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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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    Bubbe Meis­es: Jew­ish Myths, Jew­ish Realities
    Ronald H. Isaacs
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    Dis­as­ter Spir­i­tu­al Care: Prac­ti­cal Cler­gy Respons­es to Com­mu­ni­ty, Region­al and Nation­al Tragedy
    Stephen B. Roberts and Willard W.C. Ashley Sr., eds.
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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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    Around the Shab­bos Table
    Seryl Berman; Ari Binus, illus.
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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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    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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    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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    Anti-Semi­tism: A His­to­ry and Psy­cho­analy­sis of Con­tem­po­rary Hatred
    Avner Falk
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