It includes contributions from 35 Torah scholars, friends, and “heroes who contribute beautiful and inspiring pieces of Torah while facing daily speech, language, and disability struggles.”
While she is the author of novel, Woman of Valor, which was also published in English to positive reviews, and several other books that came out in Israel, she is also the wife of Yair Lapid
The two parts of the story run side by side down the 262 pages of the book, part one on the evenly numbered pages; part two on the odd.
Sarah Goldstein’s fourth book, Now You Are Here: Navigating Nursing Home Care for a Loved One, was specifically written for those caring for a loved one residing in a nursing home.
No wonder the authors refer to “a divided nation” in their title, and one might wonder how a nation so internally fragmented can possibly hold together.
The images are of people from a variety of professions, national origins, and streams within Judaism.
It is amazing how Ouzan included so many chaplains who fostered respect for Judaism in this great volume.
The troubling story of Michael Laudor leaves many unanswered questions, including the central one: How do we respect the autonomy and decision-making of a person with serious mental illness?
Leslie Turnberg’s biography An Unreasonable Man: Pinchas Rutenberg, the Russian Revolutionary Who Electrified Palestine is probably the first book in English about this intensely private man.
Each story is a slice of life of an Israeli woman whose reality was altered by immigration to the United States.
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