbiblical authority. There, in tractate Berakot 33b, we read that everything is in the hands of God except the fear

Mady D. The Spirit of Goodness
Love Carried Me Home: Women Surviving Auschwitz
by Joy Erlichman Miller, Ph.D
Madeline (Mady) D. was born on April 29, 1930, in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia. Within this small city, she and her older brother were raised in a tight-knit, middle-income family. Mady's father was a businessman who worked out of his home.

The Burden of Uniqueness
Finding God in the Garden: Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost
by Rabbi Balfour Brickner
We do not know how long the good life in Eden lasted for Adam and Eve, but we do learn that at one point, something seems to have gone terribly wrong. What brought Eden down? The answer is found in the following text: And the Lord God commanded man