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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Jew­ish Val­ues in a Chang­ing World
Rabbi Yehuda Amital
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From Lok­shen to Lo Mein: The Jew­ish Love Affair With Chi­nese Food
Donald Siegel
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To Heal a Frac­tured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Jonathan Sacks
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Reli­gion and the Order of Nature
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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To Life!: A Cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish Being and Thinking
Harold S. Kushner
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Between Sodom and Eden
Lee Walzer
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Peace, Jus­tice, and Jews: Reclaim­ing Our Tradition
Stefan Merken and Murray Polner, eds.
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Trees, Earth and Torah: A Tu B’Sh­vat Anthology
Ari Elon, Naomi Mara Hyman, Arthur Waskow, eds.
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A Wild Faith: Jew­ish Ways into Wilder­ness, Wilder­ness Ways into Judaism
Rabbi Mike Comins
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Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jew­ish Les­bians and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Tradition
Rebecca Alpert
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Nice Jew­ish Girls: A Les­bian Anthology
Evelyn Torton
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Judaism and Ecol­o­gy (A Hadas­sah Study Guide in Coop­er­a­tion with Shom­rei Adamah, Keep­ers of the Earth)
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Pret­ty Is What Changes: Impos­si­ble Choic­es, The Breast Can­cer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
Jessica Queller
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Right­eous Indig­na­tion: A Jew­ish Call for Justice
Or Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Margie Klein, eds.
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Judaism and Ecol­o­gy: Cre­at­ed World and Revealed Word
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, ed.
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Promise Me: How a Sis­ter’s Love Launched the Glob­al Move­ment to End Breast Cancer
Nancy G. Brinker
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