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Historically the plants of the Bible have been of great interest for botanical studies, for their medicinal qualities, for cooking, for building gardens, for inspiration, and as metaphors for teaching.The Bible often provides both social and symbolic meanings for plants, but sometimes the ambiguity of language means that the species mentioned cannot be specifically identified. The Bible was written in Aramaic and Hebrew, it was first translate...

Jews under Moroccan Skies tells the story of Jewish life in Morocco, describing in realistic detail how Jews and Muslims interweaved their lives in peace for centuries. The authors give us the rich history of Berber Jews, the Moroccan tzadikim, and Jewish mysticism in the country. They also describe the cultural differences between the Judeo-Spanish communities of the North, the Francophone urban Jews, and the Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Berber tra...

She Rises While It Is Still Night is a study of dreaming in kabbalistic terms. God speaks through dreams. How else to say it? Dreaming provides access to dimensions beyond the ordinary. Dreaming is an activity of spiritual proportions. Dreams come from the Great Mystery. If you are drawn to the Mystery, you will find this book fascinating.

Rabbi Stephen Leon has written his theological memoir about experiences with Anusim families from the Southwest of the U.S., Mexico and beyond. Since the 1980's he has been a major figure in the Borderlands region of the Rio Grande, recognizing the B'nei Anusim and their return to Judaism.

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Sephardic women's writings present invaluable information about the marginalization and silencing of the Jewish experience in North Africa and France. These stories offer testaments of human experience that belongs in the diverse and hybrid collection of post-colonial stories of displaced peoples.

Rabbi Sohn has written an exceptional family portrait of the experience of living in Egypt with her husband and children. Advised not to share the fact that they are Jewish, they discover what it means to hide and then increasingly share their identity.

Moroccan Sephardic Romancero is an anthology of Sephardic Romances in the Moroccan tradition, based on four decades of research. Starting in the 1970s' the author has collected more than two hundred variations on ballads from people living in the different countries of the Moroccan Diaspora. For all of us who work on the traditional Romancero-and for all Hispanists whatever their speciality-we need to thank and congratulate Shoshana Weich...fo...

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In The Mountain, the Desert and the Pomegranate Vanessa Paloma looks at the mysteries and complexities of life beyond simple physical observation. Spirituality and felt perceptions influence what we see, hear, and do. From coyotes that join in a chorus backing up the soprano singing in the desert to the pomegranate and the Berbers who live in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and geckos that live in towers in Casablanca life is full of mysteries....

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Islam and Muslims is an introduction to Islam, the Muslim world and its people. The religion and beliefs, the life of Muhammad, and the development of the great civilizations that historically characterized this religious tradition are described. Not all Arabs are Muslims, and most Muslims are not Arabs. The book explains the ethnic diversity of the Muslim world from Arabs to Turks, Egyptians, Persians, Kurds, Malays, Africans, Berbers, and ma...

All Breathing Life Adores Your Name is a book of prayers composed as poetry by the founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. This English language book of prayers introduces the reader to Jewish mysticism in contemporary life. Rabbi Lawrence Kushner has said that Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's ideas and stories have "profoundly altered the landscape of American Judaism." And, it is in his tradition of originality and ...

Princes, Popes and Pirates is an epic novel about the life of Joseph Nasi, the Duke of Naxos and an important leader in the world of Sephardic Jewry in the late sixteenth century. This is a sequel to Toro's By Fire Possessed: Do a Gracia Nasi, about the life of the most important Jewish woman leader of that era.Joseph Nasi is the historical fi gure on which Th e Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe was based, later re-interpreted by Shakespeare...

A Hidden Light is a description of early ḤaBaD and Bratzlav Hasidic teaching and storytelling, focusing on the founders of ḤaBaD (Shneur Zalman of Liadi, his son, Dov Baer of Lubavitch, and chief disciple, Ahron of Staroshelye) and Bratzlav (Nahman of Bratzlav and his chief disciple, Nosson of Nemirov). In this book, the teachings and tales of these two branches of Hasidic spirituality are richly enhanced by the new insights, interpretations a...

Sequel to: Guardians of hidden traditions.

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Revision, for young adults, of the author's Herr Krupp's Berthawerk: Santa Fe: Gaon Books, 2008"--Copyright page.