books about: shapira     books:       Israeli F-15 Eagle Units in Combat (Combat Aircraft) Shlomo Aloni Osprey Publishing, 2006 Diplomacy, politics and national trauma has dominated the frontline career of the Israeli F-15 to date. In the wake of the losses suffered in the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israeli government opted for technology in an effort to reassure a traumatised population that they would never suffer a surprise attack from the air again. Despite Israel Defense Force Air Force (IDF/AF) interceptors having performed extremely successfully during the ...             The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient ... Alan Levenson Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011 Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of Jewish life in Germany, Israel and America. Levenson argues that German Jews created a religious Bible, Israeli Jews a national Bible, and American ...             The Coolest Startups in America (Volume 1) Doreen Bloch Building Bloch Books, 2012 Curious about what the world’s next “Facebook” will be? This book is your must-read guide to the best, new companies. Not just any startups... these are The Coolest Startups in America! This book is a compilation of the best upstarts around our great nation, curated by startup expert & entrepreneur Doreen Bloch . It’s written for people who don’t read TechCrunch, expect “Mashable” to be a property of potatoes, or think ...             Sacred Fire Jason Aronson, Inc., 2002 Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury (1939-1942) consists of commentaries on each weekly Torah portion. It also includes a number of lengthy sermons delivered on the major Jewish Festivals as well as a few discourses alluding to people loved and lost. Because writing is not permitted on the Sabbath, these "words of Torah" were transcribed from memory, after the Sabbath or festival had ended. Although the pages of Sacred Fire are not ...             The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto Nehemia Polen Jason Aronson, Inc., 1999 The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto is a journey into the mind and spirit of a sublime hasidic master in his moments of joy and tranquillity, and later, in his time of personal and communal catastrophe. The reader takes a voyage into the rich and variegated world of twentieth-century Hasidism in Poland, a world destroyed by the Holocaust. This is a volume inspired by a deeply sensitive ...             Fresh & Easy Kosher Cooking: Ordinary Ingredients -Extraordinary Meals Leah Schapira Mesorah Publications Ltd., 2011 Over 170 easy-to-make recipes Full-color photos throughout Side dish pairing suggestions Tips for food preparation and storage Comprehnsive Index Picture it. You are holding a cookbook featuring amazingly easy recipes with tantalizing variations on familiar themes, using ingredients you already have on hand, with vivid imagery and easy-to-follow instructions, with simple suggestions for everyday dishes and holiday specials all wrapped up ...             A New Wrinkle iUniverse, 2009 "There are eighty million baby boomers on the horizon and most of them are caught up in the mayhem of being part of the “Sandwich Generation.” That is, they are caught between their parents and their children. Many of the boomers are now trying to figure out who they are in the scheme of things, how they will survive taking care of their parents and how they will continue to raise their children in good faith as a concerned parent. Most of ...             Conscious Community Jason Aronson, Inc., 1977 Within this volume, Reb Kalonymus teaches the art of self-observation with an emphasis on organizing and running a spiritual community. The reader is exhorted to be mindful of God at all times, with specific advice given for enhancing the experience of prayer. By addressing adults who are not withdrawn from worldly pursuits, Reb Kalonymus has provided a timeless guide to Jewish spirituality that will be an invaluable resource for today's seekers.             Growing Up Grizzly: The True Story of Baylee and Her Cubs Amy Shapira, Douglas H. Chadwick FalconGuides, 2011 Follow the true story of a young bear all alone in the Alaskan wilderness and the big-hearted grizzly family that embraced him as their own. Award-winning photographer Amy Shapira returned to the same remote cove in southeastern Alaska for six consecutive summers, capturing this incredible story as it unfolded. Through her breathtaking photographs and text from noted biologist and author Douglas H. Chadwick, the heartwarming tale of Baylee, ...             Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn Leonard A. Cole Indiana University Press, 2007 No country has experienced more acts of terrorism over a prolonged period than Israel. The frequency of attacks has propelled Israel toward innovative methods to address the threat. Indeed, treating so many victims of physical and psychological trauma has given rise to the new field of terror medicine. In a gripping narrative, terrorist expert Leonard A. Cole describes how different segments of Israeli society have coped with ...             