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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, Thomas Cahill. List: $23.50 Our Price: $14.10 You Save: $9.40 (40%). From Booklist, 03/15/98:
Cahill, the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), turns his attention to how the Jews' concept of one God changed world culture forever. Setting the scene, he offers an extended tour of the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament), looking at the stories and characters found there with a keen and often-amusing eye. He begins with Avraham (Abraham), who heard a voice and was willing to follow it, and explores how that voice made Avraham's descendants think and believe in ways that were so radically different as to change even the concept of time. . . . Particularly insightful is his discussion of the Ten Commandments and how they changed the hearts as well as the behavior of humankind. Although there are numerous points here with which readers may disagree, they will enjoy the thought-provoking and spirited (in both senses of the word) discourse.
Copyright© 1998, American Library Association. All rights reserved. The New York Times:
...he writes in an easy, relaxed vernacular. And he enjoys himself.... the reader enjoys himself, too, happy to have gaps filled in, amused to read the author's snappy summaries of obscure occurrences, edified by his straightforward interpretations of much-debated episodes.

Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. List: $20.00 ~ Our Price: $14.00 ~ You Save: $6.00 (30%). The wisdom of the Rebbe is timeless. It transcends any one religion and speaks to all who open their heart. Toward a Meaningful Life is a road map for living for Jews and non-Jews alike by one of the foremost religious leaders of our time. His message - that man is responsible for his fellow man - made him unique among other spiritual leaders.
Head of the Lubavitcher movement for forty-four years, the Rebbe addressed aspects of everyday life with contemporary sensibility: birth, education, money, marriage, retirement, and death, as well as such significant issues as abortion, sex, and homosexuality. Referred to simply as "the Rebbe" throughout the world, he was not just the leader of a Chasidic sect but a major political force - virtually every national and local candidate for office sought a meeting with the Rebbe. He was consulted on the Gulf War, the Arab-Israeli situation, the Soviet regime, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now, these inspirational ideas are presented as a blueprint for life in a materialistic world.

How to Be an Extremely Reform Jew, David M. Bader. List: $9.00 ~ Our Price: $7.20 ~ You Save: $1.80 (20%). In the hilarious tradition of Growing Up Catholic and The Yuppie Handbook, here is a rib-tickling, irreverent guide to Jewish life and religion. Certain to leave people of all faiths gasping with laughter, David Bader covers such crucial topics as Extremely Reform diet, circumcision, and holidays. One reader writes:
Hilarious! Really. I'm still enjoying it. I read this months ago. It was funny, very clever, I laughed etc. Now, I keep finding things in it I didn't notice before. Was just thinking about Purim, leafed through the book again, and discovered "Glengarry Glen Purim," a "David Mamet Purim Play." The Passover Chapter has a Cole Porter version of one of the Passover songs. This is truly funny! Anyone who is offended should get over it -- it's classic satire, and much more intelligent than most other Jewish humor these days.

Tales of the Hasidim: Book One: The Early Masters and Book Two: The Later Masters/Two Books in One, Martin Buber (Foreward by Chaim Potok). List: $20.00 ~ Our Price: $16.00 ~ You Save: $4.00 (20%). Martin Buber devoted forty years of his life to collecting and retelling the legends of Hasidism. "Nowhere in the last centuries," wrote Buber in Hasidism and Modern Man, "has the soul-force of Judaism so manifested itself as in Hasidism. . . . Without an iota being altered in the law, in the ritual, in the tgraditional life-norms, the long-accustomed arose in a fresh light and meaning." These marvelous tales--terse, vigorous, often cryptic--are the true texts of Hasidism. The hasidic masters, of whom these tales are told, are full-bodied personalities, yet their lives seem almost symbolic. Through them is expressed the intensity and holy joy whereby God becomes visible in everything.

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Elie Wiesel. List: $15.00 ~ Our Price: $12.00 ~ You Save: $3.00 (20%). The publisher states: "This haunting, impassioned book will make you cry yet, somehow, leave you renewed, with a cautious hope for humanity's future."
Publishers Weekly states, "An exquisite book recommended for all collections."
Library Journal:
[A]s young Elie is torn from his traditional and loving Jewish family, from his Carpathian home, and tossed into the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, we follow the young man to the war's end. He emerges a bedraggled adolescent, an orphan with no homeland. In his passionate, poignant and moving account of those years and the amazing years that followed, a remarkable life unfolds. The long-anticipated memoir of the novelist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is powered by love, compassion, and sometimes rage. It is a treasure that was well worth the wait.
One reader comments:
This is an autobiographical account of Elie Wiesel's experiences of, and involvement in, some of the most important events in our history : the holocaust and the birth of modern Israel. Elie Wiesel seems to me to be a man of immense compassion, deep understanding, and considerable learning. He is also a skilled wordsmith, being a professional journalist, and is therefore capable of expressing his thoughts and feelings in a manner which generates empathy. I was deeply moved by this book.

