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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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    Les­bian Rab­bis: The First Generation
    Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson, eds.
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    Twice Blessed: On Being Les­bian or Gay and Jewish
    Christie Balka and Andy Rose, eds.
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    A Guide to Jew­ish Reli­gious Practice
    Isaac Klein
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    Kulanu (All of Us): A Pro­gram & Resource Guide for Gay, Les­bian, Bisex­u­al & Trans­gen­der Inclusion
    Richard F. Address, Joel L. Kushner, and Geoffrey Mitelman
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    Down-To-Earth Judaism: Food, Mon­ey, Sex, And The Rest Of Life
    Arthur Waskow
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    Queer The­o­ry and the Jew­ish Question
    Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini, eds.
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    Queer­ing the Text: Bib­li­cal, Medieval, and Mod­ern Jew­ish Stories
    Andrew Ramer
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    Wrestling with God and Men: Homo­sex­u­al­i­ty in the Jew­ish Tradition
    Steven Greenberg
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    The Book of Our Heritage
    Eliyahu Kitov
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    Torah Queeries: Week­ly Com­men­taries on the Hebrew Bible
    Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser and David Shneer, eds.
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    How to Run a Tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish Household
    Blu Greenberg
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    Liv­ing a Jew­ish Life: Jew­ish Tra­di­tions, Cus­toms, and Val­ues for Today’s Fam­i­lies: Revised and Updated
    Anita Diamant with Howard Cooper
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    Shab­bat: The Fam­i­ly Guide to Prepar­ing for and Wel­com­ing the Sabbath
    Dr. Ron Wolfson
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    Queer Jews
    David Shneer and Caryn Aviv, eds.
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    Bal­anc­ing on the Mechitza: Trans­gen­der in Jew­ish Community
    Noach Dzmura, ed.
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