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		<title>God was the first Lover of words, but Jews were a close second</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jews and Words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, ISBN 978-0-300-15647-8 ©2012, $25.99, p. 204, plus source listing and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The Hebrew Bible announces that God created the heaven and the earth. How did God form them? Through the spoken word, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The post-911 world through interreligious eyes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trialogue and Terror: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam after 9/11 by Alan L. Berger, ed., Cascade Books, Eugene, OR;  ISBN 978-1-60899-546-2 ©2012, $30.00, p. 255, plus index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Domestic stories primarily covered the front page of the New York Times on September 10, 2001. Succeeding days and months would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angel teaches about Maimonides</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maimonides: Essential Teachings on Jewish Faith &#38; Ethics, the Book of Knowledge &#38; the Thirteen Principles of Faith Annotated &#38; Explained by Rabbi Marc D. Angel, PhD, Skylight Paths Publishing, Woodstock, VT; ISBN 978-1-59473-311-6 ©2012, $18.99, p. 172, plus notes and selected bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; By the mid-twelfth century, conditions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book examines Muslim anti-Semitism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sons of Pigs and Apes: Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence by Neil J. Kressel, Potomac Books, Washington, D.C.; ISBN 978-1-59797-702-9 ©2012, $29.95, p. 206, plus addenda and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The word “anti-Semitism” is a relatively new word to the English language, being coined sometime after 1860. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging God in the face of tragedy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fed-Up Man of Faith: Challenging God in the Face of Tragedy and Suffering by Shmuley Boteach, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, New York;  ISBN 978-965-229-606-1 ©2012, $24.95, p. 340, plus addenda By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; World-renown Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, in his latest book The Fed-Up Man of Faith, continues on the path [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Torah teaches reconciliation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Torah of Reconciliation by Sheldon Lewis, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, New York,  ISBN 978-965-229-541-5 ©2012, $24.95, p. 340, plus addenda By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The Torah, the Five Books of Moses, has been commented about so many times that one wonders if anything new can be found within its text. Yet, Rabbi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truly rare occurence: Chanukah-Thanksgiving</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California &#8212; A news story under the byline of Jonathan Mizrahi has been making its way around the Internet. The story says that this year will be the only time that Chanukah will fall on Thanksgiving. So, is the story true? Yes and no. President Lincoln in 1863 proclaimed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli general&#8217;s social commentary is an eye opener</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggling Over Israel’s Soul byElazar Stern, Gefen, Jerusalem, New York; ISBN 978-965-229-576-7 ©2012, $18.00, p. 373, plus notes and indices. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The struggle for Israel’s soul is hardly new. From without, the Hellenists fought for it from the time of Alexander the Great’s conquest of Israel until their defeat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shepherds vs farmers: a queston of biblical philosophy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philosophy of the Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony, Cambridge University Press, New York; ISBN 978-0-521-17667-5 ©2012, $24.99, p. 273, plus notes and indices. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8211;Placing the word “philosophy” next to the expression “Hebrew Scriptures” seems to be incongruous; after all, philosophy is about using reason to find “truths” to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How an educational edict helped shape the Jewish people</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; ISBN 978-0-691-14487-0 ©2012, $39.50, p. 273, plus appendix, bibliography, and index &#160;  By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; How many Jewish doctors and lawyers do you know? How many Jewish farmers? I would hazard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eizenstat peers into a Jewish crystal ball</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Rowman &#38; Littlefield, New York; ISBN 978-1-44422-1627-3 ©2012, $37.50, p. 318, plus notes and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211;Stuart Eizenstat author of The Future of the Jews, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who hid the Aleppo Codex&#8211; and why?