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    Modern Jewish Thought

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    Search­ing for Martha Freud

    Daphne Merkin
    May 13, 2024
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    Liv­ing with Our Dead: On Loss and Consolation
    Del­phine Horvilleur; Lisa Appig­nane­si, trans.
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    The Holo­caust: An Unfin­ished History
    Dan Stone
    Essay

    Plagues and Hypothe­ses: Apply­ing Sci­ence to the Passover Story

    Jere­my Brown
    April 22, 2024
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    Hag­gadah High­lights 5784/2024

    Simona Zaret­sky
    April 12, 2024
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    Why Rain Comes from Above: Explo­rations in Reli­gious Imagination
    Devo­ra Steinmetz
    Essay

    The Ghost at the Feast: Writ­ing in the Shad­ow of Yiddish

    Toby Lloyd
    March 25, 2024
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    Judaism Is About Love: Recov­er­ing the Heart of Jew­ish Life
    Shai Held
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    The Neces­si­ty of Exile: Essays from a Dis­tance (Polit­i­cal Imagination)
    Shaul Magid
    Essay

    What Is Our Duty to the Envi­ron­ment? Ques­tions to Con­sid­er on Tu B’Shevat

    Joel Bur­cat
    January 22, 2024
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    Ser­mons and ​‘Some­thing Pow­er­ful’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Sharon Brous

    Isado­ra Kianovsky 
    January 8, 2024
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    Archi­tec­ture and Judaism: Under­stand­ing Our Built World through the Ages

    Joshua Skarf
    October 6, 2023
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    How the Tal­mud Can Change Your Life: Sur­pris­ing­ly Mod­ern Advice from a Very Old Book
    Liel Lei­bovitz
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    Tears of His­to­ry: The Rise of Polit­i­cal Anti­semitism in the Unit­ed States
    Pierre Birnbaum; Karen Santos Da Silva, trans.
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    My Family’s Vis­it to the West­ern Wall

    Eliz­a­beth L. Silver
    September 18, 2023
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    Thir­teen Jew­ish Writ­ers Share Their High Hol­i­day Read­ing Recommendations

    JBC Staff
    September 8, 2023
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