40 Things You Can Do to Save the Jewish People: Some Really Practical Ideas for Parents Who Want to Raise "Good Enough" Jewish Kids to Insure That T

Some really practical ideas for parents who want to raise "good enough" Jewish kids to insure that the Jewish people will last at least another generationAn insightful book on Jewish parenting by a middle-aged divorced man without children, 40 Things is based on the many failures and few successes of the author's friends' attempts to be perfect Jewish parents. It is a practical book about improving the odds which asks: "How much can we get away with and still raise fully Jewish children who will in turn raise other Jewish children?"

Joel Lurie Grishaver is a teacher of Jewish texts to adults and teenagers, a writer, a cartoonist, and a storyteller. He has degrees from Boston University and the University of Chicago and has done extensive course work at the Hebrew Union College and the University of Southern California. His more than fifty published books include Learning Torah, Shema is For Real, And You Shall Be a Blessing, and The Bonding of Isaac: Stories and Essays About Gender and Spirituality. Joel is the creative chairperson of both Torah Aura Productions and Alef Design Group, as well as the creator and co-editor of five weekly electronic journals: Learn Torah With...A Facsimile Dialogue on the Weekly Torah Portion, Bim Bam, C. Ha, Shabbas.doc, and The Torah Aura Bulletin Board.