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Now available! The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook 6 Self-Guided Walking/Bicycling Jewish Boston History Tours Covers Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge Softcover 198 pages with maps & b/w photos Print out this Book Order Form to order now!

Now available! The Ten Commandments Guidebook Ways to Self-Struggle with Classic Morals In Song, Poetry, and Prose Covers 10 Commandments Plus One Other! Softcover 153 pages with practical suggestions pages! Print out this Book Order Form to order now!

10 Jewish Books Top Ten, Best, Practical American-English Language Jewish Texts, Commentaries, & Guidebooks

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Number 1 BostonWalks' The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook Author: Michael Alan Ross Learn Boston's Jewish history by walking! Includes six self-guided walk tours of downtown Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge!

Number 2 The Ten Commandments Guidebook Author: Michael Alan Ross Learn the Ten Commandments by doing good deeds! Includes humorous, satirical songs and spirited, exhortatory poems and prose!

Number 3 Swimming in the Sea of Talmud Authors: Michael Katz & Gershon Schwartz Learn from the six major sections of the Jewish Talmud in English! Includes traditional and modern commentaries, interpretations and stories!

Number 4 Sedra Scenes - Skits for Every Torah Portion Author: Stan J. Beiner Learn the weekly reading of the Five Books of Moses from the Jewish Old Testament! Includes lively interpretive skits and dialogue!

Number 5 Prayerbook Hebrew - The Easy Way Authors: Joseph Anderson, Linda Motzkin, Jonathan Rubenstein, & Laurence Wiseman Learn to understand the Hebrew words you're praying in the synagogue each week! Includes vocabulary, grammar, and prayers!

Number 6 The Amazing Adventures of the Jewish People Author: Max I. Dimont Learn the entire history of Jews in one hundred, seventy-two pages! Includes great humor, great sadness, great hope, and gratefulness!

Number 7 Brandeis of Boston Author: Allon Gal Learn about this great American jurist along with the history of Zionism and Jewish Americans! Includes insights into pragmatism, politics, and personalities of early 20th century Jewish America!

Number 8 The Big Book of Jewish Humor Editors: William Novak & Moshe Waldoks Learn to laugh at Jewish foibles from the past and present Includes text, context, cartoons, and mishiggus!

Number 9 The International Jewish Songbook Editor: Velvel Pasternak Learn popular Hebrew and Yiddish 20th century songs! Includes Hebrew, Yiddish, and English lyrics, music, and transliterations!

Number 10 Etz Chayim - Torah and Commentary Editors: David L. Lieber, Chaim Potok, Harold Kushner, Jules Harlow, Elliot Dorff, Susan Grossman, & Michael Fishbane under the auspices of The Rabbinical Assembly of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Learn the Five Books of Moses from a Jewish translation and interpretation! Includes 3 levels of commentaries as well as overview essays!

Number 11 The ArtScroll / Schottenstein Edition Siddur for the Sabbath and Festivals with an Interlinear Translation Editors: Menachem Davis, Nosson Scherman, Meir Zlotowitz, & Yaakov Blinder under the auspices of The Mesorah Heritage Foundation Learn the classic Jewish prayers! Includes line-by-line English translations and traditional commentaries!

LINKS Walks Around Boston Links Walk or bike ride with BostonWalks and explore the neighborhoods adjacent to the Charles River For 10 great places to walk with water views in Boston, click on this smiley-walking face BostonWalks' The Jewish Friendship Trail - Boston's West and North Ends BostonWalks' The Jewish Friendship Trail - Boston's South End BostonWalks' The Jewish Friendship Trail - Brookline BostonWalks' The Jewish Friendship Trail - Cambridge Within walking Distance - Houses of Worship In and Around Boston-Brookline-Cambridge, Massachusetts USA Ten Reasons for Seatbelts on Schoolbuses New Interpretations of our Ten Commandments Links The original humorous satirical song lyrics, Please Keep Us Wealthy, considering the 8th Commandment, Don't steal! The original song, Try to Smile and Love Your Neighbor, considering what Mr. Ross labels the 11th Commandment, Love your neighbor as yourself! The original, satirical, political song, Capitalist Commands, considering the 10th Commandment, Don't Covet! The original, acrostic poem, Anti-Semite, considering the 6th Commandment, You shall not murder The original Walter Mittyish style daydream, Dance before God, considering the 2nd Commandment, Have one God only! The original mystical, kabbalah vision-type, poem, Commit, considering the 1st Commandment, Recognize God/Goodness! The original, poetic blessing, for oneness, In Awe, considering the 1st Commandment, Appreciate God/Goodness!

From the Charles River, Liberty, Democracy, Freedom, & Responsibility flow!

Now available! The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook 6 Self-Guided Walking/Bicycling Jewish Boston History Tours Covers Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge Softcover 198 pages with maps & b/w photos Print out this Book Order Form to order now!

Now available! The Ten Commandments Guidebook Ways to Self-Struggle with Classic Morals In Song, Poetry, and Prose Covers 10 Commandments Plus One Other! Softcover 153 pages with practical suggestions pages! Print out this Book Order Form to order now!

"West End House" circa 2004
Begun by 35 Jewish boys in 1903!

Boston Walks The Jewish Friendship Trail

To be satisfied with life perhaps, one might consider this raspberry!

Chazak Ve-ematz “be strong and resolute” (Moses’ words to Joshua in Deut. 31:7)

Filene Best of Boston NYC UWS Brandeis Love Your Neighbor Watertown, New Town, & Muddy River Walk Near Water Refute Hate Walk West/North Ends We're One Pray Here Meditation Clubs Brookline Sensual Walks More Love Reporting Jewish Books TEN South End What's a political mensch? More "What's a political mensch?"

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Question: What's a political mensch? Answer #1 Answer #2

Click here for 10 reasons for more bike trails!

Should orthodox women have the same opportunities to participate in learning, davening, and minhagim as men? Click here for an original, creative, poetic elaboration of such a question, Sheaylot

BostonWalks Integrating the urban, modern ethnic experience with its historical sites and ethical themes in urban locales such as Boston, MA, Portland, ME, East Bay and Providence, RI, and the Upper West Side of Manhattan, NYC.

Sing Sense to America Are you ready to participate in the '08 presidential election by singing some salivatingly satirical and serious song lyrics? If so, try these on your tongue: CAPITALIST COMMANDS KEEP US WEALTHY LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

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