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    Ritual & Practice

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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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    Mov­ing For­ward: An Ancient Divorce Rit­u­al for the Mod­ern World
    Mar­i­lyn Beloff
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    Hal­leli Naf­shi: A Week­day Sid­dur for Children
    Rabbi Amy Bardack; Rabbi Beth Naditch
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    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.
    Cover of The Jewish Home: A Guide to the Jewish Holidays and Life Cycles
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    The Jew­ish Home: A Guide to the Jew­ish Hol­i­days and Life Cycles
    Daniel B. Syme
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    The JPS Guide to Jew­ish Traditions
    Ronald L. Eisenberg
    Cover of Essential Readings on Jewish Identities: Lifestyles & Beliefs: Analyses of the Personal and Social Diversity of Jews by Modern Scholars
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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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    Kab­bal­at Shab­bat: Wel­com­ing Shab­bat in the Synagogue
    Lawrence A. Hoffman, ed.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Jew­ish Fes­ti­vals Through­out the Year
    Anita Ganeri
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    Kosher Liv­ing: It’s More Than Just the Food
    Ron Isaacs
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    Jew­ish With Feel­ing: A Guide to Mean­ing­ful Jew­ish Practice
    Zalman Schachter-Shalomi; Joel Segel
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    A Day Apart: Shab­bat at Home: A Step-by-Step Guide­book With Bless­ing and Songs, Rit­u­als and Reflections
    Noam Sachs Zion; Shawn Fields-Meyer
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    Around the Fam­i­ly Table: Songs and Prayers for the Jew­ish Home
    Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
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    Bar Mitz­vah, Bat Mitz­vah: Plan­ning the Per­fect Day
    Amy Nebens; Ellen Silverman and David Lewis Sternfeld, illus.
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