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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Chang­ing the Immutable: How Ortho­dox Judaism Rewrites Its History
Marc B. Shapiro
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Reclaim­ing Bar/​Bat Mitz­vah as a Spir­i­tu­al Rite of Passage
Goldie Mil­gram
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Jew­ish Wis­dom for Grow­ing Older
Dayle A. Friedman
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Berlin Wolf
Mark Florida-James
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Head­lines: Halachic Debates of Cur­rent Events
Dovid Lichtenstein
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On the Front Lines in a Chang­ing Jew­ish World: Col­lect­ed Writ­ings, 1988 – 2013
Michael C. Kotzin
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Bar Mitz­vah: A History
Michael Hilton
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Maps and Mean­ing: Levit­i­cal Mod­els for Con­tem­po­rary Care
Nancy H. Wiener and Jo Hirschmann
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A Guide to the Com­plex: Con­tem­po­rary Halakhic Debates
Shlomo M. Brody
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A Phi­los­o­phy of Havru­ta: Under­stand­ing and Teach­ing the Art of Text Study in Pairs
Elie Holzer with Orit Kent
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Monastery
Eduardo Halfon; Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn, trans.
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After Birth
Elisa Albert
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A Guide to Jew­ish Prac­tice, Vol­ume 2: Shab­bat and Holidays
David A. Teutsch, ed.
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Jew­ish on Their Own Terms: How Inter­mar­ried Cou­ples Are Chang­ing Amer­i­can Judaism
Jennifer A. Thompson
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The Math­e­mati­cian’s Shiva
Stu­art Rojstaczer
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The Book of Job: A Biography
Mark Larrimore
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