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    New Amer­i­can Haggadah
    Jonathan Safran Foer, ed.; Nathan Englander, trans.
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    Man Seeks God: My Flir­ta­tions with the Divine
    Eric Wein­er
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    Bread and Fire: Jew­ish Women Find God in the Everyday
    Rivkah Slonim, ed.; Liz Rosenberg, consulting ed.
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    Tak­ing the Plunge: A Prac­ti­cal and Spir­i­tu­al Guide to the Mikveh
    Miriam C. Berkowitz
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    Women Remak­ing Amer­i­can Judaism
    Riv-Ellen Prell, ed.; David Weinberg, fwd.
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    Crav­ing the Divine: A Spir­i­tu­al Guide for Today’s Perplexed
    Niles Elliot Goldstein
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    Rejoice in Your Fes­ti­vals: Pen­e­trat­ing Insights Into Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot
    Rabbi Zvi Dov Kanatopsky; David A. Zomick, ed.
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    For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book
    Ali­cia Ostriker
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    The Catholic Church and the Jew­ish Peo­ple: Recent Reflec­tions from Rome
    Philip A. Cunningham, Norbert J. Hofmann, and Joseph Sievers, eds.
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    Jews and Europe in the Twen­ty-First Cen­tu­ry: Think­ing Jewish
    Nick Lambert; David Cesarani, fwd.
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    Star­ing at the Sun: Over­com­ing the Ter­ror of Death
    Irvin D. Yalom
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    The Home We Build Togeth­er: Recre­at­ing Society
    Jonathan Sacks
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    What­ev­er It Is, I Don’t Like It
    Howard Jacob­son
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    Redemp­tions: Con­tem­po­rary Chas­sidic Essays on the Par­sha and the Festivals
    Rabbi Zvi Leshem
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    Judaism in Con­tem­po­rary Context
    Jacob Neusner
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    Bar Mitz­vah, Bat Mitz­vah: The Cer­e­mo­ny, the Par­ty, and How the Day Came to Be
    Bert Metter; Joan Reilly, illus.
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