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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jew­ish Les­bians and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Tradition
Rebecca Alpert
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Nice Jew­ish Girls: A Les­bian Anthology
Evelyn Torton
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Judaism and Ecol­o­gy (A Hadas­sah Study Guide in Coop­er­a­tion with Shom­rei Adamah, Keep­ers of the Earth)
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Pret­ty Is What Changes: Impos­si­ble Choic­es, The Breast Can­cer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
Jessica Queller
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Right­eous Indig­na­tion: A Jew­ish Call for Justice
Or Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Margie Klein, eds.
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Judaism and Ecol­o­gy: Cre­at­ed World and Revealed Word
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, ed.
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Promise Me: How a Sis­ter’s Love Launched the Glob­al Move­ment to End Breast Cancer
Nancy G. Brinker
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Les­bian Rab­bis: The First Generation
Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson, eds.
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Twice Blessed: On Being Les­bian or Gay and Jewish
Christie Balka and Andy Rose, eds.
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Queer Jews
David Shneer and Caryn Aviv, eds.
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Queer The­o­ry and the Jew­ish Question
Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini, eds.
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Queer­ing the Text: Bib­li­cal, Medieval, and Mod­ern Jew­ish Stories
Andrew Ramer
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Wrestling with God and Men: Homo­sex­u­al­i­ty in the Jew­ish Tradition
Steven Greenberg
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The Book of Our Heritage
Eliyahu Kitov
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Torah Queeries: Week­ly Com­men­taries on the Hebrew Bible
Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser and David Shneer, eds.
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How to Run a Tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish Household
Blu Greenberg
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