Formerly a URJ Press title. Why did generations of people grow up thinking that Jews really had horns? Did Eve really eat an apple, and if not, why does everyone think she did? Did Noah s ark really exist? Did Moses really write the Torah? This fascinating book explores these and many other assumptions about Jews and Judaism. Rabbi Sonsino uses history, archeology, and other scholarship to debunk familiar myths, showing how and why they developed over time. This book is for everyone who wants to know more about Judaism and get the real story behind the myth.

The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

Literature & Fiction

Ray, Janisse

Dramas & Plays

Chelsea Green Publishing

Help students increase their connection to Jewish knowledge and values through journal writing exercises. Sections on Torah Israel family customs Jewish heroes and heroines Tikkun Olam and more pose thought-provoking questions and provide journaling tips and ideas. A "Nudge Bar" on each page sparks creativity.

Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home

Business & Money

CLARK, Susan

Teachout, Woden

Management & Leadership

Young children learn the names and sounds of the 22 letters of the alef bet in this entertaining and exciting set of twenty-four 4-page folders. Presented in the order of the alef bet, each folder introduces one letter and includes: A key Hebrew word--with an accompanying English explanation--to teach the new letter Inventive activities to reinforce the shape and sound of each letter Additional Hebrew vocabulary words beginning with the new letter Playful exercises to engage the child's artistic and creative interests "In School or At Home"--an activity to be used in the classroom or sent home to encourage family participationClever riddles to entertain young audiencesAs they learn the letters of the alef bet, students develop a basic Jewish vocabulary. Bayit teaches bet, shofar teaches shin. Important cultural concepts are also explained. What is kept inside the aron kodesh? What are ritual objects we use to make havdalah?Create an engaging classroom activity as children complete each folder. Then send it home to show parents what's going on in school. Each set includes a review folder and a family education folder, featuring a letter to parents, learning games, and alef bet playing cards. Children will enjoy marking their progress on the alef bet chart and using the Hebrew picture dictionary to reinforce letter recognition. By the time students receive the beautiful certificate of completion, they will have had a delightful time learning the alef bet. Includes an Alef Bet Treasure Hunt.

Toda la verdad sobre el COVID-19: La historia detrás del gran reinicio, los pasaportes de vacunación y la nueva normalidad (Spanish Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Cummins, Ronnie

Mercola, Doctor Joseph

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Explore core Jewish values through stories, personality quizzes, and music videos. The Living Jewish Values series introduces students to sixteen of the most important and sustaining values of our tradition using a workbook/journal format that invites student reflection. The series is designed to be used in four units over two years. Appropriate for grades 4, 5, or 6, each four-value unit is available separately to allow flexibility to fit into your program. VOLUME 3: Values: Judging Favorably (Dan L chaf Zechut), Friendship (Reyut), The Power of Speech (Koach Hadibur), and Courage (Ometz Lev). Essential Questions: How can I be a good friend? How is gossip dangerous? What is peer pressure?

Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment

Seneff, Stephanie

Economics

Karl Schwenke, a transplanted urbanite, tells stories, sometimes uproariously funny, sometimes sad, about his encounters with pigs, neighbors and newcomers in a small country town. The author has a sharp ear for dialogue, for the human qualities of pigs and the piglike qualities of humans. Schwenke's finely honed writing makes the pleasures and heartaches of rural life particularly vivid.

In a Pig's Eye

Schwenke, Karl

United States

The author shares his memories of growing up in northern Vermont, and describes hunters, loggers, bootleggers, farmers, and other workers during the 1920s and 1930s

Goodbye Highland Yankee: Stories of a North Country Boyhood

Scott E. Hastings Jr.

Biographies & Memoirs

The Vermont Papers proposes a radical change in government. The authors are passionate advocates of such basic American values as self-reliance, tolerance, community aid, diversity, and liberty. Their subject is the plight of democracy in America. They argue that Vermont can show the rest of the nation how to govern itself democratically in the next century. Bypassed by the industrial revolution, Vermont is poised to leap into the 21st century. With its tradition of strong, local town government buttressed by the growth of information technology, Vermont is ready to make a breakthrough toward a postmodern, human-scale democracy. Bryan and McClaughry propose a system of government through bio-regionally based shires that will become new and vital little republics. Power will devolve from the state to the shires, with each shire small enough to be known, governed, and loved by each one of its citizens. The state's responsibilities will focus, instead, on such issues as air and water pollution, civil rights and liberties, and relations with other states and nations. The authors give detailed, specific recommendations, and show clearly how the new democracy will work.

The Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale

Politics & Social Sciences

Bryan, Frank

McClaughry, John

Politics & Government

Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen's testimonial to their life together and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice, and peace. In 1932, after deciding it would be better to be poor in the country than in the city, Helen and Scott moved from New York Ciy to Vermont. Here they created their legendary homestead which they described in Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World, a book that has sold 250,000 copies and inspired thousands of young people to move back to the land. The Nearings moved to Maine in 1953, where they continued their hard physical work as homesteaders and their intense intellectual work promoting social justice. Thirty years later, as Scott approached his 100th birthday, he decided it was time to prepare for his death. He stopped eating, and six weeks later Helen held him and said goodbye. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is a vivid self-portrait of an independent, committed and gifted woman. It is also an eloquent statement of what it means to grow old and to face death quietly, peacefully, and in control. At 88, Helen seems content to be nearing the end of her good life. As she puts it, "To have partaken of and to have given love is the greatest of life's rewards. There seems never an end to the loving that goes on forever and ever. Loving and leaving are part of living." Helen's death in 1995 at the age of 92 marks the end of an era. Yet as Helen writes in her remarkable memoir, "When one door closes, another opens." As we search for a new understanding of the relationships between death and life, this book provides profound insights into the question of how we age and die.

Loving and Leaving the Good Life (Good Life Series)

Nearing, Helen

Regional U.S.

Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living (8th)

Schaeffer,John and The Real Goods Staff

Solar Gardening shows how to increase efforts of the sun during the coldest months of the year and how to protect tender plants from the intensity of the scorching sun during the hottest months through the use of solar "mini-greenhouses." The book includes instructions for building a variety of solar appliances plus descriptions of more than 90 different crops, with charts showing when to plant and harvest each. The result is a year-round harvest even from a small garden. In Solar Gardening the Poissons show you how to: <ul>
<li>Dramatically increase the annual square-foot yield of your garden.</li> <li>Extend the growing and harvest season for nearly every kind of vegetable.</li> <li>Select crops that will thrive in the coldest and hottest months of the year, without artificial heating or cooling systems.</li> <li>Build solar appliances for your own garden.</li> </ul>
Armed with nothing but this book and a few simple tools, even novice gardeners can quickly learn to extend their growing season and increase their yields, without increasing the size of their garden plot.

Solar Gardening: Growing Vegetables Year-Round the American Intensive Way (The Real Goods Independent Living Books)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Poisson, Leandre

Poisson, Gretchen Vogel

Gardening & Landscape Design

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