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Aviva vs. the Dybbuk [sound recording] / by Lowe, Mari,author.(CARDINAL)892344; Horowitz, Leah(Leah Lyle),narrator.;

Narrated by Leah Horowitz.A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who now can't always get out of bed in the morning. As tensions escalate in the Jewish community of Beacon with incidents of vandalism and a swastika carved into new concrete poured near the synagogue, so does the tension grow between Aviva and Kayla and the girls at their school, and so do the actions of the dybbuk grow worse.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Children's audiobooks.; Social problem fiction.; Grief; Jewish girls; Girls; Dybbuk; Ultra-Orthodox Jews; Jewish girls; Jewish families; Friendship; Schools; Fathers; Dybbuk; Fantasy.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Brazen : my unorthodox journey from long sleeves to lingerie / by Haart, Julia,1971-author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-404)."A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World Group. Ever since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart's life-what she wore, what she ate, what she thought-was controlled by the dictates of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she was married off to a man she barely knew. For the next twenty-three years, he would rule her life. Eventually, when Haart's younger daughter, Miriam, started to question why she wasn't allowed to sing, run, or ride a bike, Haart reached a breaking point. She knew that if she didn't find a way to leave, her daughters would be forced into the same unending servitude that had imprisoned her. So Haart created a double life. In the ultra-Orthodox world, clothing has one purpose-to cover the body, head to toe-and giving any thought to one's appearance beyond that is considered sinful, an affront to God. But when no one was looking, Haart would pore over fashion magazines and sketch designs for the clothes she dreamed about wearing in the world beyond her Orthodox suburb. She started clandestinely selling life insurance in order to save her "freedom" money. At the age of forty-two, she finally mustered the courage to flee the fundamentalist life that was strangling her soul. Within a week of her escape, Haart founded a shoe brand, and within nine months, she was at Paris Fashion Week. Just a few years later, she was named creative director of La Perla, where she met the man who would become her husband, Silvio Scaglia. Soon she would become co-owner and CEO of Elite World Group, and one of the most powerful people in the fashion industry. Along the way, her four children-Batsheva, Shlomo, Miriam, and Aron-have not only accepted but embraced her transformation. Propulsive and unforgettable, Haart's story is the journey from a world of no to a world of yes, and an inspiration for women everywhere to find their freedom, their purpose, and their voice"--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Haart, Julia, 1971-; Haart, Julia, 1971-; Ex-Orthodox Jews; Fashion designers; Ultra-Orthodox Jews; Women fashion designers; Women's rights;

Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 16

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This is not a love story : a memoir / by Brown, Judy(Judy Braun),author.(CARDINAL)621208;

The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching, and the faith and lore that sustained her people for generations. But her carefully constructed world begins to crumble when her "crazy" brother Nachum returns home after a year in Israel living with relatives. Though supposedly "cured," he is still prone to retreating into his own mind or erupting in wordless rages. The adults' inability to make him better - or even to give his affliction a name - forces Judy to ask larger questions: If God could perform miracles for her sainted ancestors, why can't He cure Nachum? And what of the other stories her family treasured?

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Brown, Judy (Judy Braun); Brown, Judy (Judy Braun); Ultra-Orthodox Jews; Jews; Hasidim; Hasidism; Hasidim; Autistic people.;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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The sisters Weiss / by Ragen, Naomi,1949-author.(CARDINAL)769990;

In 1950's Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community's unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose's world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. Defiantly, she begins to live a secret life that shocks her family when it is discovered. Out of guilt and an overwhelming desire to be reconciled with those she loves, she finally bows to her parents' demands that she agree to an arranged marriage. But the night before her wedding, she commits an act of defiance so unforgivable it will exile her forever from her innocent young sister, her family, and all she has ever known. Forty years later, pious Pearl's sheltered young daughter Rivka suddenly discovers the truth about the family outcast, her Aunt Rose, now a successful photographer. Inspired, but nab.ve and reckless, she sets off on a dangerous adventure that will stir up the ghosts of the past and alter the future in unimaginable ways for all involved.