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible by Matti Friedman, Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC;  ISBN 978-1-61620-040-4 ©2012, $24.95, p. 277, plus notes By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Unlike the Cairo Geniza, whose vast treasure of medieval correspondence came to light accidentally late in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movement still &#8216;Young&#8217; Israel at 100</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Israel At 100: An American Response to the Challenge of Orthodox Living, 1912-2012; by Yaakov Kornreich, Joel Saibel, Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober; National Council of Young Israel, New York; ISBN 978-1-4751-5792-5 ©2012, $24.95, p. 237 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; To believe that during most of its history, Judaism represented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein at the crossroads of science and religion</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion by Steven Gimbel; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland;  ISBN 978-1-4214-0554-4 ©2012, $24.95, p. 245, including endnotes, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; In 1922, a year after winning the Nobel Prize in physics for what we know today as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So do we have free will or don&#8217;t we?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Determinism or Free Will by Chapman Cohen; Literary Licensing LLC, Whitefish, MT; ISBN 978-1-2581-2881-4 ©2012 reprint of a book published in 1919, $25.95, p. 127 Free Will by Sam Harris; Free Press, New York ISBN 978-1-4516-8347-0 ©2012, $9.99, p. 81, including notes and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211;Judaism provides no help in settling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists contemplate universe&#8217;s origin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Universe from Nothing: Why is there Something Rather than Nothing? by Lawrence M. Krauss; ISBN 978-1-4516-2445-8 ©2012, $24.99, p. 202 The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe is Not Designed for Us by Victor J. Stenger;  ISBN 978-1-61614-443-2 ©2012, $28.00, p. 341, including notes, bibliography, and index &#160; By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Sacred Trash&#8217; tells story of Cairo Geniza</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole;  ISBN 978-0-8052-4258-4 ©2012, $26.95, p. 384, including notes Reviewed by Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The word geniza, from the Hebrew root gimmel, nun, zion, means a hidden treasure, an appropriate name for a millennium’s worth of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Jewish Gospels&#8217; examines emergence of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish Gospels by Daniel Boyarin;  ISBN 978-1-5955846-8-7©2010, $21.95, p. 200, including notes and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, Callifornia &#8211;Thanks to the Jewish general and historian Josephus and the Greco-Jewish philosopher Philo, we know a great deal about the internecine spiritual arguments among the Jews from the mid-second century BCE through the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Works of globe-girdling Yiddish journalist translated to English</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Distant Dreams and Hard Truths: Zionist and Other Writings of Zelman Kagarlitsky by Daniel Harbour, editor, The Lansing Press; ISBN 978-0-9567661-0-6 ©2010, p. 218, including notes and index, cover price unlisted By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Who is Zalman Kagarlitsky? Thanks to Daniel Harbour, the great-grandson of Kagarlitsky, the work of an articulate and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Rasputin actually a friend of the Jews?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rasputin and the Jews: A Reversal of History by Delin Colón; ISBN 978-1-4610-2775-1 ©2010, $15.00, p. 110, including bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The controversies over the deeds and exploits of Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, an illiterate faith healer and prophet from nineteenth century backwater Russia, continue to swirl around his legacy nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbi Samuel offers wide-ranging religious discussion in &#8216;Birth and Rebirth Through Genesis&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birth and Rebirth Through Genesis: A Timeless Theological Conversation, Vol. 1: Genesis 1-3 by Rabbi Michael L. Samuel, Aeon Publishing,  ISBN 978-1-4563-0171-3 ©2011,  p. 495, including excursuses, bibliography, and index; $20.70. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8211; The biblical narrator of the first three chapters of Genesis, whoever he may be: Moses at God’s direction, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;From Within the Tent&#8217; is a book for those wanting intense Jewish study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Within the Tent: The Haftarot by Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart W. Halpern, Editors; Yeshiva University Press, New York; ISBN 978-161-329-0316 ©2011, $29.95, p. 719 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211; Ezra and Nehemiah, prophet and governor respectively, introduced the first public reading of the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, in the late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to keep your marriage working</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The 4 Steps to a Successful Marriage by Sam and Terry Krause, Createspace Publishers, ISBN 978-1466474413 ©2011, $12.95, p. 118 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. &#160; WINCHESTER, California&#8211;There is an old adage about marriage, which goes something like this: a woman marries the perfect man and then spends the rest of her life trying to change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A story of Jewish Detroit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Prayer for the Departed by Bill Broder, The Ainslie Street Project, ISBN 978-1-461-13893-8 ©2011, $12.95, p. 230 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The narrator of the TV show Naked City, a detective series about the 65th police precinct in New York City, which aired from 1958-63, ended each show with “There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Jews believe in heaven?