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    Essays

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    The Wan­der­ing Womb: Essays in Search of Home
    S. L. Wisenberg
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    The Best Strangers in the World: Sto­ries from a Life Spent Listening
    Ari Shapiro
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    Salt & Hon­ey: Jew­ish Teens on Fem­i­nism, Cre­ativ­i­ty, and Tradition 
    Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib.
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    Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin
    Peter Orner
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    Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashe­vis Singer
    Isaac Bashevis Singer; David Stromberg, ed.
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    George Soros: A Life In Full
    Peter Osnos (Editor)
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    Lib­er­al and Illib­er­al Arts: Essays (Most­ly Jewish)
    Abraham Socher
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    ‘Mar­veling at How We Pulled Through’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Zib­by Owens

    Jessie Sza­lay
    April 26, 2021
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    Spilt Milk
    Court­ney Zoffness
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    Stargaz­ing in the Atom­ic Age: Essays
    Anne Gold­man
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    Judaism’s Life-Chang­ing Ideas: A Week­ly Read­ing of the Hebrew Bible
    Jonathan Sacks
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    To Be a Man
    Nicole Krauss
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    A Descend­ing Spi­ral: Expos­ing the Death Penal­ty in 12 Essays
    Marc Book­man
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    How Magi­cians Think: Mis­di­rec­tion, Decep­tion, and Why Mag­ic Matters
    Joshua Jay
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    Mishugas: Mus­ings on Things Jewish
    Lin­da Kaufman
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    Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids: A Time­less Anthology
    Zib­by Owens
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