Subjects: Jewish fiction.; Historical fiction.; Romance fiction.; Sisters; Ultra-Orthodox Jews; Family secrets;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The pious ones : the world of Hasidim and their battles with America / by Berger, Joseph,1945-author.(CARDINAL)383985;

Includes bibliographical references."As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to record proportions after near-extinction during the Holocaust, award-winning New York Times journalist and author Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles--and the social and political implications of their expanding presence in America"--

Subjects: Jews; Hasidim; Hasidim;

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The Israelis : ordinary people in an extraordinary land / by Rosenthal, Donna,1950-(CARDINAL)636754;

Includes bibliographical references (page 453.463) and index.Introduction: Colliding worlds -- I. Becoming Israeli. One of the world's most volatile neighborhoods ; Dating and mating Israeli-style ; A people's army ; Swords into stock shares -- II. One nation, many tribes. The Ashkenazim: Israel's "WASPS" ; The Mizrahim: the other Israelis ; The Russians: the new exodus ; Out of Africa: Ethiopian Israelis in the Promised Land -- III. Widening fault lines between Jews and Jews. The Haredim: Jewish-Jewish-Jewish ; The Orthodox: this land is your land? This land is my land! ; The non-Orthodox: war of the cheeseburgers -- IV. Schizophrenia: non-Jews in a Jewish state. The Muslims: Abraham's other children ; The Bedouin: tribes, tents and satellite dishes ; The Druze: between modernity and tradition ; The Christians: uneasy in the land of Jesus -- V. The sexual revolution. Marriage, polygamy, adultery, and divorce Israeli-style ; Oy! Gay? ; Hookers and hash in the Holy Land -- Epilogue: Shalom/Salam.Israel is smaller than New Jersey, with 0.11% of the world's population, yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different one on al-Jazeera. But how does Israel look to Israelis? The answers are varied, and they have been brought together here in one of the most original books about Israel in decades. From battlefields to bedrooms to boardrooms, discover the colliding worlds in which an astounding mix of 7.2 million devoutly traditional and radically modern people live. You'll meet Arab Jews who fled Islamic countries, dreadlock-wearing Ethiopian immigrants who sing reggae in Hebrew, Christians in Nazareth who publish an Arabic-style Cosmo, young Israeli Muslims who know more about Judaism than most Jews of the Diaspora, ultra-Orthodox Jews on "modesty patrols," and more. Interweaving hundreds of personal stories with intriguing new research, The Israelis is lively, irreverent, and always fascinating.--From publisher description.

Subjects: National characteristics, Israeli.; Orthodox Judaism;

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Off the derech : leaving Orthodox Judaism / by Cappell, Ezra,1971-editor.; Lang, Jessica,1973-editor.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Jessica Lang -- Part 1: Stories -- My father, myself / Naomi Seidman -- That long and winding road / Joshua Halberstam -- The law of return / Morris Dickstein -- Tuesdays with Facebook / Shulem Deen -- Black hat, combat hat, thinking cap: A mostly philosophical memoir / Mark Zelcer -- How I lost my innocence / Frieda Vizel -- The trickster bride / Leah Vincent -- A stranger among familiar faces: Navigating complicated familial relationships when leaving the Hasidic community / Frimet Goldberger -- Uncovered: An interview with Leah Lax / Jessica Lang and Ezra Cappell -- Excerpts from Uncovered: How I left Hasidic life and finally came home / Leah Lax -- Part II: Analysis -- Between us: Intimacy in women's off the Derech memoirs / Jessica Lang -- The embodied process of Haredi defection / Lynn Davidman -- The right to education: Israeli OTD people and their struggle for a fair chance / Moshe Shenfeld -- In term of OTD / Shira Schwartz -- Notes from the field: Footsteps' evolution and approach to supporting individuals leaving the ultra-orthodox community / Rachel Berger, Tsivia Finman, and Lani Santo -- Educational attainments among disaffiliates from ultra-orthodoxy / Miriam R. Moster -- Representation, recognition and institutionalization of a new community: Reflection on the mediatization of former ultra-orthodox Jews / Jessida Roda -- The social practices and linguistic spaces of Shababniks in Brooklyn / Gabi Abramac -- The OTD struggle: Telling a more compelling story / Naftuli Moster -- Off the Derech and into the wild: Navigating Jewish American identity / Ezra Cappell.In recent years, many formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews have documented leaving their communities in published stories, films, and memoirs. This movement is often identified as ?off the derech? (OTD), or off the path, with the idea that the ?path? is paved by Jewish law, rituals, and practices found within their birth communities. This volume tells the powerful stories of people abandoning their religious communities and embarking on uncertain journeys toward new lives and identities within mainstream society. Off the Derech is divided into two parts: stories and analysis. The first includes original selections from contemporary American and global authors writing about their OTD experiences. The second features chapters by scholars representing such diverse fields as literature, history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, religion, and gender studies. The interdisciplinary lenses provide a range of methodologies by which readers can better understand this significant phenomenon within contemporary Jewish society.

