| By: Rabbi Alter Eliyahu Friedman
Price: $28.95 $20.27 ISBN: 0826600999
Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson was born on 28 Tevet, 5640 (Monday, January 12, 1880) in Nikolayev, a city in western Russia, near Odessa. In addition to providing our generation with its preeminent, venerated leader, Rebbetzin Chana was in her own right a truly outstanding person, a "woman of valor"... Read More
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Price: $21.99 $19.79 ISBN: 9781568715025
Read this powerful, engaging story of a young girl struggling to
survive in Bergen-Belsen, and marvel at the bravery, the tenacity, and
God's ever-present guiding hand that have carried Fran Laufer through
the darkest periods of history, and of her life. Fran's triumphal
spirit, her sole... Read More
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| By: Pearl Benisch
Price: $27.99 $25.19 ISBN: 1583305769
This is the fascinating story of Sarah Schenirer, legendary founder of
the Bais Yaakov movement, as told through the eyes of one of her
students. In this beautifully written account, the author paints a
portrait of Frau Schenirer--inspiring, poignant, and breath-taking.
This book will impact... Read More
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| By: Chaya Hager
Price: $22.95 $16.07 ISBN: 1931681686
An incredible story by an
incredible person! Follow the author on a spiritual and physical
odyssey from her youth in beautiful Bogota, Colombia, thru marriage and
child-rearing in Madrid, Spain, to her ultimate destination of
Jerusalem the Holy City. A refreshing and uplifting read for Jews... Read More
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| By: Sarah Feldbrand
Price: $18.95 $13.29 ISBN: 0976694611
From our matriarch Sarah through Sarah Schenirer, our history is
replete with Jewish women who have left a stimulating legacy for our
generation. Some of these women are well known. Others are all but
forgotten. The details of their lives have been brought together in a
single volume - a... Read More
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| By: Elinor and Robert Slater
Price: $28.95 ISBN: 9780824603700
From the biblical Deborah to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, the individuals profiled in this volume are the authors'
considered choice for Jewish women who have had the greatest impact on
their respective fields.
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| By: Miriam P. Feinberg, Miriam Klein Shapiro
Price: $18.95 $13.27 ISBN: 1932687785
The lives of biblical Jewish leaders like Queen Esther
and the Prophetess Deborah as well as modern unique personalities
like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Prime Minister
Golda Meir are succinctly depicted.
At the end of each biography is a section that presents
ideas and... Read More
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| By: Sara Yoheved Rigler
Starting at: $14.69
Visitors streamed to them for guidance and blessings; leading Rabbonim
treated them with reverence. Living in a humble shack, poverty clung to
them like the dust of the surrounding Jezre'el Valley. Childless
themselves, they cared for cast-off children with profound handicaps.
By life's end,... Read More
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| By: Rabbi Yaakov Wehl
Starting at: $11.19
The story of Dr. Selma Wehl, heroine of medical practice and Torah living. Read More
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| By: Yitzhak Buxbaum
Price: $19.95 $18.99 ISBN: 9780787962715
What is a "holy woman," or a holy man for that matter? According to the
Jewish mystics, a holy person is someone who has not lost the holiness
that every baby is born with. A holy person is someone who fulfills it.
Stories about Jewish holy women have rarely been collected in such an
engaging... Read More
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| By: Tzippi Caton
Starting at: $13.99
"11th grade was so not a picnic."
For 16-year-old Tzipi Caton, eleventh grade meant tests, friends, homework, and play tryouts. Then, suddenly, it meant cancer.
"I was the girl who loved everything about being a girl... My days as a JAP seemed to be changing into my days as a JACP. A Jewish... Read More
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Price: $19.95 $13.96 ISBN: 9781600910845
Breindy H. is a severely disabled young woman, who must rely on others for her every need. Yet her mind is sharp, intelligent, witty and even humorous. In this book she describes the challenges of "life on wheels", her surprising social life, the personal growth of herself and others around... Read More
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| By: Ahuva Grey
Price: $22.99 $20.69 ISBN: 1568712766
Delores Gray was the descendant of sharecroppers, an African-American
minister and successful travel professional. But she chose to exchange
the American Dream for a dream of her own - to follow the courageous
path of the Biblical figure she most admired, the patriarch Abraham,
taking a new... Read More
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| By: Yael Unterman
Price: $40.00 $28.00 ISBN: 9789655240191
Professor Nehama Leibowitz (1905–1997), winner of the Israel Prize in Education, was a unique figure in the twentieth century Jewish landscape. She wrote a best-selling series, Studies in the Weekly Torah Portion, and provided a one-woman correspondence course in Bible, using her famous gilyonot... Read More
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| By: Thelma Alpert Blumberg
Price: $12.95 $9.07 ISBN: 1932687092
Thelma Blumberg has seen it all: children with elective mutism,
children physically abused, children on drugs, children who create
fear in others and children who live their lives in fear. The Baltimore
City School system is a good place to find a cross-section of such
children. The Jewish... Read More
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| By: Miriam Dansky
Starting at: $16.09
Dr. Judith Grunfeld was a colleague of the legendary Sarah Schenirer in
the Bais Yaakov movement and later the principal and spiritual mother
of hundreds of refugee children in the village of Shefford. Read More
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| By: Asenath Petrie
Price: $16.00 $11.20 ISBN: 965710839X
Asenath Petrie, a scientist and poet, saw her creative life following two disparate approaches.
During a journey to Jerusalem in 1973, she wrote:
After a life within
the straight-jacket of science
I find myself here
writing from the heart.
The habit of this soil
is to surprise.
Five... Read More
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| By: Esther Austern
Starting at: $11.19
Rabbanit Batya Karelitz, the sister of the Chazon Ish. Read More
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Price: $19.95 $13.97 ISBN: 0826601030
Women of Valor in our Time Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rarely in our times do we see such a unique combination of strength, courage and majesty as exhibited by these extraordinary woman. Facing... Read More
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| By: Avraham Schwartzbaum
Price: $24.99 $22.49 ISBN: 0873064593
Adopting a Chinese baby leads an American professor and his wife to the
discovery of their own Jewish heritage. An absorbing, true story to
read and re-read. . Read More
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