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Jonathan Fass

Jonathan Fass is the Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of RootOne at The Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion Project of New York.
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Ron Wyden
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Howard Rosen­stein
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The Torah of Leadership
Eri­ca Brown
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Marc Katz
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Avi Shalev
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Benyamin Cohen
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Jonathan Sacks
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Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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S. Ilan Troen
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Dan Stone
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Jere­my Eichler
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Abra­ham: The Sto­ry of a Journey
Jonathan Grossman
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Eri­ca Brown
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