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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Cook­book
The Jew­ish Cookbook
Leah Koenig, Julia Turshen (fwd.)
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Chil­dren’s
Becom­ing RBG: Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s Jour­ney to Justice
Debbie Levy (auth.), Whitney Gardner (illus.)  
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The Dry Heart
Natalia Ginzburg (auth.), Frances Frenaye (trans.)
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Jew­ish Text
Pre­pare My Prayer
Rabbi Dov Singer
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24/6: The Pow­er of Unplug­ging One Day a Week
Tiffany Shlain
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Deb­o­rah Shapiro
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Deb­o­rah Miller
December 16, 2019
Essay

The Speed of Thought: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Maria Tumarkin

Dalia Wolf­son
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Poet­ry
Birthright: Poems
Eri­ka Dreifus
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Cook­book
My Spiced Kitchen: A Mid­dle East­ern Cookbook
Yaniv Cohen
Essay

How to Keep Kosher Internationally

Nealy Fis­ch­er
November 25, 2019
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The 100 Most Jew­ish Foods: A High­ly Debat­able List
Alana New­house
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Some Unimag­in­able Animal
David Eben­bach
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Port­land Zion­ists Unite!: And Oth­er Stories
Eric Flamm
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Non­fic­tion
The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah
Adam Valen Levinson
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It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Oth­er Jew­ish Stories
Lau­ra Silverman
Kather­ine Locke
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