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Julie Pelc Adler

Julie Pelc Adler is a rab­bi and a co-edi­tor of the anthol­o­gy Join­ing the Sis­ter­hood: Young Jew­ish Women Write Their Lives (State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York Press, 2003). She is the assis­tant direc­tor of the Kals­man Insti­tute on Judaism and Health at HUC in Los Ange­les and also teach­es under­grad­u­ate cours­es in the Lit­er­a­ture and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Depart­ment at the Amer­i­can Jew­ish University.
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Women Remak­ing Amer­i­can Judaism
Riv-Ellen Prell, ed.; David Weinberg, fwd.
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Sur­prised by God: How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love Religion
Danya Rut­ten­berg
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A Jew­ish Wom­an’s Prayer Book
Aliza Lavie
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Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea L Weiss, eds.
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Torah Queeries: Week­ly Com­men­taries on the Hebrew Bible
Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser and David Shneer, eds.

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