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    Leonard A. Matanky

    Leonard A. Matanky, Ph.D., serves as asso­ciate super­in­ten­dent of the Asso­ci­at­ed Tal­mud Torahs of Chica­go, direc­tor of its Mor­ris and Rose Gold­man Com­put­er Depart­ment for Jew­ish Stud­ies, dean of Ida Crown Jew­ish Acad­e­my, and rab­bi of Con­gre­ga­tion K.I.N.S. of West Rogers Park (Chica­go).
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    Cover of Eyes to See: Recovering Ethical Torah Principles Lost in the Holocaust
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    Eyes to See: Recov­er­ing Eth­i­cal Torah Prin­ci­ples Lost in the Holocaust
    Rabbi Yom Tov Schwarcz; Avraham Leib Schwarcz, trans.
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    Jew­ish Maxwell Street Stories
    Shuli Eshel and Roger Schatz
    Cover of Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity and Freudian Slips in Genesis
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    Wrestling Jacob: Decep­tion, Iden­ti­ty and Freudi­an Slips in Genesis
    Shmuel Klitsner
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    Under­stand­ing the Tanya
    Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz; Yaacov David Shulman, trans.; Meir HaNegbi, ed.
    Cover of Studies in the Weekly Parashah, Based on the Lessons of Nehama Leibowitz
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    Stud­ies in the Week­ly Parashah, Based on the Lessons of Nehama Leibowitz
    Moshe Sakalow
    Cover of Vayaged Yehonatan, The Eybeshitz Hagaddah: Experiencing Redemption
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    Vayaged Yehonatan, The Eybeshitz Hagad­dah: Expe­ri­enc­ing Redemption
    Rabbi Shalom Hammer
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    Thoughts to Pon­der No. 2: Dar­ing Obser­va­tions About the Jew­ish Tradition
    Nathan Lopes Cardozo
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    Dig­ni­ty Beyond Death: The Jew­ish Prepa­ra­tion for Burial
    Rochel U. Berman; Rabbi Irving Greenberg, fwd.
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    Mai­monidean Stud­ies: Vol­ume 5
    Arthur Hyman, ed.
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    Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn E. Goodman, and James Allen Grady, eds.
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    Israel Drazin

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