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Items with the category:

Ritual & Practice

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Jew­it­namese

Nhi Aron­heim
May 19, 2021
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Excerpt: ​‘Thou Shalt Unplug’ from Inscribed

Tiffany Shlain
May 10, 2021
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Fic­tion
Sadie’s Shab­bat Stories
Melis­sa Stoller
Essay

Kad­dish for Covid Times

Nao­mi L. Baum
March 29, 2021
Essay

The Joy of Miss­ing Out

Tra­cy Brown
March 1, 2021
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Chil­dren’s
Sarah’s Solo
Tracy Brown, Paula Wegman (illus.)
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Jew­ish Text
Judaism’s Life-Chang­ing Ideas: A Week­ly Read­ing of the Hebrew Bible
Jonathan Sacks
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Non­fic­tion
Yeshi­va Days: Learn­ing on the Low­er East Side
Jonathan Boyarin
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Chil­dren’s
Esther Didn’t Dream of Being Queen
Allison Ofanansky, Valentina Belloni (illus.)
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Non­fic­tion
Seek­ers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rab­ba (The Great Assem­bly) of the Zohar 
Melila Hellner-Eshed
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Non­fic­tion
The Jew­ish Fam­i­ly Ethics Textbook
Neal Scheindlin
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Non­fic­tion
Becom­ing a Soul­ful Par­ent: A Path to the Wis­dom Within
Dasee Berkowitz
Essay

Lost in Translation

Esther Ami­ni
December 23, 2020
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Chil­dren’s
The Ninth Night of Hanukkah
Eri­ca S. Perl
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The Mik­vah

Daniela Weil
November 16, 2020
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Chil­dren’s
Becom­ing Brianna 
Ter­ri Libenson
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