![]() ![]() from Temple University, in 1974 she was the first woman ordained from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Sasso, as spiritual leader of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck. From 1977-2013 she served, along with her husband Rabbi Dennis C. Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso is the director of the Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts Initiative at IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute. In this engaging book, Rabbi Sasso explores how midrash originated, how it is still used today, and offers new translations and interpretations of more than twenty essential midrash texts. They felt free to read back into old stories what happened in future eras, and to see in the early stories of Genesis a foreshadowing of future events." They deemed it their reponsibility to discover connections and harmony where on the surface none appeared to exist. ![]() "The rabbis believed that nothing in the Bible, not the choice of words or their spellings, not the order of events or the relationship of one text to another, was haphazard or inconsequential. ![]() This understanding of how the Bible mystically relates to all of life is the fertile ground from which midrash emerged. ![]() The meaning of a text was more complicated than simply reading it. The Rabbis of old believed that the Torah was divinely revealed and therefore contained eternal, perfect truths and hidden meaning that required elucidation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Review: Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth is the story of a teenage girl struggling to fulfill her dreams, despite living in a perilous, tightly constricted, post-apocalyptic society. I think it has the potential to be a big hit. It's due out on Tuesday, so dystopia, zombie, and romance fans can consider this review your advance warning to set aside some time to read this book next week. ![]() I've seen other positive reviews since then (listed below), and I was thrilled when a copy turned up on my doorstep this week (thanks, Random House!). And really, aren't those the best kind of love stories?" And I was hooked. it's a post-apocolyptic love story set in the wake of a zombie-creating global virus. Background: I first heard about The Forest of Hands and Teeth in a Waiting on Wednesday post at Presenting Lenore. Lenore said: ". ![]() ![]() ![]() But the reader get’s the feeling that their poverty is of their own making. They live in filth and are slowly starving to death. A chasm divides the rich from the poor and Andrea’s family falls in amongst the latter. Nada is set after the Spanish Civil War in Franco’s Spain. ![]() Illusions are quickly brushed aside, though, and the realities of her new life exposed – squalor, petty melodrama and hunger. Her plan is to attend university and live with her dead mother’s family. I had heaped too many dreams onto this concrete fact for that first sound of the city not to seem a miracle”. On her first morning she tells us, “I was in Barcelona. To her, Barcelona is a glamorous city and she’s come there for all the cliché reasons that young people leave their homes in the country to travel to big cities. Repeatedly (and abruptly) leading the reader into dead ends.Īndrea, the narrator and heroine of the story, is an orphan. ![]() It’s a theme picked up by contemporary Spanish authors like Zafon in films like Pan’s Labyrinth and in Nada, Carmen Laforet’s award winning 1944 novel – translated by Edith Grossman – where the heroine is continuously wandering the hallways, streets and alleyways of Barcelona. ![]() Spanish literature can often have a labyrinthine quality to it, which isn’t surprising when you remember that Spain gave us Gaudi, Dali & Picasso. I’m not completely sure what to make of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Katharine has three grown children and three grandchildren, and now lives in New York City with her husband. ![]() ![]() She wrote the first Angelina Ballerina at the kitchen table with her daughters twirling around her. As a child, she lived in an imaginary world of fairy tales, princesses, and ballerinas, and loved to perform and dance with her sisters. Katharine Holabird grew up in a family of architects and artists in Chicago. With Katharine Holabird's lively writing and Helen Craig's charming illustrations, the original story, now refreshed and re-released, will continue keeping a whole new generation of young ballerinas leaping with delight. Her parents don't know what to do-especially after her arabesques in the kitchen knock over the milk! Then one day they come up with an idea that will change Angelina's life forever. She dances all the time-at home, at school, even in her dreams! In fact, she's so busy dancing that she forgets all about the other things she's supposed to do, like cleaning her room and joining her family for breakfast! In an encore performance, Angelina Ballerina returns in this refreshed picture book from acclaimed author Katharine Holabird and celebrated artist Helen Craig!Īngelina is a pretty little mouse who wants nothing more than to be a ballerina. ![]() ![]() “ Gear Shift takes Dee and her crew in a totally new direction that I think fans of the first story will really enjoy!”