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    Modern Jewish Thought

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    In the Days of Sand and Stars
    Marlee Pinsker; Francois Thisdale, illus.
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    Over­com­ing Life’s Disappointments
    Harold S. Kushner
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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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    Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel: Essen­tial Writings
    Abraham Joshua Heschel; Susannah Heschel, ed.
    Cover of The Greening of American Orthodox Judaism: Yavneh in the 1960s
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    The Green­ing of Amer­i­can Ortho­dox Judaism: Yavneh in the 1960s
    Benny Kraut
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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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    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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    Jew­ish Ethics and the Care of End-of-Life Patients: A Col­lec­tion of Rab­bini­cal, Bioeth­i­cal, Philo­soph­i­cal, and Juris­tic Opinions
    Peter Joel Hurwitz, Jacques Picard, Avraham Steinberg, 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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    A Code of Jew­ish Ethics: Vol­ume I — You Shall Be Holy
    Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
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    To Heal a Frac­tured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
    Jonathan Sacks
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