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journey to Heaven: Exploring Jewish Views of the Afterlife by Leila Leah Bronner,  ISBN 978-965-524-047-4 ©2011, $25.95, p. 184 plus notes and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Does Judaism teach the belief in Heaven or Hell? How about resurrection? Transmigration? An afterlife? The answers depend on whom you ask the questions, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New book provides readings for Yom Kippur</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Yom Kippur Readings: Inspiration, Information, Contemplation by Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, Editor; ISBN 978-1-58023-438-2 ©2011, $19.99, p. 311 plus Sources By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Why is Yom Kippur different from all other holidays? On all other holidays synagogues have a meager attendance, but on Yom Kippur they are filled to over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A naturalist rabbi tells her God concept</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The God Upgrade: Finding Your 21st-Century Spirituality in Judaism’s 5,000-Year-Old Tradition by Rabbi Jamie S. Korngold, Jewish Lights, Woodstock, VT; ISBN 978-1-58023-443-6 ©2011, $15.99, p. 129 plus Appendix By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The Jews of seventeenth century Amsterdam repudiated Baruch Spinoza and his philosophy, which rejected much of traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychotherapy for the haredim</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nachas Ruach: Torah-Based Psychotherapy and Tools for Growth and Healing by Dr. Naftali Fish, Targum Press, Brooklyn, NY; ISBN 978-1-56871-50099-9 ©2011, $29.95, p. 304 plus bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211;Abraham J. Twerski, M.D., founder and medical director emeritus of Gateway Rehab, in Pittsburg, PA, relates in an opening letter to the book Nachas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope&#8217;s book on Jesus important interreligious document</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 16:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus of Nazareth, Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection by Joseph Ratzinger, Ignatius, San Francisco;  ISBN 978-1-58617-500-9 ©2011, $24.95, p. 293 plus appendices By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211;Nearly two thousand books on the Amazon website are linked to the words Jesus and Passion. With so many books one might wonder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Witty book examines &#8216;firsts&#8217; in the Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginnings: The First Love, the First Hate, the First Dream… Reflections on the Bible’s Intriguing Firsts by Meir Shalev, Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman, Harmony Books, New York; ISBN 978-0-037-71718-4 ©2011, $25.00, 295 pages By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211; Americans relish someone accomplishing something first! Do you remember who flew the first airplane? How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslim debunks some anti-Semitic myths in Islamic writings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jew is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths That Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism by Tarek Fatah, McClelland &#38; Stewart, Toronto; ISBN 978-0-7710-4783-1 ©2010, $24.95, p. 208 plus notes, bibliography, and index Reviewed by Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Like most people with an Internet account, I receive quite a few emails each day. Most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Jewish Theology in Our Time&#8217; appears to be a smorgasbord</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jewish Theology in Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief,  edited by Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove, PhD. Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT;  ISBN 978-1-58023-413-9 ©2010, $24.95, p. 224 plus notes and suggestions for further reading. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8211;Jewish Theology in Our Time is a collection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Battle of the two Talmuds&#8217; looks at an ancient split between Israel and the Diaspora</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Battle of the Two Talmuds: Judaism’s Struggle with Power, Glory, &#38; Guilt by Leon H. Charney and Saul Mayzlish, Barricade Books, Fort Lee, NJ; ISBN 978-1-56980-439-1 ©2010, $22.95, p. 224 plus glossary By  Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8211; One does not need to listen to very many rabbinic sermons before he or she hears the words, “And the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wex and Telushkin tell us about menshen and others</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Telushkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Wex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How to Be a Mentsh (&#38; Not a Shmuck) by Michael Wex, HarperCollins, New York;  ISBN 978-0-06-177112-5 ©2009, $13.99, p. 178 plus notes and bibliography.  Hillel: If Not Now, When? by Joseph Telushkin, Nextbook, New York, ISBN 978-0-553-8052-4281-2, ©2010, $24.00, p. 217 plus notes and bibliography. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8211;Yiddish speakers are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems in &#8216;Finding Words&#8217; will find your heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Merle Feld]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Finding Words by Merle Feld, URJ Press, New York; ISBN 978-0-8074-1162-9, ©2010, $14.95,  86 pages. