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    Chris­tians & Jews in Dia­logue: Learn­ing in the Pres­ence of the Other
    Mary C. Boys; Sara S. Lee
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    The Chang­ing Face of Anti-Semi­tism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
    Walter Laqueur
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    God’s To-Do List: 103 Ways to be an Angel and do God’s Work on Earth
    Dr. Ron Wolfson
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    Over­com­ing Life’s Disappointments
    Harold S. Kushner
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    The Din in the Head: Essays
    Cyn­thia Ozick
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    Bryan Fogel; Sam Wolfson
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    Visu­al Arts
    A Time­less Peo­ple: Pho­to Album of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life
    Saul H. Landa
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    Wait­ing: Select­ed Nonfiction
    Elizabeth Swados
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    The Mod­ern Men’s Torah Com­men­tary: New Insights from Jew­ish Men on the 54 Week­ly Torah Portions
    Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, ed.
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    Emma Gold­man: Rev­o­lu­tion as a Way of Life
    Vivian Gornick
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    God of Our Under­stand­ing: Jew­ish Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty and Recov­ery from Addiction
    Rabbi Shais Taub
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    Kosher Chi­nese: Liv­ing, Teach­ing, and Eat­ing with Chi­na’s Oth­er Billion
    Michael Levy
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    Beyond the Façade: A Syn­a­gogue, A Restora­tion, A Legacy
    Larry Bortniker, Roberta Brandes Gratz, and Bonnie Dimun
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    Sin­ners on Tri­al: Jews and Sac­ri­lege after the Reformation
    Magda Teter
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    Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
    Shimon Peres with David Landau
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    Jew­ish Roots in South­ern Soil: A New History
    Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg, eds.
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