The Un Chosen Life

This book can raise your thoughts about God and His power to a higher standard, challenging your faith to believe in His ability and greatness. In His Word, He tells us to prove Him and see.

This book can raise your thoughts about God and His power to a higher standard, challenging your faith to believe in His ability and greatness. In His Word, He tells us to prove Him and see.

An exploration of Hasidic Jews struggling to live within their restrictive communities—and, in some cases, to carve out a new life beyond them When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to escape it. Unchosen tells the stories of these “rebel” Hasidim, serious questioners who long for greater personal and intellectual freedom than their communities allow. She meets is Malky Schwartz, who grew up in a Lubavith sect in Brooklyn, and started Footsteps, Inc., an organization that helps ultra-Orthodox Jews who are considering or have already left their community. There is Yossi, a young man who, though deeply attached to the Hasidic culture in which he was raised, longed for a life with fewer restrictions and more tolerance. Yossi's efforts at making such a life, however, were being severely hampered by his fourth grade English and math skills, his profound ignorance of the ways of the outside world, and the looming threat that pursuing his desires would almost certainly lead to rejection by his family and friends. Then she met Dini, a young wife and mother whose decision to deviate even slightly from Hasidic standards of modesty led to threatening phone calls from anonymous men, warning her that she needed to watch the way she was dressing if she wanted to remain a part of the community. Someone else introduced Winston to Steinmetz, a closet bibliophile worked in a small Judaica store in his community and spent his days off anxiously evading discovery in the library of the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary, whose shelves contain non-Hasidic books he is forbidden to read but nonetheless devours, often several at a sitting. There were others still who had actually made the wrenching decision to leave their communities altogether. In her new Preface, Winston discusses the passionate reactions the book has elicited among Hasidim and non-Hasidim alike. Named one of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Religion Books of 2005. Honorable Mention in the 2012 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism

In the fight against dark forces that threaten mankind, the elite and chosen Macy, knows there is no room for speed bumps. However, not only does their prophesied leader arrive ten years late, but turns out to be Tolen, a reclusive seventeen year-old. This action-packed adventure tests everything that Macy is, and brings out all that Tolen can be.

Although I am a gentile, I came into the Kingdom of God when Jesus told me: You must be born again, then I heard Him say, I tell you the truth, Bob, unless, you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom Of God. That day when He spoke those words to me I was so excited as I listened. Then Jesus replied, "I assure you, Bob, no one can enter the Kingdom Of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. (Not beyond anyone's understanding, Bob) So don't be surprised when I say, You must be born again. The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can't tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can't explain how people are born of the Spirit." (What can I do, Lord Jesus, ) Check Out...Revelation 3:19-20, and certainly John 3:3-8 These instructions were not given immediate attention, but they enlarged my spirit of understanding, and bless the Lord He never released me till the narrow road became clear.

Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the disenfranchisement associated with unjust dispossession of land, economic and political power, and basic conditions for living? In the context of neoliberal expropriation of labor and livelihood, dispossession opens up a performative condition of being both affected by injustice and prompted to act. From the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa to the anti-neoliberal gatherings at Puerta del Sol, Syntagma and Zucchotti Park, an alternative political and affective economy of bodies in public is being formed. Bodies on the street are precarious - exposed to police force, they are also standing for, and opposing, their dispossession. These bodies insist upon their collective standing, organize themselves without and against hierarchy, and refuse to become disposable: they demand regard. This book interrogates the agonistic and open-ended corporeality and conviviality of the crowd as it assembles in cities to protest political and economic dispossession through a performative dispossession of the sovereign subject and its propriety.

At 36, Clara finds herself childless, single and jobless at Manchester airport, backpack in tow. She's about to embark on a journey, but this isn't the adventure she planned.While Clara was single-mindedly pursuing her goal to become a mother, she lost everything else - marriage, friendships and career.Now she's setting off to the other side of the world - but is happiness possible in this unchosen life of hers? Bringing home the harsh realities and uncomfortable truths of infertility, this emotional but ultimately uplifting tale speaks of love, longing and a woman's search for identity and meaning in a life she didn't choose. Reviews It's rare for an author to face the subject of infertility, never mind embrace it has Tori has. She really understands the fertility journey and the emotions that go with it. Fertility Network UK The Unchosen Life is a book about the agonies of infertility and the strain and pressure wanting a baby so desperately puts on marriages and relationships. It's also a book about recovery via the ups and downs of travel, about moving out of the darkness towards the half light of an uncertain future. Mark Connors, Author and poet An honest and heartfelt story about overcoming adversity. Tori will have you reaching for the tissues one minute and laughing out loud the next. Raw, emotional and touching. A must read. Helena Fairfax, Author and Freelance Editor A heartwarming story about what happens when life doesn't deal us the hand we so desperately want. It tackles the heartbreak of failed IVF and the ramifications of infertility head on. However, this is ultimately an uplifting tale about finding light and life after loss. Rebecca Ryan, Author Tori Day's books have made a huge impact within the fertility community - bringing a voice to the hidden struggle of many, offering them solidarity and hope. Jessica Hepburn, Founder of Fertility Fest 10% of profits go to Fertility Network UK