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xxvi, 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
She didn't pray for a miracle / Cynthia Mercati -- The cantor and the klansman / Kathryn Watterson -- Salvation in Sarajevo / Rabbi Richard Plavin -- A special grandfather / Bel Kaufman -- The story of Mary the maid / Naomi Bluestone -- My son the rabbi / Rabbi Michael Gold -- The pretzel lady's Hanukkah / Arnold Fine -- The rebbe said thank you / Rabbi Josef Jacobson -- A hug in prison / Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum -- A ray of peace / Rabbi Harvey Abramowitz -- Rosa / Barbara Sofer -- Stranger than fiction / Rabbi Hillel E. Silverman -- My ideals / Anne Frank -- Choosing life / Rachel Naomi Remen -- Welcome home / Patti Moskovitz -- The earth's song / Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins -- A surprise in Jerusalem / Rebecca Heisler -- Climbing the mountain / Kirk Douglas -- An old woman's warmth / Golda Meir -- Hanukkah in a Soviet prison / Yosef Begun -- Honors at the Kennedy Center / Kirk Douglas -- How do you talk to God? / Rabbi Scott Aaron -- It's only a matter of time / Lisa Lipkin -- The power of a blue box / Hanna Bandes Geshelin -- Four Jewish boys in the Presbyterian Choir / George Burns -- What it means to be a mensch / Rabbi Benjamin Levene retold by Rabbi Jack Riemer -- Standing by His word / Rabbi Roy D. Tanenbaum -- Aaron Feurstein / Rabbi Jack Segal -- Avital / Natan Sharansky -- The power of holding hands / Rabbi Harold Kushner -- The letter / Michael Levy -- Lovers...still / Rabbi Robert A. Alper -- I married her sunshine / Miriam Goldbrenner -- Unspoken blessings / Rachel Naomi Remen -- With faith, back info life / Rabbi Gerald I. Wolpe -- The laundry bag / Chava Weiss -- The first media fundraiser / Miriam Biskin -- Stranger on the bus / Rabbi Lawrence Kushnere -- The merit of a young priest / Yaffa Eliach -- By might or spirit? / Jonathan Elkins -- A simple blessing / Rabbi Steven Z. Leder -- We are all Jews now / Bryan Aubrey -- The temples are burning / Rabbi Mona Alfi as told to Bryan Aubrey -- Let freedom ring in Iowa City / Corinne Stavish -- Fighting for freedom / Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins -- Cardinal Bernardin / Marsha Avons -- A Jewish Christmas story / Irene Frisch -- Go in good health / Lottie Robins -- Upstairs at the Rialto / Elayne Clift -- The story of Raoul Wallenberg / Tom Veres -- The compassion of a king / Beth Huppin -- Jerusalem encounter / Bronia Galmitz Gallon -- A Shabbat miracle / Rabbi Aryeh ben David -- Grandmother's candlesticks / Amy Hirshberg Lederman -- Connecting the generations / Gina Klonoff -- The Rimonim / Denny Pinkus -- The family heirloom / Linda Spiegler -- Of angels and poinsettias / Sara Levinsky Rigler -- The shawl / Laurie Mintz -- Missing the boat / Tanya Bank -- A direct line to heaven / Arnold Fine -- Raisins and almonds / Elizabeth Sussman Nassau -- The world's greatest stand-up comedian / Rabbi Joan S. Friedman -- A hill in Bergen Belsen / Hasidic tale retold by Yaffa Eliach -- Dreaming of Matzah / Rish Krotowski -- The fire of hope / Rabbi Kenneth L. Cohen -- The making of a physician / Judita Hruza -- The day Hitler touched me / Norman W. Jaffe -- The last four digits / Rabbi Hillel Goldberg -- Owing a debt of gratitude / Erica S. Goldman-Brodie -- It should once again see light / Blair P. Grubb -- A Shabbat evening in Warsaw / Patti Moskovitz -- Shoes and hair / Arielle Greenbaum -- The man who waited forty-five years to blow his shofar / Rabbi Allen S. Maller -- Awakening / Blair P. Grubb -- The two eyes / Leah Golomb -- My five-year-old spiritual teacher / Rabbi Devora Bartnoff -- The presence of God / Rachel Naomi Remen -- Diamonds polished here / Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski -- Lost and found / Marsha Arons -- To an audience yet unborn / Rabbi Mordecai Kamenetzky -- Here I am / Rabbi Benjamin Sendrow -- The Jewish mayor and Mother Teresa / Mayor Edward I. Koch -- To make a minyan / Hanoch McCarty -- Harry's blessings / Carole Goldstein -- The Hanukkah party / Rina Friedman |
| Subject |
Jewish way of life -- Anecdotes.
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Spiritual life -- Judaism -- Anecdotes.
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Interpersonal relations -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
Canfield, Jack, 1944-
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Hansen, Mark Victor.
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Elkins, Dov Peretz.
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| ISBN |
1558748997 hardcover |
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9781558748996 hardcover |
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1558748989 tradepaper |
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9781558748989 tradepaper |
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1558749209 paperback |
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9781558749207 paperback |
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