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Fic­tion
The 12th Commandment
Daniel Tor­day
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Fic­tion
Leav­ing East­ern Parkway
Matthew Daub
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Fic­tion
Abom­i­na­tion
Ash­ley Goldberg
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Fic­tion
An Obser­vant Wife: A Novel
Nao­mi Ragen
Essay

My First Sequel: The Love Sto­ry of ​‘An Unortho­dox Match’ Continued

Nao­mi Ragen
September 6, 2021
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Be like The Moon: a Chas­sidic Memoir
Levi Wel­ton
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OY! OY! OY! The Teacher is a Goy
Hen­ry Saltzman
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Hid­den Heretics: Jew­ish Doubt in a Dig­i­tal Age
Ayala Fad­er
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Non­fic­tion
Becom­ing Eve 
Abby Stein
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Fic­tion
On Divi­sion: A Novel
Goldie Gold­bloom
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Fic­tion
The Orchard
David Hopen
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Fic­tion
An Unortho­dox Match
Nao­mi Ragen
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The Rab­bi Saved by Hitler’s Soldiers
Bryan Mark Rigg
Essay

Hijack­ing the Lan­guage of Holiness

Alden Solovy is the author of Jew­ish Prayers of Hope and Heal­ing , a book of orig­i­nal litur­gy in Hebrew and Eng­lish. In April 2015 he was bru­tal­ly attacked…
Alden Solovy
March 17, 2016
Essay

Kol Isha — A Voice for Every Woman

Rab­bi Sara Bran­des is the author of Mag­i­cal World: Sto­ries, Reflec­tions, Poems. Invit­ed to weigh in on recent devel­op­ments at the Kotel, the West­ern Wall of Jerusalem’s…
Sara Bran­des
March 16, 2016
Interview

Inter­view: Nao­mi Ragen

by Elise Coop­erThe Dev­il in Jerusalem is a ter­ri­fy­ing thriller, but even more upset­ting is that this sto­ry was based on a true event. It explores the hor­rif­ic…
Elise Coop­er
October 15, 2015
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