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The Modern Jewish Mom's Guide to Shabbat: Connect and Celebrate--Bring Your Family Together with the Friday Night Meal

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The modern jewish mom's guide to shabbat
Loved this book!!!
Such Inspiration!
A real how-to

The Modern Jewish Mom's Guide to Shabbat: Connect and Celebrate--Bring Your Family Together with the Friday Night Meal
Meredith L. Jacobs
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0061120650
Release Date: 2007-02-20

Book Description

Today, getting everything done in a twenty-four-hour period seems impossible. After working, shuttling the kids to soccer practice, attending PTA meetings, taking the dog to the vet, and organizing a charity event, who has time to bake challah? In The Modern Jewish Mom's Guide to Shabbat, Meredith Jacobs, the ultimate modern mom, shows readers how Shabbat is one of the best ways to bring your family closer in spite of a hectic schedule.

In this must-have guide filled with helpful tips, recipes, prayers, and discussion questions, Jacobs brings Shabbat to her readers with a refreshing and modern twist. Whether you were born and raised Jewish, are in an interfaith marriage, a recent convert, or simply want to bring more tradition to your family and into your home, The Modern Jewish Mom's Guide to Shabbat is perfect for you. Comprehensive, useful, and written in a warm, engaging, and conversational tone—this inspirational hands-on guide will help keep this age-old ritual alive.

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Funny, Practical and Informative.......2007-05-16

This is a wonderful book for both those exploring Shabbat as a new experience or for those wanting to expand their practice. This is not the usual "How To" book. The author shares her practice, how her friends celebrate and other possibilities. There are no judgements.

You will find the blessings, Torah portions along with questions for discussion as well as craft projects and recipes. Funny and thoughtful; both a good guide and a good read!

The modern jewish mom's guide to shabbat.......2007-03-24

This book was well written and easy to read.It provided many suggestions
for keeping not only a religious tradition but family connecting for a meal together. In these fast paced times when two people work ,jobs and activity schedules keep us apart. This book helps alot.

Loved this book!!!.......2007-03-10

I got this book yesterday in the mail from amazon and I love it! I felt like Meredith Jacobs was writing about my own life. As a modern Jewish mom of 2 (1 in preschool at the JCC & the other starting in September), I started having Shabbat about a year ago. I am still working up to my actually cooking the Shabbat meal (noone ate when I tried), but now it has become a tradition for my parents, brother and his family to come over for a Shabbat. I can't wait to try to incorporate some of the great ideas from this book. I'm planning to start tonight.

Such Inspiration!.......2007-03-08

i just started and finished reading this book and wanted to tell everyone what i thought.....i LOVED it....it was funny without being naughty and totally informative and inspiring. it is well written without being stuffy and "Hebrew schooly"....points come across by imparting wisdom, not preaching or sounding holier than thou....i especially liked the anecdotes about Meredith's kids and how other people find meaning in Shabbat.

A real how-to.......2007-03-07

I am the sort of person who gets intimidated easily when faced with something I believe everyone else knows a lot about and I don't know anything. It wasn't until I had children that I started to think about the responsiblity of creating a weekly Shabbat in my house. We'd invite guests, go over to someone's house, or sometimes, hurriedly light candles and cut the challah while moving on to another event. Back then, it would have been nice to have this book handy.

Jacobs' book makes you think about slowing down and making time to really create a meaningful Shabbat. She gives you all the how-tos, without sounding pretentious or judgemental....she simply tells you how she morphed her routine in a way that makes you feel like you can too.

One of the most important parts of the book is the parsha section, with a quick overview of the Torah portion for the week and questions to ask at the dinner table. There are recipes as well, with a whole section about making your own challah and how baking it will enhance your meal.

But best of all is her tone. It is familiar, like you are talking with a new, best friend, in a way that makes you feel she has put her arms around you and said, "You can do it. I'll help."

A fun read, very imformative, and well worth buying. It's in a place of honor next to our table, within easy reach for our Friday night discussions.

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Exposing dysfunctional parenting
Loved this book
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What Night Brings (Working Classics)
Carla Mari Trujillo
Manufacturer: Curbstone Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1880684942

Book Description

What Night Brings focuses on a Chicano working-class family living in California during the 1960s. Marci-smart, feisty and funny-tells the story with the wisdom of someone twice her age as she determines to defy her family and God in order to find her identity, sexuality and freedom.

