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    Reli­gion and the Order of Nature
    Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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    To Life!: A Cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish Being and Thinking
    Harold S. Kushner
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    Between Sodom and Eden
    Lee Walzer
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    Peace, Jus­tice, and Jews: Reclaim­ing Our Tradition
    Stefan Merken and Murray Polner, eds.
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    A Wild Faith: Jew­ish Ways into Wilder­ness, Wilder­ness Ways into Judaism
    Rabbi Mike Comins
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    Trees, Earth and Torah: A Tu B’Sh­vat Anthology
    Ari Elon, Naomi Mara Hyman, Arthur Waskow, eds.
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    Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jew­ish Les­bians and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Tradition
    Rebecca Alpert
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    Nice Jew­ish Girls: A Les­bian Anthology
    Evelyn Torton
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    Judaism and Ecol­o­gy (A Hadas­sah Study Guide in Coop­er­a­tion with Shom­rei Adamah, Keep­ers of the Earth)
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    Pret­ty Is What Changes: Impos­si­ble Choic­es, The Breast Can­cer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
    Jessica Queller
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    Right­eous Indig­na­tion: A Jew­ish Call for Justice
    Or Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Margie Klein, eds.
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    How to Run a Tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish Household
    Blu Greenberg
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    Liv­ing a Jew­ish Life: Jew­ish Tra­di­tions, Cus­toms, and Val­ues for Today’s Fam­i­lies: Revised and Updated
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    Dr. Ron Wolfson
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