A study of divorce, as seen through the eyes of four-year-old Megan explains what it means to be a child of divorce and discusses parental manipulation and the feelings of children

Biblical Excavations Volume 2 First Fruits: A Thanksgiving Study First Fruits: A Thanksgiving Study excavates a simple instruction from Deuteronomy 26, illuminating the story within. Words studies, mini-research projects, and probing questions reveal parallels between the feasts of Passover and Thanksgiving. The story of the founders, the journey they made, the obstacles they had to overcome, and the vision that drove them were rooted in the Hebrew Biblical narratives of Exodus and Deuteronomy. In this mini First Fruits curriculum, we will take a deep dive into Deuteronomy 26:1-11 to excavate the story and see how it can enhance our modern-day Thanksgiving celebration. This short study includes four lessons that may be completed by a student within one week or within a small study group over the course of several weeks. It is also appropriate for families with a range of ages. Modeling the art of asking good questions, the discussion prompts provide opportunities for deep thought and examination of the text. All the activities are adaptable for groups and individuals. Additionally, the study of harvest times aligns the common calendar with the Biblical feasts and festivals within the Hebrew calendar. Although the focus is on the Thanksgiving holiday, the study content and focus is applicable year-round. My Book of Hebrew Letters The Hebrew alphabet is more than symbols to help one communicate with another. According to Proverbs 8:22 and 30, these letters formed the Heavenly Word of God known as Wisdom and became the architect of creation. My Book of Hebrew Letters includes a Hebrew Letters Coloring Book and Hebrew Letters Journal. There are twenty-two coloring book pages, one for each consonant in the Hebrew alphabet, and the letters have been simplified for young children. The coloring book may be used alone, or it may be used along with the YouTube video series The Hebrew Alphabet Show, produced by Biblical Excavations. Each episode introduces a new Hebrew letter with it character (how it is written), name and some memorable information – all presented at a child’s level and in a fun talk-show style format that even an adult may enjoy. The Hebrew Letters Journal contains twenty-two journaling pages, one for each letter in A Relationship with the Hebrew Alphabet video series. Each video introduces a new Hebrew letter with its character (how it is written), name, meaning, number, related words, a scripture, and sometimes a few extra notes. Students may want to watch the video twice, completing the worksheet while viewing the second time. They may need to pause and toggle back and forth to gather the needed information. Once completed, they will have a journal full of deep knowledge regarding Hebrew letters and their meanings. Please note that A Relationship with the Hebrew Alphabet was originally designed for the Your Sabbath Invitation Curriculum. Whether or not you have purchased the curriculum, the teachings from these resources are invaluable to help one master the Hebrew alphabet.

Gotz and Meyer, two noncommissioned SS officers, are entrusted with an assignment, "not a big one," but one that "requires efficiency." Their task is to transport five thousand women, children and elderly, one hundred at a time, from a concentration camp near Belgrade in a hermetically sealed truck, in which they are gassed. As Albahari's anonymous narrator, a teacher, obsessively pursues the truth of this systematic annihilation, he shares his findings with his students. Their school bus becomes that truck, and as the memory of Belgrade's lost Jewish souls is evoked, the students are bewildered. Their teacher, worn down as much by the task of making history come alive as by the toll his research has taken on him, is overwhelmed by the horror of his own imaginings. A harrowing, masterfully written story, full of compassion, irony, and lyricism.

The first full-length study of Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women to appear in fifty years, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays uses fresh insights into the Greek conception of gender and the Athenian ideology of civic identity to demonstrate at last the formal elegance and intellectual complexity of two works that are still dismissed as artistic failures within the poet's oeuvre.

To Joel, David and Rachel – Jewish children in post-war South Africa – bitter conflict, racial conflict and social upheaval are all they have ever known. Resolving never to repeat the mistakes of their parents, they seek a new code of behaviour – and one that will lead them all through their journeys of self-discovery.

The three Kosky children help their parents prepare for and celebrate the beginning of Passover.