"Carla Trujillo's What Night Brings puts one more wonderful Latina novelist on the must-read list right up there beside Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez and Cristina Garcia. This moving story, told in the completely convincing voice of its young protagonist, explores living with domestic abuse and longing for the maternal protection that always fails to materialize. We touch the mysteries of religion in a child's life, and are completely captivated by a young girl's budding lesbian identity. Character and situation building are exemplary, yet we are hit hard when the book takes its final turn. What Night Brings is a page-turner that lingers long after the last page has been turned."-Margaret Randall

"A story that is at once heartbreaking and hilarious, beautifully told by a wise and wise-cracking young girl."-Sandra Cisneros

Carla Trujillo was born to a working-class family in Las Vegas, Nevada, and grew up in northern California. She has lived in the San Francisco Bay area for the past 15 years. Her extended family and roots are New Mexican (Chicana). She works as an administrator in diversity -education and advocacy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the editor of the anthology, Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, which won a Lambda Book Award and the Out/Write Vanguard Award in 1992 and is now in its third printing. Her critical study, Living Chicana Theory, is in its second printing and widely used in college classrooms. What Night Brings is her first novel; excerpts from What Night Brings have already won awards from the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund and Writers at Work.

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Very much worth reading.......2006-10-25

Set in the Bay Area of the 1960s, this novel is narrated by Marci Cruz, an eleven-year-old Latina who fervently wishes for two things. The first is for God to turn her into a boy, because she has something of a crush on Raquel, her teenaged neighbor; the second is for Eddie, her father, to disappear.

A couple of times a week, Eddie beats Marci, and Corin, her younger sister, for some infraction, usually with his leather belt. It always occurs when Delia, their mother, isn't home. Eddie always accuses the girls of lying, or says that he had to break up their fight, and Delia always believes him. During an argument, Eddie leaves the house, and doesn't return. Delia is forced to get a job at the local Woolworth's, and things settle down at home. Several months later, during which time he has been living with a woman named Wanda, Delia takes Eddie back, despite the girls' pleading with her not to do so. The beatings resume.

Marci and Corin disown Eddie as their father, refusing to call him "Daddy" or "Father." With help from a neighbor, they tie him up and threaten him with a switchblade. Marci gets a book on karate from the local library, intending to learn some moves to use on Eddie. He resumes his relationship with Wanda; Delia will accept a lot of things, but she will not tolerate Eddie even looking at another woman. Marci borrows a camera from her Uncle Tommy, and sits across the street from a local bar, intending to get pictures of Eddie and Wanda together. Unintentionally, the pictures get into Delia's hands, and then comes the "final" confrontation with Eddie.

This book is not just about domestic violence. Marci nearly gets thrown out of catechism class, for asking too many questions that eleven-year-olds shouldn't ask. Her teacher, Miss Beauchamp, insists on speaking with a French accent, even though she is from Wisconsin. One day, at church, she sees Uncle Tommy and Father Chacon, the parish priest, come out of the same door in the confessional.

In a way, this book is not pleasant reading, but it is very good reading. The author does a fine job at "doing" a pre-teen Latina. This book could easily take place in any part of America. All in all, it's very much worth reading.

Exposing dysfunctional parenting.......2005-02-04

What makes Carla Trujillo's book so compelling is her portrayal of the family dynamics. Although the narrator, Marci, is only 11 years old, she makes profound observations about what holds her parents' marriage together in spite of her father's brutality and hence what prevents her mother from intervening to protect the children. Trujillo balances the horror of the father's cruelty with a lot of humor and great tenderness between the two sisters. She also reveals the roles of extended family members in the continuation of her family's troubles; some relatives attempt to shield the children, while others are unwittingly complicit in their suffering. It's a heartbreaking story overall, but Trujillo has such talent as a writer because it isn't a depressing read, and it doesn't leave you frustrated. On the contrary, the ending of the book finds the brutalized sisters empowered and on the road to recovery. If more people could read this book, perhaps this unfortunate pattern of so many women's co-dependent "love" leaving their children open to paternal abuse and permanent scars would be broken. Only by writers having the courage to explore family dynamics with the kind of honesty Trujillo does and readers openly discussing this widespread problem will things start to change within families. This is a good start & a great read.

