My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner. A Family Memoir By Meir ShalevFrom the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over the top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev's birth. Here we meet Shalev's amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the family's biggest enemy in their new land: dirt. Grandma Tonia was never seen without a

He shows that while the faithful may become members of a religious community

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useful new examples and exercises

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more than eighty women rabbis from the Reform

one that physically cleanses our bodies

haftarot and Shabbat tefillot are followed by an English halakhic guide at the back

even those they have seen many times before

and will assist Russian Jews

Eli's family consoles him with other ways of performing the mitzva of Bikur Cholim

People surrounded by the darkness of supposedly-terminal diseases or apparently insurmountable debts saw the light of day after taking the advice of this book