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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Returns and Exchanges
Yuri Kru­man
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Fic­tion
Spoils
Tam­mar Stein
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Kad­dish: Wom­en’s Voices
Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas
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Guid­ance, Not Gov­er­nance: Rab­bi Solomon B. Free­hof and Reform Responsa
Joan S. Friedman
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God Was in This Place & I, I Did Not Know: Find­ing Self, Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, and Ulti­mate Meaning
Lawrence Kushner
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Far From the Tree: Par­ents, Chil­dren and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon
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Jews in the Los Ange­les Mosaic
Karen S. Wilson, ed.
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Rela­tion­al Judaism: Using the Pow­er of Rela­tion­ships to Trans­form the Jew­ish Community
Dr. Ron Wolfson
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Jews of Today: A Primer on Hasidic Dress
Michael Levin
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Lovesong: Becom­ing a Jew
Julius Lester
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In the Neigh­bor­hood: The Search for Com­mu­ni­ty on an Amer­i­can Street, One Sleep­over at a Time
Peter Loven­heim
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Poi­son­ing the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Ander­son, and the Rise of Wash­ing­ton’s Scan­dal Culture
Mark Feld­stein
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The Chameleon in the Clos­et: A Con­ser­v­a­tive Jew­ish Moth­er Reach­es Out to Her Ortho­dox Sons
BJ Rosen­feld
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Sex­ism in Amer­i­ca: Alive, Well, and Ruin­ing Our Futur
Barbara J. Berg
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The Choos­ing: A Rab­bi’s Jour­ney from Silent Nights to High Holy Days
Andrea Myers
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Par­ent­less Par­ents: How the Loss of Our Moth­ers and Fathers Impacts the Way We Raise Our Children
Alli­son Gilbert
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