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Contemporary Jewish Life

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We Plan, God Laughs: Ten Steps to Find­ing Your Divine Path When Life is Not Turn­ing Out Like You Wanted
Sherre Hirsch
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Bubbe Meis­es: Jew­ish Myths, Jew­ish Realities
Ronald H. Isaacs
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Dis­as­ter Spir­i­tu­al Care: Prac­ti­cal Cler­gy Respons­es to Com­mu­ni­ty, Region­al and Nation­al Tragedy
Stephen B. Roberts and Willard W.C. Ashley Sr., eds.
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Nev­erend­ing Par­ent­ing: Being a Mature Par­ent for Your Adult Child
Aaron Auerbach
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Cloth­ing Option­al: And Oth­er Ways to Read These Stories
Alan Zweibel
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The Bro­ken Amer­i­can Male: and How to Fix Him
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
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Cre­at­ing Live­ly Passover Seders: A Source­book of Engag­ing Tales, Texts and Activ­i­ties, Sec­ond Edition
David Arnow
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Around the Shab­bos Table
Seryl Berman; Ari Binus, illus.
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A Time to Every Pur­pose: Let­ters to a Young Jew
Jonathan D. Sarna
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Land­mark of the Spir­it: The Eldridge Street Synagogue
Annie Pollard; Bill Moyers, fwd.
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So Punk Rock (And Oth­er Ways to Dis­ap­point Your Mother)
Micol Ostow; David Ostow, illus.
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A Guide to Jew­ish Prac­tice: Vol­ume 1 — Every­day Living
David A. Teutsch
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Where We Find Our­selves: Jew­ish Women Around the World Write About Home
Miriam Ben-Yoseph and Deborah Nodler Rosen, eds.
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A Man’s Respon­si­bil­i­ty: A Jew­ish Guide to Being a Son, a Part­ner in Mar­riage, a Father and a Com­mu­ni­ty Leader
Rabbi Joseph Meszler
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Strict­ly Kosher Read­ing: Pop­u­lar Lit­er­a­ture and the Con­di­tion of Con­tem­po­rary Orthodoxy
Yoel Finkelman
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Not Your Father’s Anti­semitism: Hatred of the Jews in the 21st Century
Michael Berenbaum, ed.
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