From Library Journal Bloch gives us lines worth storing in the heart against nameless pain. Themes include giving birth, raising children, relationships that fail ("Whatever you gave me, I used it right away/ for breathing"), marriage that lasts ("Rosin of sunlight slides up and down/ a string of spiderweb,/bowing a high note"), and childhood ("If we were so happy/ why weren't we happy?"). Adding to the ongoing work of late 20th-century women telling their lives in honest detail, her voice is at its best when her own body is at risk ("There's a future loose in my body and I/ am its servant:/carrying wood, fetching water"). Surprisingly, the Russian Jewish inheritance articulate in the matrioshka doll poem points us more toward Bloch's human identity than toward any specific ethnic experience. The poems' elegant simplicity of diction make them very readable. Recommended for most contemporary poetry and women's studies collections.- Judy Hogan, Durham, N.C.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Publisher 6 x 9 trim. LC 92-9628

A fast-moving and sometimes very funny story of three loving sisters who have separate lives but live together in one house, each in her own apartment. The story is divided into three parts: Sara, Perri, and Lucy. Two of the sisters are beautiful, the third one is not. Into their lives comes Carlo, a handsome Italian male au pair, hired to help out with Sara's children.

"I Have Some Questions About God is a collection of twelve questions about God (and related issues) from children. Six wonderful rabbis, all parents, have written answers to these questions. Most of their answers are stories. Added are a series of targeted excecises that encourage children to reflect and share their experiences of God in the world. The end result is a collection of wonderful stories and hands-on experiences. With I Have Some Questions About God parents and children are invited to enter into conversations about God that are as easy as reading stories and then asking, 'Which of these answers is the closest to the way you believe?'"--

Boris Akunin has been hailed as Russia's answer to both Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his beloved Fandorin mystery series. After five years spent abroad building up a business as something of a private investigator, the handsome, stuttering Fandorin is back in Moscow--and in for a case that entangles him with the highest echelons of Romanov royalty. Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow with three of his children for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, who is fated to become the last Emperor of Russia. During an afternoon stroll in the park, Georgii's daughter Xenia is dragged away by bandits, only to be rescued by an elegant gentleman and his Japanese sidekick. The passing heroes introduce themselves as Erast Petrovich Fandorin and Masa, but panic ensues when the party realizes that four-year-old Mikhail has been snatched in the confusion. A ransom letter arrives from an international criminal demanding the handover of the Count Orlov, an enormous diamond on the royal scepter which is due to play a part in the coronation. Can the gentleman detective find Mikhail in time? The Coronation is a fantastically entertaining and deftly plotted take on the hostage novel, not to be missed.

Migrants, Border lands, and Social Justice: An Artist Journey brings together three experiences. They each share the underlying theme of people on the move: individuals and families uprooted from their homes. The decision to uproot, leave home varies from seasonal employment needs to long-term safety and security issues and a better future for the children. The sketches are amplified with text to tell their story as well as the humanitarian aid migrants receive from several non-profit organisations. Each section of Migrants, Border Lands and Social Justice contains the author's symbolic painted wood panels that conclude with 'Build Bridges Not Walls.'

Benjamin Cohen, a eleven-year old student from Chicago, received a Certificate of Recognition from Russian American Jews for Israel (RAJI) for the best literary work dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in summer 2011. The book, «Will I Ever See Another Butterfly? » is about the children imprisoned in the concentration camp Terezin. Two years ago, Ben saw the play «And A Child Shall Lead» at the Chicago Vittum Theater . It was about the child prisoners of the «model» Nazi concentration camp Terezin in Czechoslovakia. He was so moved by this performance that he decided to write a novel based on this historical event. On June 23, 2012, Ben gave a presentation on his book at Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, Il. More than 100 people attended this extraordinary event. Every child received a copy of the book. Ben dedicated his book to all the children who fell victim to Nazi persecution and never got a chance to live their lives.

