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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Yearn­ings: Embrac­ing the Sacred Messi­ness of Life
Irwin Kula; Linda Loewenthal
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Wis­dom by the Week: The Week­ly Torah Por­tion as an Inspi­ra­tion for Thought and Creativity
Naftali Rothenberg, ed.
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Gonzo Judaism
Niles Elliot Goldstein
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The Big Book of Jew­ish Humor: 25th Anniver­sary Edition
William Novak; Moshe Waldoks, eds.
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What’s Up With the Hard Core Jew­ish People?
Margery Isis Schwartz
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Every Moth­er is a Daugh­ter: The Nev­erend­ing Quest for Suc­cess, Inner Peace, and a Real­ly Clean Kitchen
Perri Klass, Sheila Solomon Klass
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Rethink­ing Syn­a­gogues: A New Vocab­u­lary for Con­gre­ga­tion­al Life
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
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Vio­lent Acts and Urban Space in Con­tem­po­rary Tel Aviv
Tali Hatuka; Diane E. Davis, fwd.
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For­eign­ers and Their Food: Con­struct­ing Oth­er­ness in Jew­ish, Chris­t­ian, and Islam­ic Law
David M. Freidenreich
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Slid­ing to the Right: The Con­test for the Future of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Orthodoxy
Samuel C. Heilman
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Holy Unex­pect­ed: My New Life as a Jew
Robin Chotzinoff
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The Essen­tial Guide to Jew­ish Prayer and Practices
Andrea Lieber
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Oy! Only Six? Why Not More? Six-Word Mem­oirs on Jew­ish Life
Lar­ry Smith
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Explain­ing Life: The Wis­dom of Mod­ern Jew­ish Poet­ry, 1960 – 2010
Eleanor Ehrenkranz
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And the Bridge is Love
Faye Moskowitz
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Hot Mamalah: The Ulti­mate Guide for Every Woman of the Tribe
Lisa Alcalay Klug
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