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    Philosophy & Ethics

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    I Am Here Now
    Barbara Bottner
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    This Crazy Devotion
    Philip Ter­man
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    Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
    Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
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    The Sur­prise in the Desk
    Carol Ungar, Mira Simon (illustrator)
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    Chil­dren’s
    Lenny and Benny
    Naa­ma Benziman
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    Judaism’s Life-Chang­ing Ideas: A Week­ly Read­ing of the Hebrew Bible
    Jonathan Sacks
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    Tro­jan Horse
    S. Lee Manning
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    Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Chal­lenge to Israel
    Katell Berthelot
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    Inter­na­tion­al Jew­ish Human­i­tar­i­an­ism in the Age of the Great War
    Jaclyn Granick
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    Pow­er and Emo­tion in Ancient Judaism: Com­mu­ni­ty and Iden­ti­ty in Formation
    Ari Mermelstein
    Fiction—From the Journal

    The Real­ist

    Basia Wino­grad
    January 11, 2021
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    When a Home Is Not a Home

    Ona Rus­sell
    January 8, 2021
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    Think­ing about the Prophets: A Philoso­pher Reads the Bible
    Ken­neth Seeskin
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    Excerpt — The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement 

    Alan Kadish, Michael A. Shmidman, Sim­cha Fishbane
    November 23, 2020
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    Radi­ance: Cre­ative Mitz­vah Living
    Danny Siegel, Rabbi Neal Gold (ed.)
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    ‘Paths to For­give­ness’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Suzanne Nossel

    Marc Katz
    November 9, 2020
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