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"Ari Eden's life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense study and religious rituals, and adolescence feels profoundly lonely. So when his family announces that they are moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, Ari seizes his unexpected chance for reinvention. Enrolling in an opulent Jewish academy, Ari is stunned by his peers' dizzying wealth, ambition, and shameless pursuit of life's pleasures....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A nymphet who was already turning men's heads in her pre-teens recounts her story. She is Elizabeth Taube from a well-off family in Great Neck, New York. After an apprenticeship in the backroom of a kind, old furrier, she progresses to an affair with her favorite school teacher, then onto Huddie, a black basketball player. By the author of Come to Me.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From stories of confronting their relationships with Judaism to rom-coms with a side of bagels and lox, It's a Whole Spiel features one story after another that says yes, we are Jewish, but we are also queer, and disabled, and creative, and political, and adventurous, and anything we want to be"--
7) Campfire
Series
Film Movement ; 3, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
עברית
Description
A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join the founding group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about their struggles with the acceptance committee and their living as an outcast in the settlement.
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Publisher
Jewish Lights Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Raising a teenager is difficult; your Jewish values can help make it easier.
Relationships with teenage children can be maddening and frustrating. They undergo the most peculiar transition from children you think you know into mysterious adolescent strangers you often wish you didn't.
Drawing upon the teachings, insights, and wisdom that have sustained the Jewish people throughout the generations, this groundbreaking and invaluable guidebook will...
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English
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"Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents file for divorce, and just like that her childhood seems to be over. Among this world of confusing beginnings,...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Palestinian Amal Rifa'i and Israeli Odelia Ainbinder are two teenage girls who live in the same city, yet worlds apart. They met on a student exchange program to Switzerland. Weeks after they returned, the latest, violent Intifada broke out in the fall of 2000.
But, two-years later, Middle East correspondent Sylke Tempel encouraged Amal and Odelia to develop their friendship by facilitating an exchange of their deepest feelings through letters....
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English
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The story of a young girl who had to go into hiding during World War II for being different. Anne Frank's diary manages to create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, while never letting us forget the extraordinary threat of death that awaits the characters if they are discovered. This is the first authorized film based on actual entries of the real diary.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1945, after surviving a harrowing year in Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli returns, along with her mother and brother, to the family home, now part of Slovakia, where they try to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the stories of Jewish teenagers who were sent to Nazi concentration camps where they were separated from their families and survived years of exhausting labor, scarce food, and cruel guards.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In 1950, unlikely friends Vinny Vesta, a tough Sicilian Hell's Kitchen gang leader, and Sidney Butcher, a brilliant Orthodox Jew, are caught in the crossfire when Gee-gee Perone, a ruthless mobster, plots to eliminate the other mob bosses.
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English
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"Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez--a biracial Jewish girl--finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable career. When she discovers a forgotten Jewish cemetery behind her aunt's cottage, she meets the ghost of a kindhearted boy named Benjamin, who died over a century ago. As Ilana restores Benjamin's grave, he...
18) What makes us
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Eran Sharon knows nothing of his father except that he left when Eran was a baby. Now a senior in high school and living with his protective but tight-lipped mother, Eran is a passionate young man deeply interested in social justice and equality. When he learns that the Houston police have launched a program to increase traffic stops, Eran organizes a peaceful protest. But a heated moment at the protest goes viral, and a reporter connects the Sharon...
19) It's my life
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English
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"While facing disturbing revelations about the cause of her disability, a high school junior with cerebral palsy is on the verge of giving up on herself until she learns that her childhood crush has moved back into town." --
Jenna's never let her cerebral palsy get her down. When she discovers that her condition was actually caused by an injury at birth, she's furious with her parents for withholding the truth. Now they're pushing her to get yet...
Author
Publisher
Mandel Vilar Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--