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    Cover of Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today
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    Being Jew­ish: The Spir­i­tu­al and Cul­tur­al Prac­tice of Judaism Today
    Ari L. Goldman
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    Sav­ing Israel: How the Jew­ish Peo­ple Can Win a War That May Nev­er End
    Daniel Gordis
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    Sur­prised by God: How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love Religion
    Danya Rut­ten­berg
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    Rosh Hashanah Read­ings: Inspi­ra­tion, Infor­ma­tion, Contemplation
    Dov Peretz Elkins
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    Traces of God: See­ing God in Torah, His­to­ry and Every­day Life
    Neil Gillman
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    Dic­tio­nary of Jew­ish Words
    Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic
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    Some­where in Germany
    Stefanie Zweig; Marlies Comjean, trans.
    Cover of Meaning & Mitvah: Daily Practices for Reclaiming Judaism Through Prayer, God, Torah, Hebrew,Mitzvot and Peoplehood
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    Mean­ing & Mit­vah: Dai­ly Prac­tices for Reclaim­ing Judaism Through Prayer, God, Torah, Hebrew,Mitzvot and Peoplehood
    Goldie Mil­gram
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    The Gen­e­sis of Lead­er­ship: What the Bible Teach­es Us About Vision, Val­ues and Lead­ing Change
    Nathan Laufer
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    Inspired Jew­ish Lead­er­ship: Prac­ti­cal Approach­es to Build­ing Strong Communities
    Erica Brown
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    From Sanc­tu­ary to Board­room: A Jew­ish Approach to Leadership
    Hal M. Lewis
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    New Jew­ish Fem­i­nism: Prob­ing the Past, Forg­ing the Future
    Elyse Goldstein, ed.
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    On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition
    Blu Greenberg
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    A Code of Jew­ish Ethics: Vol­ume I — You Shall Be Holy
    Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
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    From Lok­shen to Lo Mein: The Jew­ish Love Affair With Chi­nese Food
    Donald Siegel
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    To Heal a Frac­tured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
    Jonathan Sacks
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