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Philosophy & Ethics

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Mai­monides: Life and Thought
Moshe Halbertal
Essay

On Writ­ing a Fic­tion­al­ized Account of Baruch Spin­oza­’s Family

Ear­li­er this week, Gabi Gle­ich­mann wrote about the gen­e­sis of his debut nov­el and his fas­ci­na­tion with read­ing and writ­ing. His debut nov­el, The Elixir of…
Gabi Gle­ich­mann
October 4, 2013
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Toward a Renewed Eth­ic of Jew­ish Philanthropy
Yossi Prager, ed.; Robert Hirt, series ed.
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Replace­ment Child
Judy L. Mandel
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Because All Is One
Ariel Stone
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The Lega­cy of Moses and Akhenaten
Sheldon Louis Lebold
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Wis­dom for Peo­ple of All Faiths
Evan Moff­ic
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Adiron­dack Mendel’s Aufruf: Wel­come to Chelm’s Pond
Sandor Schuman, illustrated by Kevin Kuhne
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Torah Of Reconciliation
Shel­don J. Lewis
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In Search of the Spir­i­tu­al: Gabriel Mar­cel, Psy­cho­analy­sis and the Sacred
Paul Marcus
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Lev­inas and the Cri­sis of Humanism
Claire Elise Katz
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Who Says You’re Dead: A Book of Med­ical Dilem­mas for the Curi­ous and Concerned
Jacob Appel
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Men­sch-Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi―Wisdom for Unteth­ered Times
Joshua Ham­mer­man
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Design­ing Babies: How Tech­nol­o­gy is Chang­ing the Ways We Cre­ate Children
Robert Klitz­man
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Jew­ish-Chris­t­ian Dia­logues on Scrip­ture in Late Antiquity
Michal Bar-Asher Siegel
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Team Human
Dou­glas Rushkoff
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