" The Best Ayelet Waldman Quotation Book ever Published. Special Edition This book of Ayelet Waldman quotes contains only the rarest and most valuable quotations ever recorded about Ayelet Waldman, authored by a team of experienced researchers. Hundreds of hours have been spent in sourcing, editing and verifying only the best quotations about Ayelet Waldman for your reading pleasure, saving you time and expensive referencing costs. This book contains over 31 pages of quotations which are immaculately presented and formatted for premium consumption. Be inspired by these Ayelet Waldman quotes; this book is a niche classic which will have you coming back to enjoy time and time again. What's Inside: Contains only the best quotations on Ayelet Waldman Over 31 pages of premium content Beautifully formatted and edited for maximum enjoyment Makes for the perfect niche gift for you or someone special Enjoy such quotes such as: A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games. Ayelet Waldman Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him. Ayelet Waldman Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences. Ayelet Waldman As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. ... And much more! Click Add to Cart and Enjoy! "

A fresh account of the medieval mystic, traveling pilgrim, and pioneering memoirist Margery Kempe. This is a new account of the medieval mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had fourteen children, traveled all over Europe and recorded a series of unusual events and religious visions in her work The Book of Margery Kempe, which is often called the first autobiography in the English language. Anthony Bale charts Kempe's life and tells her story through the places, relationships, objects, and experiences that influenced her. Extensive quotations from Kempe's Book accompany generous illustrations, giving a fascinating insight into the life of a medieval woman. Margery Kempe is situated within the religious controversies of her time, and her religious visions and later years put in context. And lastly, Bale tells the extraordinary story of the rediscovery, in the 1930s, of the unique manuscript of her autobiography.

Angelica Balabanoff was one of the best-known & widely beloved figures of European socialism in the early 20th century. She left home at age 19 to study in Belgium & began a lifetime of travel & activism that was to center around the politics of the 2nd Internat'l & bring her into contact with a fascinating range of political figures, including Luxemburg, Zetkin, Trotsky, Lenin, Goldman, Berkman & Mussolini. During & after WWI, she was a major figure of the left wing of the Socialist movement & a member of the Zimmerwald Group. She returned to Russia after the Revolution, serving as a Comintern officer before becoming disillusioned by the authoritarianism of the Bolshevik regime. Born in Chernigov in the Ukraine, in 1878, the youngest of 16 children, 7 of whom had died before she was born, Angelica was raised to be the “crown of the family.” Her father was a landowner & businessman. She was educated at home by a series of governesses & tutors. From early youth, she was troubled by the privileges she enjoyed, reporting in her autobiography that she “cringed with shame” at the way the servants humiliated themselves before her & her parents. She attributed her own rebelliousness & commitment to the cause of social justice not to any influence of her Jewish heritage (unmentioned in her autobiography), but to these experiences at home & her sense of an “unbridgeable abyss” between herself & her “despotic” mother. She left home in 1897 to study at the Université Nouvelle in Brussels, an institution known for radicalism. There, she hoped to learn how to translate her passion for social justice into practical strategies for aiding the downtrodden. Thru the combination of classes & meetings at the socialist-sponsored People’s House, she met & was deeply influenced by Plekhanoff & a variety of other Russian & Italian emigrés, who befriended her & introduced her to many of the major figures of the 2nd Internat'l. After doing research in the British Museum library, she returned to Brussels, earning a doctorate in philosophy & literature from the Université. She then went to Leipzig, & on to Rome, where she studied with the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Labriola & began what was to be a lifelong relationship with the Italian & internat'l socialist movements. From '01 to '02, she worked with Italian immigrant workers in Switzerland, & organized among young women who'd been recruited by the Swiss to be a docile labor force. Altho hostile to bourgeois feminism, she was committed to addressing the needs of working-class women as well as men—-needs she believed would be best met thru socialist transformation. She was successful as a speaker & journalist. Elected to the executive committee of the Italian Socialist Party in Switzerland, she served as its official representative to congresses of the 2nd Internat'l in '07 & '10. Also during this period, she befriended a poor Italian emigré, Benito Mussolini, helping him to find work & introducing him to socialist clubs in which he became active. In '10, she left Switzerland for Italy, where she began her active involvement in Italian socialism. In ensuing years, she was elected to the party’s Central Committee; served as coeditor of the party organ, Avanti & increasingly came to support the more revolutionary antireformist wing of the Italian Socialist Party. Disillusioned by the failure of socialist internat'lism in '14, she helped to found & remained active thruout the war in the Zimmerwald movement, a socialist organization protesting imperialism & demanding immediate peace. Her fluency in many languages, combined with her strong commitment to internat'l socialism & her popularity as a public speaker, made her indispensable at socialist conferences & conventions. Altho she rejected Lenin’s call for socialist revolutions to end the war, she returned to Russia in '17 to help rally internat'l support. Despite reservations (shared with exiles Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman), she became secretary of the Communist Internat'l in '19, but was removed after about a year for opposing the manipulative tactics of Lenin & Zinoviev. Early in '21, she left Russia forever. In ensuing years, she suffered from a continuing slander campaign on the part of Lenin & his associates. After living in Vienna & Paris, she spent WWII in NYC, where she became friends with Norman Thomas & was a contributor to Socialist Review. Balabanoff dedicated herself to awakening the American population to the dangers of Italian fascism, publishing The Traitor: Benito Mussolini & His Conquest of Power, as well as her autobiography, My Life as a Rebel. At war's end, she returned to Italy, where she continued to be active in the Italian Socialist Party, dying in Rome on 11/25/65.

