[ha-Safran] Adult Fiction that Illustrate the 10 Commandments

2017-09-27 Thread Israel Cohen
Hello Rhonda -- As an illustration of the effects of violating the commandment against adultery, I can suggest a novel soon to be published by BookLocker: *Love and the Israeli Terrorist Terminator* by Macabee Dean. I edited the book. The Jewish author was a *Jerusalem POST* journalist for 30 yea

Re: [ha-Safran] Adult Fiction that Illustrate the 10 Commandments

2017-09-26 Thread Michal Strutin
Emily-- I think Geraldine Brooks' *The Secret Chord * would fit for either Commandment 1 or 2. Brooks is such an excellent writer, and her version of

Re: [ha-Safran] Adult Fiction that Illustrate the 10 Commandments

2017-09-26 Thread Rosen, Rhonda
Many thanks to Emily for pushing this message out. Just to add a little more info, I’m looking for 10 books to create a yearlong celebration, so it would be any book that would illustrate, illuminate, interpret any one of the commandments, thereby giving me one per month. I would then hope to h

[ha-Safran] Adult Fiction that Illustrate the 10 Commandments

2017-09-26 Thread Emily Bergman
I have a colleague at a Jesuit university here who's library has been leading an adult, Jewish book group for the community for the past 10 years. To celebrate the 10 years, she's thinking of finding a book (hopefully fiction) that illustrates each of the 10 Commandments…so in other words, a book t