Jewish Books by Fred Reiss

Parallel Jewish  and civil calendars from 2001 to 2240, including  corresponding Jewish and civil dates; Jewish, civil, US federal, and Israeli holidays; weekly Torah and haftarah readings; fast days and rosh hodesh; the 28-year machzor hagadol celebrations; Sabbatical and hakhel years, and Sabbath and holiday candle-lighting times for selected cities.  (For more information and pricing, click Calendars in the Menu Bar.)

Parallel Jewish  and civil calendars from 2021 to 2140, with corresponding Jewish and Israeli holidays, as well as the national holidays of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and United Kingdom. Additionally, the calendars show weekly Torah and haftarah readings, fast days and rosh hodesh, the 28-year machzor hagadol celebrations, Sabbatical and hakhel years, and Sabbath and holiday candle-lighting times for selected cities.  (For more information and pricing, click Calendars in the Menu Bar.)

A comprehensive explanation of the Jewish calendar, describing the complex interactions among the calendar's molad (lunar conjunction), years, and cycles in simplified terms, along with examples, chapter reviews, and exercises with answers. A reading, research, and learning tool.   (For more information and pricing, click Calendars in the Menu Bar.) 

The planner’s calendar pages are arranged by civil-calendar week within calendar year 2024-2025, corresponding to Jewish year 5785 and part of 5786, with space for recording daily tasks, appointments and reminders.  Also included are: Jewish, civil, federal, and national-Israeli holidays, weekly Torah and haftarah readings, fast days, rosh hodesh, space for notes and planning, and a description and explanation of the holidays. (For more information and pricing, click Calendars in the Menu Bar. )

A Deep Dive into the Jewish Calendar for the Mathematically Challenged actually abounds with numbers, but does not ask readers to perform arithmetic calculations to arrive at conclusions. Instead, this work illuminates the rules and corollaries supporting the calendar and decodes calendar facts and frameworks through comprehensive explanations, relevant examples, and by means of tables, figures, and graphs.  (For more information and pricing, click Calendars in the Menu Bar.) 

Kabbalah is pagan at its heart, this is why the rabbis forbade its study. Kabbalah is the merging of Greek philosophy and Jewish theology. Yet, the Kabbalah of today is not the original Kabbalah. Sepher Yetzirah: The Book That Started Kabbalah recovers the authentic elements of Jewish mysticism, laying out its philosophical, theological, and magical roots.   (For more information and pricing, click Kabbalah on the Menu Bar.) 

A fiction story describing the hunt for two of the most magical items in all of Judaism, the Urim and Thummim, the crystal ball and dice held in the high priest's Breastplate of Judgement, described in Ex. 28, as a conduit for the return of the Messiah.  (For more information and pricing, click Kabbalah on the Menu Bar.)  

 A historical account of public education in Camden, NJ from its beginnings in the 1830s to 1950, as seen through the eyes of the board of education, teachers, students, and parents as they encounter such things as wars, politics, jobbery,  the Great Depression, WWII, racism and segregation.  (For more information and pricing, click Camden on the Menu Bar.)  

Word searches created to be enjoyable, entertaining, and educational.  (For more information and pricing, click Games on the Menu Bar.)