Loved this book.......2003-08-27

What Night Brings is a wonderfully readable coming of age story written with the perspective of a young teen. Marci Cruz's thought process really reflects her age and circumstances, unlike some novels written in that voice with adult thoughts coming from a child protagonist. It captured my heart from the first paragraph, and I read it straight through in only a few days. Was glad to find it on the public library's new books shelf.

Through.......2003-04-22

Winner of the Mármol Prize, Trujillo's impressive debut tells the story of Marci Cruz in the late 1960s. She prays daily to become a boy because then she can win the girl of her dreams. And she also prays for God to make her alcoholic father go away. Some of the passages seem to gloss over what Marci has to deal with, but Trujillo's strength as a storyteller compels the reader forward because we want Marci to succeed. In some ways, she is all of us, where we might not fit into the world exactly, but we're trying to find out where we belong. Bringing to mind such books as Dorothy Allison's "Bastard out of Carolina", "What Night Brings" is a heartwarming tale of a young girl at odds with her world (her family, her Church) who is on a quest for wholeness.

Through.......2003-04-22

Night Light: Bring-It-All-Together Book (Get Ready, Get Set, Read!/Set 4)

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Night Light: Bring-It-All-Together Book (Get Ready, Get Set, Read!/Set 4)
Gina Erickson M.A. , and Kelli C. Foster Ph.D.
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0812093356

Book Description

This review book brings together the long vowel sounds taught in SET 4, which feature the word families: oon, une, een, ean, ight, ite, oat, ale, and ail.

Hanukkah in Eight Nights: Bring the Past to Light

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Hanukkah: What Historians Know and other interesting things
great antidote to dumbing down of hanukkah

Hanukkah in Eight Nights: Bring the Past to Light

Manufacturer: Singersiddur
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Celebrate a family Hanukkah with dramatic readings about the feats of the Maccabees. In addition to the candle lighting blessings, Hanukkah songs, recipes and dreidel game rules, this book incudes excerpts from ancient sources and vivid read-aloud stories by Moshe Pearlman for each night that will bring the riveting events of 164 B.C.E. to life. Good for school age children through adults.

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Hanukkah: What Historians Know and other interesting things.......2006-06-20

This accessible and informative book is a welcome addition to my bookshelf. I used it last year with friends and family and the history section made everyone sit up and pay attention. The activities and songs were great. We had a very special Hanukkah.

great antidote to dumbing down of hanukkah .......2006-01-02

This book provides all you need to put together a meaningful Hanukkah holiday celebration. It is filled with recipes, thirteen pages of songs, history and readings. The compilation means you won't need several different books. This one has great dramatic readings for middle and high school age people, which are also just the right length to hold the attention of everyone. The book has a lot of substance packed into it's small size.

Bed Manners and Better Bed Manners, How to Bring sunshine Into Your Nights Omnibus Edition

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Bed Manners and Better Bed Manners, How to Bring sunshine Into Your Nights Omnibus Edition
Dr. Ralph and Anne Balliol Hopton
Manufacturer: Arden Book Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
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Gifts for the Goddess on a Hot Summer's Night: 66 Ways to Bring Your Children and Yourself Closer to Nature and Spirit (Gifts for the Goddess #1)

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Disappointed
Cute, but I don't believe in this witchcraft stuff
Easy to read, with both tried and true and original ideas
"Hot Summer's Night " not so hot.
For Pagan Parents and Non-Parents alike

Gifts for the Goddess on a Hot Summer's Night: 66 Ways to Bring Your Children and Yourself Closer to Nature and Spirit (Gifts for the Goddess #1)
Lorna Tedder , and Shannon Bailey
Manufacturer: Spilled Candy Publication
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Get close to Nature and Spirit this Summer!

If you're a follower of the Old Ways, try a few new ideas in the areas of Home and Hearth, Health and Beauty, Sharing with Friends, Pagan Children, and Sky and Garden. Try these fun, soul-affirming ways to give to the Goddess and get back threefold!

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Disappointed.......2007-05-02

I was very disappointed in this product. I actually got it from the library before considering buying it and it is nothing more than a glorified pamphlet full of common and commonsense information that has little to do with the craft. I expected much more from these talented authors.

Cute, but I don't believe in this witchcraft stuff.......2001-08-09

The ideas are cute but I didn't realize this was a book for witches. I'm merely a nature lover. Okay I did think that the ideas were good but the authors need to learn to spell magic and magical. Since when do these words have k's in them???