A Student's Obligation Jason Aronson, Inc., 1995 The last hasidic rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto explores many facets of spiritual growth and character development.             A Blaze in the Darkening Gloom: The Life of Rav Meir Shapiro Yehoshua Boimel, Charles Wengrov, ... Feldheim Pub, 1994             Iran: From Regional Challenge to Global Threat Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2012 Iran's threat to world peace springs from its revolutionary Islamic ideology, its spreading influence in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, and its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. In addition, Israel faces the threat of Iran's proxy, Hizbullah, along its northern border, poised to strike Israeli cities with tens of thousands of missiles. In this volume, 11 military and diplomatic experts analyze key facets of ...             Pittsburgh Lives: Men and Women Who Shaped Our City Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Triumph Books, 2006 A city's identity is a composite of the lives lived in its confines. Its uniqueness is derived from the people who built the landmarks, who made the laws, who broke the rules, and who quietly made their way through life. Pittsburgh Lives celebrates the famous, the infamous, the noteworthy, the notorious, and the largely unrecognized men and women who sculpted Pittsburgh's character. Pittsburgh Lives remembers Archbishop Canevin, ...             Lithuanian Jewish Communities Nancy Schoenburg, Stuart Schoenburg Jason Aronson, Inc., 1996 Lithuanian Jewish Communities is a remarkable resource for students of Lithuanian Jewish history and for people descended from Lithuanian Jews. This volume lists, in alphabetical order, the major Jewish communities that existed in Lithuania before World War II. The name of each community is accompanied by information about it: when it was founded, the Jewish population in different years, shops and synagogues, and the names of citizens. An ...             Curing the Postmodern Blues: Reading Grant Morrison and Chris Weston's The Filth in the 21st Century Tom Shapira, Grant Morrison, ... Sequart Research & Literacy Organization, 2013 Published in 2002-2003, Grant Morrison and Chris Weston's THE FILTH is disgusting, deeply disturbing, and a comic-book masterpiece that inoculates readers against the problems of the postmodern condition. So says Tom Shapira, who also explores THE FILTH's relationship to Morrison's THE INVISIBLES, to the 1999 film THE MATRIX, and to the work of Alan Moore. The book also includes interviews with Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, and inker Gary ...             Investing in Innovation: Creating a Research and Innovation Policy That Works The MIT Press, 1999 Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry. The authors of this volume were invited by the Clinton administration to take a hard, nonpartisan look at how successful the new policies have been and to propose ways to make their programs more effective. The first summary report ...             The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israeli History Textbooks, 1948-2000 Elie Podeh Praeger, 2001 Israeli history textbooks in the past contained many biases, distortions, and omissions concerning the depiction of Arabs and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Today these misrepresentations are gradually being corrected. This study encourages the depiction of a balanced portrait in all textbooks. By reviewing curricula and textbooks used in the Israeli educational system since the establishment of Israel, the author assesses the ...             Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist: Berl Katznelson 1887-1944 Anita Shapira Cambridge University Press, 2008 For almost fifty years, the Zionist labour movement led the Jewish community in Palestine and later, in the State of Israel. Among the close-knit group of its founding fathers, Berl Katznelson was a unique figure. He was an intellectual, a politician, a man of letters, a statesman and the initiator of many of the social and economic institutions THAT shaped the face of the movement and in its wake, the character of the country as a whole. The ...             To Heal the Soul Jason Aronson, Inc., 1995 Within the vast and varied body of chasidic literature, rarely does one find a chasidic rebbe writing about himself. Those rebbes who did choose to put pen to paper tended to write expositions on biblical or rabbinical texts, and in many cases it was their students and followers who copied down their teachings. Thus the modern reader is left with works that tend to be impersonal, esoteric, and often complex. The journal of Rabbi Shapira is ...              search for books 1887-1944, 1948-2000, arab-israeli, biography, challenge, communities, community, conflict, conscious, creating, darkening, extraordinary, ingredients, innovation, investing, kalonymus, katznelson, lithuanian, morrison, obligation, ordinary, pittsburgh, postmodern, regional, research, socialist, startups, teachings, textbooks, transformed books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Fender Presents: Getting Started on Acoustic Guitar -- A Guide for ... home  impressum - about us