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Ritual & Practice

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Chil­dren’s
Shoshi’s Shab­bat
Caryn Yacowitz; Kevin Hawkes, illus.
Essay

Shab­bat: A Jour­ney of Per­son­al and Glob­al Discovery

War­ren Goldstein
June 26, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
Judaism Dis­rupt­ed: A Spir­i­tu­al Man­i­festo for the 21st Century
Michael Strass­feld
Essay

Dis­rupt­ing Judaism: Mod­ern Prac­tices in the Making

Michael Strass­feld
May 22, 2023
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Fic­tion
The House of Love and Prayer: and Oth­er Stories
Tova Reich
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Jew­ish Text
Yedid Nefesh Haggadah
Joshua Cahan
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Taste & See: Psy­che­del­ic Pesach Zine
Madison Margolin, Eden Pearlstein, and Ami Silver; Jessica Tamar Deutsch, illus.
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Jew­ish Text
Empow­er­ing Seder Con­ver­sa­tions Passover Haggadah
Eitan Ashman; Contemporary Jewish Voices
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Chil­dren’s
Deb­bie’s Song
Ellen Leventhal; Natalia Grebtsova, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
An Invi­ta­tion to Passover
Rabbi Kerry Olitzky and Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen; Mariia Kolker, illus.
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Excerpt: The 12th Commandment

Daniel Tor­day
January 16, 2023
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Fic­tion
The 12th Commandment
Daniel Tor­day
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Jew­ish Text
I Believe: A Week­ly Read­ing of the Jew­ish Bible
Jonathan Sacks
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Chil­dren’s
A Syn­a­gogue Just Like Home
Alice Blumenthal McGinty; Laurel Molk, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
Awe-some Days: Poems about the Jew­ish Holidays
Marilyn Singer; Dana Wulfekotte, illus.
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The Life and Crimes of Hood­ie Rosen
Isaac Blum
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