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Torah & Text

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How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scrip­ture, Then and Now
James L. Kugel
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Tal­mud Study in Yeshi­va High Schools
Aharon Lichtenstein & Yehuda Brandes; Jeffrey Saks ed.
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Midrash Man­i­cures: The Torah on Your Tips

Post­ed by Sharon B.For­get those lit­tle flow­ers you used to get paint­ed on your pinkie when you were nine– join the big leagues of man­i­cure mania with Rab­bi Yael Buech­ler…
Sharon Bruce
December 7, 2011
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Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilar­i­ous, Dis­turb­ing, Mar­velous, and Inspir­ing Things I Learned When I Read Every Sin­gle Word of the Bible
David Plotz
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Canon With­out Clo­sure: Torah Commentaries
Ismar Schorsch
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Water From the Well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah
Anne Roiphe
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Hills of Spices: Poet­ry From the Bible
Rena Potok, ed.
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Gen­e­sis – The Book with Sev­en­ty Faces: A Guide for the Family
Esther Takac; Anna Pignataro, illus.
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Hous­es of Study: A Jew­ish Woman Among Books
Ilana M. Blumberg
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Green Bible Sto­ries for Children
Tami Lehman-Wilzig; Dura Yael Bernhard, illus.
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Round and Round the Jew­ish Year: Vol­ume 4 Iyar-Av
Tzipora Rosenberg; Ruth Beifus, illus.
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The Inven­tion of Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty: Bible, Phi­los­o­phy, and the Art of Translation
Aaron H. Hughes
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The Serpent’s Skin: Cre­ation, Knowl­edge, and Inti­ma­cy in the Book of Genesis
Marc Klein
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Becom­ing the Peo­ple of the Tal­mud: Oral Torah as Writ­ten Tra­di­tion in Medieval Jew­ish Cultures
Talya Fishman
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The Tal­mud: A Selection
Norman Solomon, trans. and ed.
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The Pas­sion­ate Torah: Sex and Judaism
Danya Ruttenberg, ed.
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