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Ritual & Practice

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Inter­nal Dia­logue: The Days of Awe 5775

Post­ed by Nat Bern­stein.Prayer doesn’t come eas­i­ly to every­one. Whether one con­sid­ers one­self reli­gious, spir­i­tu­al, obser­vant, or curi­ous, find­ing that opti­mum of…
Nat Bern­stein
September 22, 2014
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Jew­ish Prayers of Hope and Healing
Alden Solovy
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The Days Between: Bless­ings, Poems, and Direc­tions of the Heart for the Jew­ish High Hol­i­day Season
Mar­cia Falk
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Did Jew Know?: A Handy Primer on the Cus­toms, Cul­ture & Prac­tice of the Cho­sen People
Emi­ly Stone
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Jew­ish Men Pray: Words of Yearn­ing, Praise, Peti­tion, Grat­i­tude and Won­der from Tra­di­tion­al and Con­tem­po­rary Sources
Kerry M. Olitzky & Stuart M. Matlins, eds.
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Kad­dish: Wom­en’s Voices
Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas
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May God Remem­ber — Yizkor: Mem­o­ry and Memo­ri­al­iz­ing in Judaism (Prayers of Awe)
Lawrence A. Hoffman
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Dav­en­ing: A Guide to Mean­ing­ful Jew­ish Prayer
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Joel Segel; Kushner, fwd.
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Mov­ing For­ward: An Ancient Divorce Rit­u­al for the Mod­ern World
Mar­i­lyn Beloff
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Amer­i­can Jew­Bu: Jews, Bud­dhists, and Reli­gious Change
Emily Sigalow
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Cer­e­mo­ni­al Syn­a­gogue Textiles
Bracha Yaniv
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Hal­leli Naf­shi: A Week­day Sid­dur for Children
Rabbi Amy Bardack; Rabbi Beth Naditch
Essay

For the Sake of Unification

Ear­li­er this week, Lisa Alcalay Klug wrote about a sur­pris­ing dis­cov­ery in Nach­laot and about how her work is informed by her father’s expe­ri­ences dur­ing the…
Lisa Alcalay Klug
November 2, 2012
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Liv­ing Jew­ish­ly: A Snap­shot of a Generation
Stefanie Pervos Bregman, ed.
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Essen­tial Read­ings on Jew­ish Iden­ti­ties: Lifestyles & Beliefs: Analy­ses of the Per­son­al and Social Diver­si­ty of Jews by Mod­ern Scholars
Stanford Lyman, ed.
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The Jew­ish Home: A Guide to the Jew­ish Hol­i­days and Life Cycles
Daniel B. Syme
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