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    Cover of Leveling the Playing Field: Advancing Women in the Jewish Organizational Life
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    Lev­el­ing the Play­ing Field: Advanc­ing Women in the Jew­ish Orga­ni­za­tion­al Life
    Shifra Bronznick, Didi Goldenhar, and Marty Linksy
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: A JPS Guide
    Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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    City Guide Tel Aviv
    Dalit Nemirovsky
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ish Fic­tion: A JPS Guide
    Josh Lambert
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    The JPS Guide to Jew­ish Women
    Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry and Cheryl Tallan, eds.
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    Jew­ish Liv­ing: A Guide to Con­tem­po­rary Reform Prac­tice, Revised
    Mark Washofsky
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    How to Keep Kosher: A Com­pre­hen­sive Guide to Under­stand­ing Jew­ish Dietary Laws
    Lise Stern
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    How to Run a Tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish Household
    Blu Greenberg
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    The Kab­bal­ah Read­er: A Source­book of Vision­ary Judaism
    Edward Hoffman, ed.
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    Jew­ish U: A Con­tem­po­rary Guide for the Jew­ish Col­lege Stu­dent, Revised Edition
    Scott Aaron; Wayne L. Firestone, fwd.
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    Col­lege Knowl­edge for the Jew­ish Stu­dent: 101 Tips
    David Schoem
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    Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jew­ish Food
    Gil Marks
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    The Unit­ed States Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um Ency­clo­pe­dia of Camps and Ghet­tos, 1933 – 1945, Vol­ume 1
    Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed.
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    The War­saw Ghet­to Oyneg Shabes-Ringel­blum Archive Cat­a­logue and Guide
    Robert Moses Shapiro and Tadeusz Epstein, eds.
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    The Yad Vashem Ency­clo­pe­dia of the Ghet­tos Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Guy Miren, ed.
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    Inter­ac­tive Faith: The Essen­tial Inter­re­li­gious Com­mu­ni­ty-Build­ing Handbook
    Rev. Bud Heckman and Rori Picker Neiss, eds.
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