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Philosophy & Ethics

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Div­ing for Pearls: A Think­ing Jour­ney with Han­nah Arendt
Kath­leen Jones
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From Ene­my to Friend: Jew­ish Wis­dom and the Pur­suit of Peace
Amy Eil­berg
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Leo Strauss: Man of Peace
Robert Lloyd Howse
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The Last Inter­view: And Oth­er Conversations
Han­nah Arendt
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Mai­monides: Life and Thought
Moshe Halbertal
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On Writ­ing a Fic­tion­al­ized Account of Baruch Spin­oza­’s Family

Ear­li­er this week, Gabi Gle­ich­mann wrote about the gen­e­sis of his debut nov­el and his fas­ci­na­tion with read­ing and writ­ing. His debut nov­el, The Elixir of…
Gabi Gle­ich­mann
October 4, 2013
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Toward a Renewed Eth­ic of Jew­ish Philanthropy
Yossi Prager, ed.; Robert Hirt, series ed.
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Replace­ment Child
Judy L. Mandel
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Because All Is One
Ariel Stone
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The Lega­cy of Moses and Akhenaten
Sheldon Louis Lebold
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Wis­dom for Peo­ple of All Faiths
Evan Moff­ic
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Adiron­dack Mendel’s Aufruf: Wel­come to Chelm’s Pond
Sandor Schuman, illustrated by Kevin Kuhne
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Torah Of Reconciliation
Shel­don J. Lewis
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In Search of the Spir­i­tu­al: Gabriel Mar­cel, Psy­cho­analy­sis and the Sacred
Paul Marcus
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Lev­inas and the Cri­sis of Humanism
Claire Elise Katz
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Who Says You’re Dead: A Book of Med­ical Dilem­mas for the Curi­ous and Concerned
Jacob Appel
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