Karen Rostoker-Gruber and Ron Isaacs, illus. by C.B. Decker. Behrman/Apples & Honey, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-68115-501-2
Once upon a time in modern Israel, there lived a handsome farmer named Kobi. He has an impressive spread of land in the moshav (a cooperative farming community) and doting animal friends, yet he yearns to find his “perfect match.” Farmer Kobi and...
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Ronald H. Isaacs, Author . Jossey-Bass $22.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-7879-6784-0
The eager student who enjoys the give-and-take of questions and answers will find this book a sheer delight. Since 1975, Isaacs has been rabbi of a New Jersey congregation and co-director of its Hebrew high school. He encourages his congregants and...
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Ronald H. Isaacs, Author Jason Aronson $33.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-7657-9950-0
In this marvelous book, Isaacs, rabbi of Temple Shalom in Bridgewater, N.J., gathers and summarizes miracle stories from numerous Jewish sources, including the Torah, the Talmud and the Zohar. Isaacs opens the book by contending that, in Judaism,...
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Lori Stein and Ronald H. Isaacs. Rowman & Littlefield, $36 (270p) ISBN 978-1-4422-7103-6
Given the abundance of books on the history of Jewish food and recipes for preparing Jewish cuisine, Stein and Isaacs’s uninspired volume, which surveys traditions from different Jewish cultures for holidays and other celebrations in the Jewish...
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Ronald Issacs, Author, Ronald H. Isaacs, Author Jason Aronson $41.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56821-915-8
Beginning with the premise that there is no universally accepted Jewish concept of God, Issacs introduces a variety of Jewish approaches to understanding God. He presents the ways in which the Bible, rabbinic literature, mysticism and prayerbooks...
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Ron Isaacs, Author, Ronald H. Isaacs, Author, Rabbi Ron Isaacs, Author . Jossey-Bass $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7879-7642-2
Food is just one of the 44 topics in this broad-based approach to what's kosher and what's not for Jews. "The word kosher has come to mean... the correct way to do something according to Jewish law and tradition," explains Isaacs....
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