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Contemporary Jewish Life

Cover of Clothing Optional: And Other Ways to Read These Stories
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Cloth­ing Option­al: And Oth­er Ways to Read These Stories
Alan Zweibel
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The Bro­ken Amer­i­can Male: and How to Fix Him
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
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Hope, Not Fear: A Path to Jew­ish Renaissance
Edgar M. Bronfman with Beth Zasloff
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We Plan, God Laughs: Ten Steps to Find­ing Your Divine Path When Life is Not Turn­ing Out Like You Wanted
Sherre Hirsch
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Chil­dren’s
Around the Shab­bos Table
Seryl Berman; Ari Binus, illus.
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A Time to Every Pur­pose: Let­ters to a Young Jew
Jonathan D. Sarna
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Cre­at­ing Live­ly Passover Seders: A Source­book of Engag­ing Tales, Texts and Activ­i­ties, Sec­ond Edition
David Arnow
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So Punk Rock (And Oth­er Ways to Dis­ap­point Your Mother)
Micol Ostow; David Ostow, illus.
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Land­mark of the Spir­it: The Eldridge Street Synagogue
Annie Pollard; Bill Moyers, fwd.
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A Guide to Jew­ish Prac­tice: Vol­ume 1 — Every­day Living
David A. Teutsch
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A Man’s Respon­si­bil­i­ty: A Jew­ish Guide to Being a Son, a Part­ner in Mar­riage, a Father and a Com­mu­ni­ty Leader
Rabbi Joseph Meszler
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Strict­ly Kosher Read­ing: Pop­u­lar Lit­er­a­ture and the Con­di­tion of Con­tem­po­rary Orthodoxy
Yoel Finkelman
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Where We Find Our­selves: Jew­ish Women Around the World Write About Home
Miriam Ben-Yoseph and Deborah Nodler Rosen, eds.
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Anti­semet­ic Myths: A His­tor­i­cal and Con­tem­po­rary Anthology
Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer, eds.
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Anti-Semi­tism: A His­to­ry and Psy­cho­analy­sis of Con­tem­po­rary Hatred
Avner Falk
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Camp Camp
Roger Bennett and Jules Shell; Ivan Reitma, fwd.
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