Towards the end of 1937, having just completed his South American Amazonas trilogy (The Land without Death), Doblin embarked on a new project much closer to home. As a military doctor in Alsace he had experienced firsthand the chaotic scenes in Haguenau and Strasbourg that followed the Kaiser's abdication and the Armistice. His skill at depicting historical events in vivid epic prose would now be applied to seminal events still within living memory, and still highly controversial. He and his family (now with three small children) left Alsace on 14 November 1918 with the hospital staff and patients, reaching Berlin several days later. In March 1919 he witnessed the savage repression of the uprising in Lichtenberg, the eastern Berlin district where he had settled; his sister Meta was killed by grenade shrapnel as she fetched milk for her children. His essay On Cannibalism reveals his anger at both the ineptitude of the insurgents and the callousness of the Social Democrat Minister of War, Noske. Citizens and Soldiers, the self-contained first volume of November 1918: A German Revolution, presents a vivid panorama of fictional and real individuals, scenes and events over a chaotic two weeks. It was published in Amsterdam and Stockholm in October 1939, shortly after Britain and France declared war on Germany. Unsurprisingly it had little chance to circulate. During his exile years in California (1940-45), Doblin completed the remaining parts of what became the longest of his nine epic novels. When in 1947 the question arose of publishing the entire work in Germany, the French Occupation Authority (in which Doblin was serving as Public Education Officer) vetoed Citizens & Soldiers because of sensitivities about the status of Alsace-Lorraine, main location of the novel's action. (This border region had been French territory since the 17th century; was annexed by Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War, and reverted to France at the end of the First World War. Apart from the war years 1940-45 it has since remained French.) November 1918 A German Revolution therefore appeared as three volumes successively in autumn 1948, spring 1949 and spring 1950. This truncated edition was the basis for an incomplete English translation in the 1980s. In Germany, a complete edition appeared only in 1978, two decades after Doblin's death, enabling for the first time a proper evaluation of what is now seen as one of Doblin's most impressive achievements. It is high time that English readers too should have access to the missing first volume: Citizens & Soldiers.

“Jewish stories,” writes Adam Biro, “resemble every people’s stories.” Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales—“There’s nothing,” writes Biro, “more revelatory of the Jewish being.” With Is It Good for the Jews? Biro offers a sequel to his acclaimed collection of stories Two Jews on a Train . Through twenty-nine tales—some new, some old, but all finely wrought and rich in humor—Biro spins stories of characters coping with the vicissitudes and reverses of daily life, while simultaneously painting a poignant portrait of a world of unassimilated Jewish life that has largely been lost to the years. From rabbis competing to see who is the most humble, to the father who uses suicide threats to pressure his children into visiting, to three men berated by the Almighty himself for playing poker, Biro populates his stories with memorable characters and absurd—yet familiar—situations, all related with a dry wit and spry prose style redolent of the long tradition of Jewish storytelling. A collection simultaneously of foibles and fables, adversity and affection, Is It Good for the Jews? reminds us that if in the beginning was the word, then we can surely be forgiven for expecting a punch line to follow one of these days.

Contains bibliographical descriptions of children's books published between 1682 and 1836.

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