ĭee’s journey first began on Tyson Hesse’s (Boxer Hockey) personal blog, when Dee and her fellow Peacetowne inhabitants were featured as original character designs. ![]() “I can’t wait to continue telling Dee’s story as she faces a new world of danger and takes on real responsibilities for the first time,” says Hesse. The one-shot will debut in comic shops in October. BOOM! Studios is excited to announce the return of Dee Diesel in TYSON HESSE’S DIESEL: GEAR SHIFT SPECIAL, an all-new follow-up to the BOOM! Box imprint’s most successful original graphic novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Never shying away from Kennedy's weaknesses, Dallek also brilliantly explores his strengths. Here is a vivid portrait of a man who, because he knew how close he was to death, lived as much as he could - sometimes hurting others in the process. While laboring to present an image of robust good health, Kennedy was secretly in and out of hospitals through-out his life, so ill that he was administered last rites on several different occasions. ![]() ![]() The audiobook carries us from Jack's work as a senator from Massachusetts, through the fiercely contested 1960 campaign against Nixon, and takes us on to the White House itself.Īn Unfinished Life also discloses for the very first time that Kennedy was far sicker than we ever knew. Here is the gripping story of Jack's transformation from an awkward speaker into a brilliant politician with irresistible charm. Dallek reveals for the first time the full story of Kennedy's wartime actions and the true details of how Joe was killed, opening the door to Jack's ascendancy. Forced into the shadow of his older brother, Joe, Jack struggled to find a place for himself until World War II, when he became a national hero and launched his career. An Unfinished Life describes the birth of the Kennedy dynasty, the complexity of Jack's early years, and the mixture of adulation and resentment that tangled his relationships with his mother, Rose, and his father, Joseph. ![]() ![]() ![]() Uses themes in Metallica's work to illuminate topics such as freedom, truth, identity, existentialism, questions of life and death, metaphysics, epistemology, the mind-body problem, morality, justice, and what we owe one another.Maps out the connections between Aristotle, Nietzsche, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Metallica, to demonstrate the band's philosophical significance.A provocative study of the 'thinking man's' metal band. ![]() ![]() But back before these philosophy professors cut their hair, they were lieutenants in the Metal Militia. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school-they actually paid $5.98 for The $5.98 EP. Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you're about to enter the School of Rock! Today's lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hastings appears to have been introduced by Christie in accordance with the model of Sherlock Holmes's associate, Doctor Watson, to whom he bears a marked resemblance. Moreover, when Christie expanded The Submarine Plans (1923) as The Incredible Theft (1937), she removed Hastings. Of the twenty-two Poirot novels published between 19, he appears in seven. He is not a character in either Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express, the two best-known Poirot novels. In Christie's original writings, however, Hastings is not in every short story or novel. A few were stories into which he had been adapted (for example, Murder in the Mews). Many of the early TV episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot were adaptations of short stories, in most of which he appeared in print. ![]() Hastings is today strongly associated with Poirot, due more to the television adaptations than to the novels. He is also the narrator of several of them. ![]() He is first introduced in Christie's 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (originally written in 1916) and appears as a character in seven other Poirot novels, including the final one Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975), along with a play and many short stories. ![]() Hastings, OBE, is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie as the companion-chronicler and best friend of the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re keen on a particular mask (though this is fro a rock group, not a movie, as today). At the centre of the story are fans of alternative music, and alternative lifestyles, who gather at traditional spots (and some non-traditional) around the country and refuse to move. What’s curious, reading it now, is how many echoes there are of the Occupy movement, in a novel written more than a decade before the first Occupy tent peg was driven in. (The rest of the world, we sketchily learn, is on varying parts of the same spectrum.) Published in 2001, it tells the story of “Dissolution Summer”, as Britain splits into its constituent parts, the economic and technical systems break down, and total societal collapse looms. (Couldn’t face The Road again – it is a brilliant book, but I spent two weeks depressed after reading it!) Something a bit both radical but also playful seemed like the seasonal thing, if you’re going to read something like this at all. ![]() I was reading an article about “Armageddon fiction” - well there is a lot of it around at the moment, for obvious reasons - and comment left on it recommended Gwyneth Jones’s Bold As Love in a way that caught my fancy. ![]() ![]() A future that would see him crowned and known for all time as Arthur, King of the Britons.ĭuring Arthur’s reign, the kingdom of Camelot was founded to cast enlightenment on the Dark Ages, while the knights of the Round Table embarked on many a noble quest. A future in which he would ally himself with the greatest knights, love a legendary queen and unite a country dedicated to chivalrous values. Once upon a time, a young boy called “Wart” was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation for a future he couldn’t possibly imagine. ![]() White’s masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted readers for generations. ![]() |