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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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Mai­monides — Between Phi­los­o­phy and Halakhah
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Lawrence J. Kaplan, ed.
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The Peo­ple and the Books
Adam Kirsch
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Aphrodite and the Rabbis
Bur­ton L. Visotzky
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Torah and West­ern Thought: Intel­lec­tu­al Por­traits of Ortho­doxy and Modernity
Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik. Dr. Stuart W. Halpern, and Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier, eds.
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The Great Prin­ci­ple of the Torah
Rabbi Jack Bieler
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Why Be Jew­ish?: A Testament
Edgar M. Bronfman
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False Facts and True Rumors: Lashon HaRa in Con­tem­po­rary Culture
Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman
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The Bible Does­n’t Say That: 40 Bib­li­cal Mis­trans­la­tions, Mis­con­cep­tions, and Oth­er Misunderstandings
Joel Hoff­man
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Nam­ing God: Avinu Malkeinu, Our Father, Our King
Lawrence A. Hoffman
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The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Old­est Bible
Chanan Tigay
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The Jew­ish Olympics: The His­to­ry of the Mac­cabi­ah Games
Ron Kaplan

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