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Contemporary Jewish Life

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The Sacred Exchange: Cre­at­ing a Jew­ish Mon­ey Ethic
Mary L. Zamore
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Gina from Siberia
Jane Bern­stein
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The Oth­er Hand
Andrew Kane
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The Cast
Amy Blu­men­feld
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Kugel and Fri­joles: Lati­no Jews in the Unit­ed States
Lau­ra Limonic
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Glob­al Health Impacts of Nan­otech­nol­o­gy Law: A Tool for Stake­hold­er Engagement 
Ilise Feit­shans
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Wounds into Wis­dom: Heal­ing Inter­gen­er­a­tional Jew­ish Trauma
Tirzah Fire­stone
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Singer’s Type­writer and Mine: Reflec­tions on Jew­ish Culture
Ilan Sta­vans
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Super­man Is Jew­ish?: How Com­ic Book Super­heroes Came to Serve Truth, Jus­tice, and the Jew­ish-Amer­i­can Way
Har­ry Brod
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Esau’s Bless­ing: How the Bible Embraces Those with Spe­cial Needs
Ora Horn Prouser
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Devel­op­ment, Learn­ing, and Com­mu­ni­ty: Edu­cat­ing for Iden­ti­ty in Plu­ral­is­tic Jew­ish High Schools
Jeffrey S. Kress
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Make Your­self a Teacher: Rab­binic Tales of Men­tors and Disciples
Susan Handelman
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A Kosher Christ­mas: ​’Tis the Sea­son to Be Jewish
Joshua Eli Plaut; Jonathan D. Sarna, fwd.
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Dynam­ic Belong­ing: Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Col­lec­tive Identities
Harvey E. Goldberg, Steven M. Cohen, and Ezra Kopelowitz, eds.
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We Have Sinned: Sin and Con­fes­sion in Judaism: Asham­nu and Al Chet
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, ed.
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Jews and Words
Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
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