Easy to read, with both tried and true and original ideas.......2001-08-09

I've been collecting craft ideas related to my Wiccan spirituality for a long time, about 10 or 15 years. Some of the ideas in this book are similar to ones I have read before: dream pillows, bird food, etc. I was truly delighted by all the original ideas and seeing how another pagan mom applied them. It's not a book of strictly child-crafts. I'd say about 1/3 to 1/2 can be used for kids. The ideas I liked best for kids were the birthday cakes, jeweled curtains, and bird bath. I have incorporated at least half of the ideas into my every day life already and will use more next summer. Another unique thing about this book is that the authors incorporate funny and sad events from their lives and how they used them in their spirituality. Also, the book is written simply, without a lot of Ph.D. talk. It's like the authors are just talking to you, telling you how they do things. I guess some people might think that's poor editing or poorly written but I think it's great to find an author who doesn't talk down to the common person.

"Hot Summer's Night " not so hot........2001-08-02

As a practicing Pagan, a grandmother, and an educator I am always looking for new activities to do with little ones which will help them appreciate Mother Earth and all her glories.

I was VERY disappointed in this book. It is poorly written, poorly edited and full of misspellings and typos. That would have been forgivable if the ideas it contained had been original, but they were also disappointingly common (blowing bubbles, making dream pillows, a recipe for bird food etc.)

The reader would be better off purchasing "Celebrating the Great Mother" by Cait Johnson and Maura D. Shaw or "Circle Round" by Starhawk, Diane Baker and Anne Hill. In fact, the "Little Hands Nature Book" by Nancy Fusco Castaldo promotes more spirituality than one will find here.

For Pagan Parents and Non-Parents alike.......2000-12-07

Get close to Nature and Spirit this summer! If you're a follower of the Old Ways, try a few new ideas in the areas of Home and Hearth, Health and Beauty, Sharing with Friends, Pagan Children, and Sky and Garden. Try these fun, soul-affirming ways to give to the Goddess and get back threefold: Wishing Well Bird Bath, Jeweled Curtains, Braided Circle Bread Recipe, Wonder Woman Circles, Four-Element Birthday Cakes, Recipes for Bird Food, Special Needs Candleholders, Solstice Tea, Furniture with a Touch of Spirit, Meditative Baths, Herbal Hair Rinses, Eclectic Dishes, Fairies of Light, Waking Up Exercises for your ears, and 52 more ideas! (Many of these ideas are good year-round, so you don't have to wait for next summer!)

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BRING ON THE NIGHT
Fly by night excitement

Bring on the Night
Jay Davis
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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Binding: Paperback

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BRING ON THE NIGHT.......2002-07-11

"Bring On the Night" is a scary, fun read of a Chicago haunted by a pair of mysterious predators: one, a madman with a sickle and a tortured past; the other, a bloodthirsty vampire. In the end, it's up to an unconventional cop and a beautiful psychic to bring an end to the vampire's reign of terror. Written in an energetic, friendly style, "Bring on the Night" mixes hard-boiled attitude with monster madness to create one of the best vampire novels since "'Salem's Lot."

Fly by night excitement.......2000-04-05

As exciting as "Sins of the Flesh", I couldn't put it down for a moment. These are truely two talented Writers! The story was excellent!

Bring on the Night : Stallion Pass: Texas Knights (Silhouette Intimate Moments No. 1298) (Intimate Moments)

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Bring on the Night : Stallion Pass: Texas Knights (Silhouette Intimate Moments No. 1298) (Intimate Moments)
Sara Orwig
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To Meet the Night in Ways That Bring the Dawn

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To Meet the Night in Ways That Bring the Dawn
Ross L. Mooney
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Casino Night: All You Need to Bring the Tables Home

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Casino Night: All You Need to Bring the Tables Home
McNeely
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"Bring the glamour of the casino into the comfort of your home. Casino Night is complete with chips, cards, a gaming mat, dice, and instructions for hosting and playing five different games. Players can choose from Blackjack, Craps, Baccarat, Seven-Card Stud Poker, or Texas Hold'em. Place your bets!Includes: 135 chips in four different colors Standard deck of cards A reversible gaming mat printed for Craps and Baccarat 2 dice 56-page illustrated guide with tips, lingo, and rules for five popular casino games"

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