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Finding Words by Merle Feld, an award-winning author and playwright, is a book of poetry that pulls at the heartstrings. Feld’s poetry expresses her most intimate feelings on the significance of family and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Torah collection brings out the Smiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Torah Tapestries: Words of Wisdom Woven from the Weekly Parashah, Bereishis by Shira Smiles, Feldheim Publishers, New York; ISBN 978-1-59826-641-2, ©2010, $19.99, 201 pages plus bibliography, index, and glossary (Also available as a Kindle eBook)  By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; In the Book of Deuteronomy (31:10-12), God commanded that every seventh year, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A humorous approach to understanding Kabbalah</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sam "Simcha" Krause]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Waiter…There’s God in My Soup! Learning Kabbalah through Humor by Sam “Simcha” Krause with Terry Krause; ISBN 978-1-553-4537-2980-9, ©2010, $16.00, 98 pages By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Jewish tradition holds that Moses received three things from God on Mt. Sinai. First, he received the Written Law, known as the Torah and Five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunacy is other people&#8217;s religion&#8217;s&#8211;and ours?</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/10/07/lunacy-is-other-peoples-religions-and-ours/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lunacy-is-other-peoples-religions-and-ours</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA['God's Lunatics']]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kondratii Selivanov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Largo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[God’s Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine by Michael Largo, HarperCollins Publishers, New York;  ISBN 978-0-06-173284-3, ©2010, $16.99, p. 536 plus appendix. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8211;By-and-large, encyclopedias are boring to read. As the old saw goes, their plot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Tanya&#039; provides insight into Chassidic thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baal Shem Tov.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bogdan Chmeilnicki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dov Baer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isaac Luria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rami Shapiro]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tanya, the Masterpiece of Hasidic Wisdom: Sections Annotated and Explained by Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Skylight Paths Publishing, Woodstock, NY (Forward by Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi); ISBN 978-1-59473-275-1, ©2010, $16.99, p. 165, plus appendices,  Available in Kindle edition By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Jews were the middlemen between the gentry and the underclass in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Pope Pius XII Become a Saint?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[" Yad Vashem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The Catholic Church has over 10,000 saints and “beati,” or blessed on the roster. Does it really make a difference if there is one more? The answer is probably not for most rank-and-file Catholics. They already have three  saints per day from among whom they can choose for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was the Holocaust the legacy of the Church&#039;s teachings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six Million Crucifixions: How Christians Teachings About Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust by Gabriel Wilensky, Qwerty Publishers, San Diego, CA. ISBN 978-0-984-33467-4, ©2010, $27.95, p. 309, plus appendices. Available in Kindle edition  By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211;Twenty-two of the highest ranking Nazi Party officials were tried from November 20, 1945 to October 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Roman Wars-Was Josephus a Jewish hero or traitor?</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/08/01/book-review-the-roman-wars-was-josephus-a-jewish-hero-or-traitor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=book-review-the-roman-wars-was-josephus-a-jewish-hero-or-traitor</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerusalem’s Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea by Desmond Seward, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA; ISBN 978-0-306-81807-3, ©2009, $28.00, p. 275, plus maps, endnotes, and selected bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Desmond Seward, noted historian and author, in his newest book, Jerusalem’s Traitor provides us with a biography of Joseph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiesel book on Rashi should have been more thorough</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/07/13/wiesel-book-on-rashi-should-have-been-more-thorough/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=wiesel-book-on-rashi-should-have-been-more-thorough</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rashi by Elie Wiesel. Translated from the French by Catherine Temerson, Nextbook ISBN 978-0-8052-4254-6, ©2009, $22.00, p. 90 plus chronology, glossary, and bibliography. