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1) The rabbi
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Michael Kind was a rabbi, but he was also a man. A man who couldn't help that his heart led him to Leslie, a beautiful minister's daughter. Defying parents and teachers, they dare to love one another and build a life together, in this sweeping drama of love and identity, compassion and crueltly, and a complicated world that will not accept their decisions...."A rewarding reading experience."LOS ANGELES TIMES
Author
Series
Golem and the jinni volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire, form an unlikely friendship on the streets of New York until a fateful choice changes everything.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her many religious transitions, from Hindu disciple to wife of a Christian minister to Jewish rabbi, explores the nature of religious beliefs, and offers outspoken advice on religious intermarriage and other issues.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
How does a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town end up in a freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century? And what happens when a teenage boy thaws him out and miraculously brings him back to life?
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The head of the English department at Boston's Windermere College is murdered and there is no shortage of people who might have done it. Professor Malcom Kent, the victim, was a philanderer, a Peeping Tom and a snob. Rabbi David Small, professor of Judaica at the college investigates, drawn into the case because a suspect is a fellow rabbi.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a controversial celebrity rabbi drops dead over his matzoh ball soup at the famed Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, retired private eye Amos Parisman― a sixtyish, no-nonsense Jewish detective who lives with his addled wife in Park La Brea―is hired by the temple's board to make sure everything is kosher. As he looks into what seems to be a simple, tragic accident, the ante is raised when more people start to die or disappear, and Amos uncovers...
Author
Publisher
Green Bean Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Avery Green loves science. He loves football. He is crazy about Star Wars. But Hebrew school? No, thank you. Avery would rather have his arms sliced off with a lightsaber than sit through one more day of Hebrew School. He's only asked about a million times why he has to go, but no one in his family has managed to convince him"--
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
A cat belonging to a widowed Rabbi and his beautiful daughter eats the family parrot and miraculously gains the ability to speak. Along with the power of speech comes unparalleled sardonic wit, and the cat spares no group or individual as he skewers faith, tradition and authority. The delivery of a box from Russia further complicates things when a painter is discovered inside, more dead than alive. He is on a quest for a hidden tribe and its mythical...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
A new rabbi’s efforts to fix up his aging synagogue are a labor of love—and a comedy of errors—until his congregants fondly pool their talents in this lighthearted celebration of community. Rabbi Ruben loves his synagogue. But he doesn’t love the creaking floorboards, leaking sink, or drafty windows. Surely, he thinks, he can fix it up so it feels cared for, like a happy home! But Rabbi Ruben doesn’t know much about home repair, so when...
17) The Frisco Kid
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A sweetly innocent Polish rabbi travels through 1850s America toward his new congregation and wife in San Francisco. Along the way, he forms an uneasy alliance with an inept bank robber and the two cut a pratfall-filled path across the wild west.
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