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Holidays and Life Cycle  
Apples and Honey:
Music and Readings for a Secular Observance of the Jewish New Year Festival
Edited by Julie Gales and Pat Martz

Highly readable, well-organized information on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Provides history, readings, and songs for inclusion in Secular Humanistic New Year Celebrations.

$5.00
Celebrating Jewish Holidays: An Introduction for Secular Jewish Families and
Their Community
By Bennett Muraskin, Judith Seid and Lawrence Schofer, with contributions by Eva Goldfinger and Hershl Hartman.

A 1990 favorite revised. This booklet explains most Jewish holidays from a secular viewpoint. REPRINT

$5.00 each or $30.00 for 10
The Hanuka Festival: A Guide for the Rest of Us By Hershl Hartman

A Hanuka booklet that seeks to separate facts from fancy so that those who identify with Jewish culture will not feel excluded from celebrating the festival.

$7.00
The Jewish New Year Festival:
A Guide for the Rest of Us
By Hershl Hartman

This booklet presents the ancient folk traditions and the historical connections that underlie the New Year festival.

$7.00
Sholem Family Hagada For a Secular Celebration of Peysakh This full color, illustrated, spiral-bound Hagada is one of the ‘alternate’ Hagadas used throughout the world. It was created by the Sholem Community Organization of Los Angeles, California, USA.

$7.00
Around and Around: Jewish Life Cycle Ceremonies By Joan M. Kurtz

A textbook/workbook targeting a fifth and sixth grade audience, yet enjoyable and interesting for people of all ages.

$15.00
We Rejoice In Our Heritage: Home Rituals for Secular and Humanistic Jews

By Judith Seid

A collection of rituals in English, Yiddish and Hebrew for the secular celebration of Jewish holidays. These home rituals, created through a process of adaptation and synthesis, help to fulfill the need for a Jewish anchor in the home.

$10.00

Shabbes Book

By Paul Shane

Songs and readings for the celebration of Shabbes

$10.00

Shabbes/Sabbath Book

By Bennett Muraskin

Songs and readings for Shabbes/Sabbath

$12.00

Haggadah for a Secular Celebration of Pesach By Sholom Aleichem Club, Philadelphia

Reprint of the meaningful and colorful Haggadah created by Max Rosenfeld and the Sholem Aleichem Club of Philadelphia. REPRINT

$15.00
Educational  
Heroes and Heroines of Jewish Folklore: Joshua to Daniel By Joan Kurtz

A collection of bible stories that help children discover that the people of the Bible were not superheroes, but ordinary people with strengths and weaknesses just like them.

$15.00
Hidden History of Hanuka for Kids (and grownups too)

By Hershl Hartman and Jeffrey Kaye, ed

For youngsters (5th grade and up) who want to know the “why” of everything. Kids who are Jewish, part-Jewish (and their families) appreciate the historical and multicultural approach to the “December Dilemma”.

$7.00

Yiddish Stories For Young Children

Edited by Itche Goldberg

For young and old alike…stories by the Yiddish masters.

$15.00

Our People Through the Middle Ages

Henry Goodman

A history of the Jews for young people

$10.00

Yiddish Culture  
A Yiddish Short Story Sampler By Bennett Muraskin

This booklet is the author’s successful attempt to provide a survey of Yiddish short stories that deal with themes that concern Jewish Humanists.

$5.00
New Yorkish and Other American Yiddish Stories Translated by Max Rosenfeld

A collection of previously untranslated stories that serve as a guidepost to a thriving, self-conscious Jewish community life in North America.

$15.00
Pushcarts and Dreamers
Edited By Max Rosenfeld

Stories of Jewish Life in America.

$15.00
History and Philosophy  
Understanding Secular Humanistic Judaism Compiled by Judith Seid

A compliation of essays about Secular Humanistic Judaism. REPRINT

$15.00
God-Optional Judaism By Judith Seid

This is a handbook for Jews looking for creative and meaningful ways to express their own way of being Jewish.

$20.00
Let Justice Well Up like Water

By Bennett Muraskin

A best-seller!

Book containing 62 concise biographies of Progressive Jews from Hillel to Helen Suzman.

$15.00

Festivals, Folklore and Philosophy By Max Rosenfeld

A secularist revisits Jewish traditions

$15.00
Humanist Readings in Jewish Folklore By Bennett Muraskin

120 folk tales presented with an eye
to ethics and morals. REPRINT

$15.00
Poetry and Song  
KUMZITS! A Festivity of Instant Jewish Songs By Judith Seid, Edited by Pat Martz

Songs for the whole year: for Shabbes, for solidarity and in celebration. Songs for all ages. Simple enough for children, real meaning for adults. Easy-to-sing, easy-to-play, easy-to-learn songs in English, Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino.

$20.00
Zingen Far Sholem By Sholem Educational Institute

Book and tape of mostly Yiddish favorite songs to learn and sing. Published by Sholem Educational Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA.

$8.00
Miscellaneous  
Hanuka Cards 24 cards (2 packs - 12 per pack)

$5.00

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