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Jonathan Spi­ra-Savett

Jonathan Spi­ra-Savett is a rab­bi and teen edu­ca­tor. He is the rab­bi at Tem­ple Beth Abra­ham in Nashua, NH. His work focus­es on civic edu­ca­tion and youth phil­an­thropy, and he has taught his­to­ry, lit­er­a­ture, and envi­ron­men­tal stud­ies in addi­tion to tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish texts.
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Inher­it­ing Abra­ham: The Lega­cy of the Patri­arch in Judaism, Chris­tian­i­ty, and Islam
Jon D. Levenson
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The Obser­vant Life: The Wis­dom of Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism for Con­tem­po­rary Jews
Martin Cohen and Michael Katz, eds.; Arnold M. Eisen, fwd.
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David Hazony; Yoram Hazony; Michael B. Oren, eds.
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Anita Shapira; Evelyn Abel, trans.
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Tes­ti­mo­ny, Ten­sions, and Tikkun: Teach­ing the Holo­caust in Col­leges and Universities
Myrna Goldenberg and Rochelle L. Millen, eds.
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Res­ur­rec­tion: The Pow­er of God for Chris­tians and Jews
Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson
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Sacred Attune­ment: A Jew­ish Theology
Michael Fishbane

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