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A Jewish Mother in Shangri-la

By: Rosie Rosenzweig

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An old joke tells of a Jewish woman who treks to the Himalayas to seek an audience with a guru sitting in seclusion on a mountaintop. When at last she comes before him, she implores: "Sheldon, come home!" Rosie Rosenzweig became that Jewish mother—but in real life, the story has a different ending. Instead of asking her Buddhist son, Ben, to come home, Rosie accepts his invitation to find out about Buddhism firsthand. Together they visit retreat centers in Europe and Asia and meet leading meditation masters who are Ben's gurus: Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and Tibetan lamas Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. While struggling to come to terms with Ben's choice of a spiritual path so different from everything that she cherishes, Rosie finds that she is learning more about herself than she anticipated. The adventures of Rosie recounts take her from her Boston suburb to a Zen hermitage in France, an enclave of Tibetan Buddhists in Nepal, and finally to her own spiritual home in Jerusalem. Whether she is practicing mindfulness meditation, sharing a cup of tea with a Zen master, or worrying about bowing down to idols, Rosie is intent in her quest to find common ground between two ancient traditions, to deepen her understanding of her son, and to find a way to her own authentic experience of truth. Hers is a mission of peace that seeks to build a bridge of understanding between cultures and faiths while remaining true to her own Jewish identity.

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Shambhala Publications

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0834826348

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9780834826342

The People on the Beach

Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust

By: Rosie Whitehouse

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The People on the Beach

Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust

By: Rosie Whitehouse

One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches--now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine. From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in the footsteps of those secret passengers, uncovering their extraordinary stories--some told for the first time. Who were those people on the beach? Where and what had they come from, and how had they survived? Why, after being liberated, did so many Jews still feel unsafe in Europe? How do we--and don't we--remember the Holocaust today? This remarkable, important book digs deep and travels far in search of answers.

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308

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Oxford University Press

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1787385205

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9781787385207

A Jewish Mother in Shangri-la

By: Rosie Rosenzweig

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By: Rosie Rosenzweig

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New Jewish Feminism

Probing the Past, Forging the Future

By: Rabbi Elyse Goldstein

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New Jewish Feminism

Probing the Past, Forging the Future

By: Rabbi Elyse Goldstein

Jewish Feminism: What Have We Accomplished? What Is Still to Be Done? “When you are in the middle of the revolution you can’t really plan the next steps ahead. But now we can. The book is intended to open up a dialogue between the early Jewish feminist pioneers and the young women shaping Judaism today.... Read it, use it, debate it, ponder it.” —from the Introduction This empowering anthology looks at the growth and accomplishments of Jewish feminism and what that means for Jewish women today and tomorrow. It features the voices of women from every area of Jewish life—the Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, Orthodox and Jewish Renewal movements; rabbis, congregational leaders, artists, writers, community service professionals, academics, and chaplains, from the United States, Canada, and Israel—addressing the important issues that concern Jewish women: Women and Theology Women, Ritual and Torah Women and the Synagogue Women in Israel Gender, Sexuality and Age Women and the Denominations Leadership and Social Justice

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514

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Turner Publishing Company

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1580236502

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9781580236508

Rosie Thomas 4-Book Collection: The White Dove, The Potter’s House, Celebration, White

By: Rosie Thomas

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Rosie Thomas 4-Book Collection: The White Dove, The Potter’s House, Celebration, White

By: Rosie Thomas

A collection of four stunning ebooks from the author of the runaway bestseller, THE KASHMIR SHAWL.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008115303

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9780008115302

Book's by Rosie Rosenzweig

A Jewish Mother in Shangri-la

A Jewish Mother in Shangri-la

The People on the Beach

The People on the Beach

A Jewish Mother in Shangri-la

A Jewish Mother in Shangri-la

New Jewish Feminism

New Jewish Feminism

Rosie Thomas 4-Book Collection: The White Dove, The Potter’s House, Celebration, White

Rosie Thomas 4-Book Collection: The White Dove, The Potter’s House, Celebration, White

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