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Modern Jewish Thought

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Water From the Well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah
Anne Roiphe
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Chil­dren’s
In the Days of Sand and Stars
Marlee Pinsker; Francois Thisdale, illus.
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Gold From the Land of Israel
Rabbi Chanan Morrison
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Jews and Judaism in the 21st Century
Edward Feinstein, ed.
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Over­com­ing Life’s Disappointments
Harold S. Kushner
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Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel: Essen­tial Writings
Abraham Joshua Heschel; Susannah Heschel, ed.
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The Inven­tion of Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty: Bible, Phi­los­o­phy, and the Art of Translation
Aaron H. Hughes
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The Serpent’s Skin: Cre­ation, Knowl­edge, and Inti­ma­cy in the Book of Genesis
Marc Klein
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In the Val­ley of the Shadow
James L. Kugel
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Mai­monides and His Heritage
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn E. Goodman, and James Allen Grady, eds.
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The Syn­a­gogue in Amer­i­ca: A Short History
Marc Lee Raphael
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The Green­ing of Amer­i­can Ortho­dox Judaism: Yavneh in the 1960s
Benny Kraut
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On The Road With Rab­bi Steinsaltz
Arthur Kurzweil
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Eman­ci­pa­tion Through Mus­cles: Jews and Sports in Europe
Michael Brenner; Gideon Reuveni, eds.
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David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the West­ern Tradition
Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman
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Heav­en­ly Torah as Refract­ed Through the Generations
Abraham Joshua Heschel; Gordon Tucker and Leonard Levin, eds. and trans.
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