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A mystical skeptic: Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border between Science and Spirituality ****
On this Easter weekend, Christians consider the proposition that a crucified Jew who troubled the Roman authority was raised from the dead to promise eternal, redemptive life to his followers. On this Passover weekend, Jews consider the proposition that an invisible God, through the agency of a prince of Egypt, redeemed them from bondage into a land promised to them eternally.
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Finding Home: In the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers *
ISBN:1-894549-40-6
Author:Jill Culiner
Publisher:Sumach Press
Jewish Community Centre, November 21, 2004, Vancouver, BC., 8:00 p.m. -- Author Jill Culiner has uncovered a largely forgotten corner of Jewish history, The Fusgeyers (the Yiddish word for 'foot-goers' — wayfarers) were Jews who fled persecution in Romania in the early 1900s in order to find refuge, ultimately, in the New World.
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Literary Reading with Anna Morgan *
Thursday, March 30 at 9:30 a.m., Vancouver, BC
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Literary Reading with Lesley Simpson *
The JCC announces an evening reading: Thursday, March 9 at 9:30 am, Vancouver, BC
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Jonathan Safran Foer: 'I hit the book lottery' *
Jonathan Safran Foer wears the wunderkind label he earned for his debut novel lightly, SIMON HOUPT writes. The best part of fame, he says, is that the world is more receptive
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