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Ritual & Practice

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Chil­dren’s
What’s in Tuli’s Box?
Ann D. Koffsky
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Chil­dren’s
Mon­ster Bar Mitzvah
Josh Ander­son
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Non­fic­tion
Stop Look Lis­ten: Cel­e­brat­ing Shab­bos Through a Spir­i­tu­al Lens
Nehemia Polen
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Non­fic­tion
The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlike­ly Jour­ney to the Promised Land
Gra­ciela Mochkofsky
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Rab­bis Rec­om­mend Books for the High Holidays

Simona Zaret­sky
September 19, 2022
Poetry

In the beginning

Paulette K. Fire
June 6, 2022
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Chil­dren’s
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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Jew­ish Text
Night of Begin­nings: A Passover Haggadah
Mar­cia Falk
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Jew­ish Text
The Ratio­nal Passover Haggadah
Den­nis Prager
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Jew­ish Text
Pic­tures Tell: A Passover Hag­gadah with pho­tographs from around the Jew­ish world
Zion Ozeri
Essay

Under­torah: Exca­vat­ing the Land­scape of Our Dreams

Jill Ham­mer
February 21, 2022
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Fic­tion
Detour Ahead
Pamela Ehren­berg
Tra­cy López 
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Non­fic­tion
A Fortress in Brook­lyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Mak­ing of Hasidic Williamsburg
Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
Essay

‘You Mean Super­sti­tions?’: Explor­ing the Cus­toms of Ortho­dox Jew­ish Women

Lind­sey Taylor-Guthartz
November 22, 2021
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I Had a Broth­er Once: A Mem­oir, a Poem
Adam Mans­bach
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