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A Circle in the Square
By: Edward Abramson

Price: $24.00 $21.60
ISBN: 9789655240146

A Circle in the Square tells the story of a project that by all the rules of logic should have failed, but instead succeeded wildly. In the 1960s, a time of deep religious and existential crisis, when the question of God’s existence was being debated among people of all faiths, a young man fresh...
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A Fire in His Soul
By: Amos Bunim

Price: $27.99 $25.19
ISBN: 0873064739

The inspiring story of one man's uncompromising determination to build American Jewry.
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A Tale of Two Worlds
By: Devora Gliksman

Price: $27.99 $22.39
ISBN: 9781422608883

This is a panorama of a book, the story of worlds within worlds. It combines many slices of fascinating human interest and the history of Torah worlds. It invites us into the life of a family that will make us smile with admiration, marvel at its courage and accomplishment, and recognize the...
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Great Jews In Entertainment
By: Darryl Lyman

Price: $31.95 $28.76
ISBN: 978-0824604578

 Featuring over one hundred major portraits and two hundred thumbnail sketches, Great Jews in Entertainment is a glorious celebration of Jews in the performing arts. Darryl Lyman, author of the acclaimed biographical works Great Jews in Music and Great Jewish Families, salutes...
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Great Jews in Sports
By: Robert Slater

Price: $28.95 $26.06
ISBN: 9780824604530

Replete with facts, figures and statistics, Great Jews in Sports documents the contribution of Jewish athletes to the world of sports over the past two centuries. From home-run king Hank Greenberg, star of the 1930's and 1940's, to gymnast Kerri Strug, gold-medal winner at the 1996 Atlanta...
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Jewish Sports Legends
By: Joseph Siegman

Price: $26.95 $24.26
ISBN: 1574889516

Following the 1972 Olympics, a sportswriter referred to Mark Spitz, winner of seven gold medals, as "the first great Jewish athlete." He couldn't have been more wrong. As Jewish Sports Legends shows, Jews have excelled at athletics for centuries. This handsome volume illuminates the lives and...
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Lieutenant Birnbaum
By: Meyer Birnbaum

Starting at: $17.99

An elderly Chassidic rebbe sits in a wheelchair surrounded by his devoted followers. Suddenly one of them whispers in his ear, “Oberleutenant Birnbuam send regards.” The rebbe looks up and motions for the circle to split for a tall, lanky man he saw more than thirty years earlier. To the man’s...
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Memorable Encounters
By: Jeremy Kagan, Rabbi Joseph Kaminetsky

Price: $16.99 $13.59
ISBN: 9780899066189

For two generations, the name “Joe Kaminetsky” has been synonymous with making the impossible happen routinely. As the National Director of Torah Umesorah, the National Association for Hebrew Day Schools, Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky was charged by Reb Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, Rabbi Aharon Kotler, and...
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Memories Of A Giant
By: Compilation of Authors

Price: $28.00 $25.20
ISBN: 9657108500

      Published in commemoration of the tenth yahrtzeit of the Rav zt¨l, this volume contains forty-two eulogies, about half of which appear here in print for the first time, including the hesped delivered at the Rav's funeral by his brother, Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik zt¨l. The...
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Orthodoxy Awakens

Price: $27.00 $24.30
ISBN: 9657108470

    Orthodoxy Awakens: The Belkin Era and Yeshiva University tells the story of the emergence of Torah Judaism in the United States and Canada between the years 1940 and 1975. It was during this period of time that Jewish religious life and education succeeded in a...
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Rabbi Meir Kahane
By: Ms. Libby Kahane

Price: $39.99 $35.99

Rabbi Meir Kahane was born in New York City in 1932. He studied at the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, receiving rabbinic ordination in 1956. That same year, he completed his law studies at New York Law School, and he subsequently received a master’s degree in international law from New York University....
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Reb Moshe
By: Rabbi Shimon Finkelman, Rabbi Nosson Scherman

Starting at: $15.99

The inspiring life-story of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
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Sandy Koufax
By: Matt Doeden

Price: $9.95 $8.96
ISBN: 9780822566922

A biography of Sandy Koufax, the Jewish star pitcher for the Dodgers from 1955-1966 and the youngest person ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Sharing Turf
By: Dr. David Lazerson

Price: $17.95 $16.16
ISBN: 1888195991

The popular and intriguing new book by Dr Laz describing his role in bringing the Chasidic and Black communities closer together after the Crown Heights Riots of 1991.  SHARING TURF features: 300 pages, inside picture section, and special news collage. Now a feature motion...
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The Rabbi of 84th Street
By: Warren Kozak

Price: $13.95 $12.56
ISBN: 9780060511029

Always wearing an easy smile, Hasidic rabbi Haskel Besser spreads joy wherever he goes, enriching the lives of his many friends and congregants with his profound understanding of both Orthodox Judaism and human nature. With...
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The Will to Live On
By: Herman Wouk

Price: $15.00 $13.50
ISBN: 9780060955625

Herman Wouk has ranged in his novels from the mighty narrative of "The Caine Mutiny" and the warm, intimate humor of "Marjorie Morningstar" to the global panorama of "The Winds of War and War and Remembrance." All these powers merge in this major new work of nonfiction, "The Will to Live...
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