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Nonfiction The Ladder of Jacob: Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children James L. Kugel
Nonfiction We’re Missing The Point:What’s Wrong With The Orthodox Jewish Community And How to Fix it Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein
Nonfiction Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis
Nonfiction Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law David M. Freidenreich
Nonfiction Defending the Human Spirit: Jewish law’s Vision For a Moral Society Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein
Nonfiction Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness Bernard Avishai
Nonfiction The JPS Commentary on the Haggadah: Historical Introduction, Translation, and Commentary Joseph Tabory; David Stern, fwd.
Nonfiction Wives Without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York 1900 – 1935 Anna R. Igra
Children’s The Family Book of Midrash: Fifty-Two Jewish Stories From the Sages Barbara Diamond Goldin