Mystic Tales from the Zohar, Aryeh Wineman (Editor). $34.95. The Zohar, composed in the late 13th century, is the central text of Jewish mystical tradition. Woven into its series of homilies on the Torah are many stories and parables. This work translates eight of the most interesting and well-developed narratives found in the Zohar, together with notes and detailed commentary. The richness of the Zohar narrative comes alive in Wineman's translations from the medieval Aramaic and in his analysis of the stories. The papercuts by artist Diane Palley express the beauty, mysticism and complexity of these texts.

Guide for the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides. List: $9.95 ~ Our Price: $7.96 ~ You Save: $1.99 (20%). Written for scholars who were bewildered by the conflict between religion and the scientific and philophic thought of the day. It is concerned, basically, with finding a concord between the religion of the Tenach (which Christians call the Old Testament) and its commentaries, and Aristotelian philosophy. After analyzing the ideas of the Tenach by means of "homonyms" Maimonides examines other reconciliations of religion and philosophy (the Moslem rationalists) and then proposes his own resolution with contemporary Aristotelianism. This book is a masterwork that strongly influenced Jewish, Cristian and Moslem thought of the Middle Ages.

Sages and Dreamers: Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Traditions, Elie Wiesel. List: $13.00 ~ Our Price: $10.40 ~ You Save: $2.60 (20%). The Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of more than 30 books, including the bestselling Souls on Fire and, most recently, The Forgotten, offers a collection of 25 portraits of men and women of the Bible, the Talmud, and the Hasidic tradition. Sages and Dreamers is a moving and revealing reminder of our common history, beliefs, and aspirations. Glossary.

Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History, Joseph Telushkin. List: $24.95 ~ Our Price: $17.47 ~ You Save: $7.48 (30%). In this collection of 346 important facts about Judaism and its people, Telushkin ranges through all of Jewish history and literature to extract the enduring concepts one needs to know in order to be a well-informed, modern Jew.
Reference Expert Editor's Recommended Book, 10/01/96:
Rabbi Telushkin has done a favor for us all with his learned book of Jewish history, rituals, ethics and life. Scholarly and fair, witty and fun to read, this is a reference for serious research and casual curiosity. Telushkin provides information, insight, flavor and vignette. Sure he's unstintingly erudite, but he's also an exceptional raconteur.

Entering Jewish Prayer: A Guide to Personal Devotion and the Worship Service, Reuven Hammer. List: $14.00 ~ Our Price: $11.20 ~ You Save: $2.80 (20%). "Learning about prayer is a way of entering the world of Jewish tradition," Rabbi Hammer writes, and the Siddur - the Jewish prayerbook - is the best possible introduction into that world. In it, one is brought face-to-face with Judaism's central struggle for an understanding of God, human life, and the world. Mastery of the Siddur enables one to worship as a Jew and to grasp the essence of Judaism.

Now, in this engaging and highly informative book, Rabbi Hammer provides an introduction to the liturgy of the Siddur. More than a "how-to" guide, Entering Jewish Prayer deals with the basic issues in prayer for the modern worshipper; the historical compilation of the Siddur; the orchestration of the daily, Sabbath, and festival prayers; the themes of special prayers, such as the Blessing After Meals and the Kaddish; and the essential experience of making prayer a vital part of one's life. For anyone who has ever felt lost or confused at a Jewish service, or anyone interested in an introduction to this facet of Jewish literacy, Entering Jewish Prayer provides a key to meaningful participation and spiritual growth.

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All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Elie Wiesel. List: $15.00 ~ Our Price: $12.00 ~ You Save: $3.00 (20%).	The publisher states: "This haunting, impassioned book will make you cry yet, somehow, leave you renewed, with a cautious hope for humanity's future."
	Publishers Weekly states, "An exquisite book recommended for all collections."
	Library Journal: [A]s young Elie is torn from his traditional and loving Jewish family, from his Carpathian home, and tossed into the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, we follow the young man to the war's end. He emerges a bedraggled adolescent, an orphan with no homeland. In his passionate, poignant and moving account of those years and the amazing years that followed, a remarkable life unfolds. The long-anticipated memoir of the novelist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is powered by love, compassion, and sometimes rage. It is a treasure that was well worth the wait.
	One reader comments: This is an autobiographical account of Elie Wiesel's experiences of, and involvement in, some of the most important events in our history : the holocaust and the birth of modern Israel. Elie Wiesel seems to me to be a man of immense compassion, deep understanding, and considerable learning. He is also a skilled wordsmith, being a professional journalist, and is therefore capable of expressing his thoughts and feelings in a manner which generates empathy. I was deeply moved by this book.