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Nonfiction Inside the Torah: Narrative, Interpretation, and Mystical Meanings Rabbi Charna Klein
Nonfiction The Mussar Torah Commentary: A Spiritual Path to Living a Meaningful and Ethical Life Barry H. Block
Nonfiction Oranges for Eve: My Brave, Beautiful, Badass Journey to the Feminine Divine Tamara Kolton
Nonfiction Can Robots Be Jewish?: Inspirational Rabbis Answer Pressing Questions of Modern Life Amy E. Schwartz
‘Sacred Stories as Metaphor’: A Modern Retelling of Biblical Stories Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg August 19, 2019
Nonfiction A Year with Mordecai Kaplan: Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
Essay How Elie Wiesel Taught Me to Grapple with Difficult Religious Texts When a text disappoints us with an anti-human message, we will avoid the sin of premature forgiveness, of letting the text off the hook too easily. Ariel Burger February 26, 2019