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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Cel­e­brat­ing the Jew­ish Year: Win­ter Hol­i­days — Hanukkah, Tu B’She­vat, Purim
Paul Steinberg; Janet Greenstein Potter, ed.
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Liv­ing a Joy­ous Life: The True Spir­it of Jew­ish Practice
Rabbi David Aaron
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Just Say Nu: Yid­dish For Every Occa­sion (When Eng­lish Just Won’t Do)
Michael Wex
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Can I Have a Cell Phone For Hanukkah?
Sharon Duke Estroff
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Do You Believe?: Con­ver­sa­tions on God and Religion
Antonio Monda; Ann Goldstein, trans.
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Pirke Avot: Time­less Wis­dom for Mod­ern Life
William Berkson; Menachem Fisch, trans.
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Why Faith Matters
David J. Wolpe
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Wait­ing for God: The Spir­i­tu­al Explo­rations of a Reluc­tant Atheist
Lawrence Bush
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Har­vest of a Decade: Dis­raelia and Oth­er Essays
Walter Laqueur
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Jour­neys to a Jew­ish Life: Inspir­ing Sto­ries from the Spir­i­tu­al Jour­neys of Amer­i­can Jews
Paula Amann
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A Prophet­ic Peace: Judaism, Reli­gion and Politics
Alick Isaacs
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Spir­i­tu­al Activism: A Jew­ish Guide to Lead­er­ship and Repair­ing the World
Rabbi Avraham Weiss
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You Don’t Have To Be Wrong For Me To Be Right: Find­ing Faith With­out Fanaticism
Brad Hirschfield
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Please Excuse My Daughter
Julie Klam
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Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Jour­ney in Young Adult Identity
Leonard Saxe; Barry Chazan
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Bubbe Meis­es: Jew­ish Myths, Jew­ish Realities
Ronald H. Isaacs
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