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    Feast of Famine

    Lau­ren Shock­ey is the author of Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burn­er in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris. She offered thoughts on Yom Kip­pur and break fast…
    Lau­ren Shockey
    October 10, 2011
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Tale of Two Seders
    Mindy Avra Portnoy; Valerio Cis, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Dear Tree
    Doba Rivka Weber; Phyllis Saroff, illus.
    Cover of Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale
    Chil­dren’s
    Cakes and Mir­a­cles: A Purim Tale
    Barbara Diamond Goldin; Jaime Zollars, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Light the Menorah
    Jannie Ho, illus.
    Cover of Passover: Celebrating Now, Remembering Then
    Chil­dren’s
    Passover: Cel­e­brat­ing Now, Remem­ber­ing Then
    Harriet Ziefert; Karla Gudeon, illus.
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Jew­ish Way: Liv­ing the Holidays
    Irv­ing Greenberg
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    Non­fic­tion
    Jew­ish Hol­i­days: A Brief Intro­duc­tion for Christians
    Rabbi Kerry Olitzky and Rabbi Daniel Judson
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    Chil­dren’s
    Hanukkah at Val­ley Forge
    Steven Krensky; Greg Harlin, illus.
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    Repen­tance: The Mean­ing and Prac­tice of Teshuvah
    Dr. Louis E. Newman
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    Who by Fire, Who by Water: Un’­Tanch Tokef
    Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, ed.
    Essay

    Cast­ing Off

    Stu­art Nadler​’s first book, The Book of Life, is now avail­able. He will be blog­ging all week for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.For me, the year has always…
    Stu­art Nadler
    September 26, 2011
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    Cook­book
    The Veg­e­tar­i­an Shab­bat Cookbook
    Roberta Kalechofsky and Roberta Schiff
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    An Adven­ture in Latkaland
    Karen Fisman; Thomas McAteer, illus.
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    Hop­py Hanukkah
    Linda Glaser; Daniel Howarth, illus.
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    A Trea­sury of Jew­ish Hol­i­day Bak­ing: The 10th Anniver­sary Edition
    Marcy Goldman
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