Subjects: Ex-Orthodox Jews.; Judaism and secularism.; Judaism and culture.; Jewish way of life.; Jewish fundamentalism.; Judaism and social problems.; Freedom of speech;

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Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman / by Stein, Abby,1991-author.(CARDINAL)826645;

Introduction: birth of an empire -- Birth of a child -- A dollhouse -- A haircut -- According to His will -- On the playground -- At the edge of manhood -- Seeing demons -- Signs and signals -- Holy obligations -- Teachings of our fathers -- A new school -- Heavenly bodies -- Welcome to the Catskill Mountains -- Matchmaking -- Tingling feelings -- Audience with the rebbe -- High on mysticism -- Engaged -- Graphic studies -- A wedding in a blizzard -- Another child -- The done thing -- Wireless connections."Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a rabbinical dynastic family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Stein felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. Without access to TV or the internet, and never taught English, she suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood into mainstream femininity--a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, and her way of life"--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Stein, Abby, 1991-; Jewish transgender people; Transgender women; Hasidim; Jewish transgender people.; Trans women.;

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Our separate ways : the struggle for the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance / by Allin, Dana H.,1958-author.(CARDINAL)821194; Simon, Steven,author.(CARDINAL)664803;

"The future of the relationship between Israel and America is deeply uncertain: the current political leadership of both countries is hostile to the other, there is no longer a sense of shared strategic focus, and demographic changes are forcing the countries further apart with every passing year. The Start-up Nation may be enjoying a tech boom, but it also has booming inequality, booming numbers of poor and underemployed people, and booming numbers of orthodox religious conservatives (half of all Israeli preschoolers are Arab or ultra-Orthodox). In America, the increasing numbers of Jews marrying outside the faith and the precipitous decline of the influence of Evangelical Christians has narrowed the base of people devoted to the land of Israel. In the face of tectonic shifts, the alliance between America and Israel is strained to the point of rupture. The situation is dangerous for both sides, and it comes at a dangerous time for the Middle East, which will be wracked by the aftereffects of the Arab uprisings and the growth of ISIS for a generation. And for America, the success of the "pivot to Asia" will be undermined by a departure from the Middle East that leaves Israel in the role of regional wrecking ball. Undermining the relationship between Israel and the US is the fact that it was never clearly defined. The ambiguity has been politically helpful, but now threatens the future: there is no treaty, no agreed set of obligations, no mutual dependence. So when things get sour there is nothing to fall back upon except historical memory. Simon and Allin are among the shrewdest analysts of and practitioners inside the world of US-Israeli diplomacy. They have written an urgent, revelatory book showing the emerging fault lines between two previously staunch allies and the tremendous perils of a schism. And, they offer ways in which even at this late, disgruntled, embittered stage, the two sides might yet find a way toward a common future"--publisher.

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Jewish noir : tales of crime and other dark deeds. by Wishnia, K. J. A.,editor.(CARDINAL)646115; Osman, Chantelle Aimée,editor.(CARDINAL)898171;

"Jewish Noir II is unique collection of twenty-three all-new stories (and one reprint) by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Gabriela Alemán, Doug Allyn, Rita Lakin, Rabbi Ilene Schneider, E.J. Wagner, and Kenneth Wishnia, with a foreword by MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block. The stories explore such issues as the perpetual challenge of confronting resurgent anti-Semitism in the US, the enduring legacy of regional warfare in the land of Israel since biblical times, how the "entitled" behavior of certain ultra-Orthodox communities can fuel anti-Semitic attitudes, Jewish support of the civil rights movement, greedy Jewish businessmen who reinforce negative ethnic stereotypes, the excesses of "golden ghetto" American Jews, the appeal of "tough" Israeli-Jewish soldiers and mercenaries, how real estate fortunes are made, and the consequences of political corruption that feed into an exploitive system, how obsession can lead "good" people to do "bad" things. The stories in this collection include many "teachable moments" about the history of prejudice, and the contradictions of ethnic identity and assimilation into American society."--

Subjects: Short stories.; Noir fiction, American.; Jewish fiction.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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