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; One would be hard pressed to find a greater Jewish authority than Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhak, known to the world as Rashi. Many religious questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#039;Kiss Every Step&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kiss Every Step by Doris Martin with Ralph S. Martin, Booksurge Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4392-5606-0, ©2009, $14.95, 222 pages By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The year is 1939. Hitler tells the Reichstag that if war erupts, the Jews will be exterminated. Eichmann is placed in charge of the Prague branch of the Jewish Emigration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survivor tells circumstances of entire family living through Shoah</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[AAA--USA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Gurion University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bendzin Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dora Szpringer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doris Martin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin-Springer Institute for Applying the Lessons of the Holocaust to Promote Altruism Moral Courage and Tolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moishe Szpringer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Arizona University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perla Szpringer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yossel Szpringer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Fred Reiss, Ed.D ESCONDIDO, California &#8212; I am sitting next to Doris Martin (nee Dora Szpringer) in her home north of San Diego. She is a Holocaust survivor and author of Kiss Every Step, a harrowing narrative of her family’s odyssey through Eastern Europe to escape the Nazi war machine. I look at Doris [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza flotilla prompts musical messages on Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/06/05/gaza-flotilla-prompts-musical-messages-on-internet/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gaza-flotilla-prompts-musical-messages-on-internet</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO (Staff report)&#8211; With worldwide media focused on the Gaza Flotilla, we at San Diego Jewish World have been experiencing an upsurge in email messages containing links to musical commentaries. Fred Reiss, Ed.D, who often reviews books for us, was moved by a YouTube presentation of a song declaring, &#8220;I am a Jew&#8221;. Ulla [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent minyanim: a growing Generation Y phenomenon</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2010/05/25/independent-minyanim-a-growing-generation-y-phenomenon/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=independent-minyanim-a-growing-generation-y-phenomenon</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[' independent minyanim]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elie Kaunfer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us About Building Vibrant Jewish Communities by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, Jewish Lights Publishing, ISBN 978-1-58023-412-2, ©2010, $18.99, p. 161 + appendices.  By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211;The word minyan in Jewish ritual corresponds to the idea of a quorum. Minyan means having at least ten men assembled together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book places Halevi and his poetry in context</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hillel Halkin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin, Nextbook/Schocken, New York;  ISBN 978-0-8052-4206-5, ©2010, $25.00, p. 353. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California&#8211; Give me the names of three medieval Jewish poets …  Okay, I’ll take just two &#8230; Can you name just one? If you’re like most people, all you heard was the sound of silence. Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at who wrote the Bible &#8212; from the scribes&#039; viewpoints</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karel van der Toorn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible By Karel van der Toorn, Harvard University Press, Cambridge ISBN 978-0-674-03254-5, $18.95,  265 pages  plus 125 pages of notes and selected bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Who wrote the Hebrew Bible, that is, the so-called Old Testament? Jewish tradition says that Moses wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book examines the images Jews have of their own bodies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[AAA--Israel & Mideast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish Body by Melvin Konner, Nextbook, New York; ISBN 978-0-8052-4236-2, $22.00, 255 pages * By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California&#8211;The Jewish people are obsessed with the body. While the Sumerians, Egyptians, Canaanites, and others prayed and sacrificed to idols, the embodiment of their gods, the Hebrews announced to the world that God is invisible. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;The God Virus&#039; analyzes religion from disapproving standpoint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture by Darrel W. Ray, Ed.D., IPC Press, Bonner Springs, Kansas, ISBN 978-0-9709505-1-2, $15.95, 234 pages. Reviewed by Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211;In the mid-1970, Richard Dawkins shook up the fields of biology and genetics with his book, The Selfish Gene. In this work, Dawkins argues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In hands of extremists, Koran justifies Ft. Hood massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran by Robert Spencer, Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC ISBN 978-1-59698-104-1, 2009, $19.95, p. 232 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WESTMINSTER, California&#8211;President George W. Bush, in December 2006, issued greetings to the Muslim world on the occasion of the Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha, which commemorates both the Hajj and Abraham’s [...]]]></description>
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