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Authors: Debra B. Darvick
ISBN-13: 9781571687296, ISBN-10: 1571687297
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Eakin Press
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Debra B. Darvick

Book Synopsis

In This Jewish Life: Stories of Discovery, Connection, and Joy fifty-two voices enable readers to experience a calendar s worth of Judaism s strengths community, healing, transformation of the human spirit, and the influence of the Divine. Within these pages are stories of joyous engagement and poignant loss. Readers will meet a teen who followed the path of Judaism after a chance encounter and men and women who turned to Judaism in their struggles with drug addiction and spousal abuse. Structured to mirror a complete year of Jewish life cycle events and holidays, this unique book showcases a bar mitzvah service in rural Illinois, a commitment ceremony in a California metropolis, a Soviet family s first Passover Seder, and much more.

This Jewish Life is a year in the life of a contemporary Jew told by a variety of individuals. Their stories will carry readers, Jew and non-Jew alike, through twelve months of Jewish living.

	Foreword	xi
	Preface	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	Birth	1
	And on the Eighth Day You Shall ...	4
	Oh, but She's Perfect!	6
	Cutting the Cord	12
	Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur	17
	Beginning the New Year at Sea	21
	Never Too Late	24
	So, Who Is a Jew?	29
	By God's Design	33
	Shabbat	39
	Making Ten	42
	"Of All Things, a Piano?"	44
	God? In a Parking Lot?	48
	Shalom Aleichem	51
	On the Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates	56
	And with Her the Angels of Peace and of Rest	60
	Should War Beset Me, Still Would I Be Confident	65
	Sukkot and Simchat Torah	71
	The Time of Our Joy	75
	It Is a Tree of Life	79
	We Are Your Ancestors; You Are Our Children	82
	Mitzvot	87
	If the Mitzvah Fits	90
	Chosen Schmosen	94
	Addiction's Gift	97
	Hugs from Home	103
	Chanukah	107
	Protestant B, Not	110
	Tu B'Shevat	115
	A Tree Grows in the Vatican	117
	Bar and Bat Mitzvah	123
	Standing up to the Fires of Hate	126
	Survival on the Back Forty	130
	Out of Crisis	134
	From Generation to Generation	140
	Beyond Music	143
	Bat Mitzvah Symphony	145
	And Miriam Led the Women	149
	Purim	155
	Making the World Safe for Pastry	158
	Passover	161
	Out of Bondage	164
	Marriage and Divorce	169
	The Eighteenth Ketubah	172
	Two Weddings and a Chuppah	177
	My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His	182
	Living Waters	186
	Yom HaShoah and Yom HaAtzma'ut	191
	Ring of Fire	194
	"I Kiss the Imprints of Your Fingers"	199
	Standing at Attention	205
	A Cohen by Any Other Name	209
	Getting Fit	211
	Building a Relationship Stone by Stone	214
	Mother Tongue	218
	Shavuot	221
	Will the Real Anti-Semites Please Stand Up?	224
	Single, and Together at Last	227
	My Nana Is Jewish	231
	A Child Chooses Jewish Life	236
	I Belong Here	238
	Tishah B'Av	245
	On the Knife-Edge of History	247
	Death	251
	How Goodly Are Thy Tents, O Jacob!	253
	Beyond Time and Death	256
	She Is Pure	258
	Glossary	263
	Bibliography	267
	Notes on Interviewees	269
	About Debra B. Darvick	279
	About Flora Rosefsky	281

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