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Modern Jewish Thought

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Smash­ing the Tablets: Rad­i­cal Retellings of the Hebrew Bible
Sara Lipp­mann
Seth Rogoff
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Faith’s Answers to Amer­i­ca’s Polit­i­cal Cri­sis: How Reli­gion Can Help Us Out of the Mess We’re In
Joe Lieber­man
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Burn­ing Psalms: Con­fronting Adon­ai after Auschwitz
Men­achem Z. Rosensaft
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Young Zion­ist Voic­es: A New Gen­er­a­tion Speaks Out
David Hazony
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The Torah of Leadership
Eri­ca Brown
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Psalms to Adon­ai from the Depths of the Holocaust

Men­achem Z. Rosensaft
January 13, 2025
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The Think­ing Heart: On Israel and Palestine
David Grossman; Jessica Cohen, trans.
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Yochanan’s Gam­ble: Judais­m’s Prag­mat­ic Approach to Life
Marc Katz
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Men­achem Mendel Schneer­son: Becom­ing the Messiah
Ezra Glin­ter
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Ethics at the Cen­ter: Jew­ish The­o­ry and Prac­tice for Liv­ing a Moral Life
Elliot N. Dorff
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Psy­cho­analy­sis and Wis­dom: Encoun­ter­ing ​‘Ethics of the Fathers’
Paul Mar­cus
The Triumph of Life
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The Tri­umph of Life: A Nar­ra­tive The­ol­o­gy of Judaism
Irv­ing Greenberg
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Tra­di­tion in an Untra­di­tion­al Age
Jonathan Sacks
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We Are Free to Change the World: Han­nah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
Lyn­d­sey Stonebridge
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Com­mu­ni­ties of Mean­ing: Con­ver­sa­tions on Mod­ern Jew­ish Life Inspired by Rab­bi Lar­ry Hoffman
Joseph A. Skloot and Lisa J. Grushcow, eds. 
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On the Couch: Writ­ers Ana­lyze Sig­mund Freud
Andrew Blauner, ed.
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