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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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Beau­ti­ful Souls
Eyal Press
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Shu­va: The Future of the Jew­ish Past
Yehu­da Kurtzer
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Unortho­dox: The Scan­dalous Rejec­tion of My Hasidic Roots
Deborah Feldman
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Philip Roth and the Jews
Alan Cooper
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Yid­dishe Mamas: The Truth about the Jew­ish Mother
Marnie Winston-Macauley
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A Sense of Direc­tion: Pil­grim­age for the Rest­less and the Hopeful
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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Sur­viv­ing Your Bar/​Bat Mitz­vah: The Ulti­mate Insid­er’s Guide
Matt Axel­rod
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Very Near to You: Human Read­ings of the Torah
Avra­ham Burg
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Why Is This Night Dif­fer­ent from All Oth­er Nights?: ​“The Four Ques­tions” Around the World
Ilana Kurshan; Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, intro.
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The Book of Job
Harold S. Kushner
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My Peo­ple’s Passover Hag­gadah: Tra­di­tion­al Texts, Mod­ern Com­men­taries Vol­ume 1
Lawrence A. Hoffman and David Arnow, eds.
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Seder Sto­ries: Passover Thoughts on Food, Fam­i­ly, and Freedom
Nancy Rips
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Am I a Jew?
Theodore Ross
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My Peo­ple’s Passover Hag­gadah: Tra­di­tion­al Texts, Mod­ern Com­men­taries Vol­ume 2
Lawrence A. Hoffman and David Arnow, eds.
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