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    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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    The 12th Commandment
    Daniel Tor­day
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    I Believe: A Week­ly Read­ing of the Jew­ish Bible
    Jonathan Sacks
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    A Syn­a­gogue Just Like Home
    Alice Blumenthal McGinty; Laurel Molk, illus.
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    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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    What’s in Tuli’s Box?
    Ann D. Koffsky
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    Mon­ster Bar Mitzvah
    Josh Ander­son
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    Stop Look Lis­ten: Cel­e­brat­ing Shab­bos Through a Spir­i­tu­al Lens
    Nehemia Polen
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    The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlike­ly Jour­ney to the Promised Land
    Gra­ciela Mochkofsky
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    In the beginning

    Paulette K. Fire
    June 6, 2022
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    Sit­ting Shiva
    Erin Silver, Michelle Theodore (Illustrator)
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    Passover 5782/2022 Hag­gadah Roundup

    Jonathan Fass
    March 31, 2022
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    The Ratio­nal Passover Haggadah
    Den­nis Prager
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