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    David Plotz: Why Is Judaism Such a Failure?

    In his last blog, David Plotz, author of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilar­i­ous, Dis­turb­ing, Mar­velous, and Inspir­ing Things I Learned When I Read Every Sin­gle…
    David Plotz
    July 17, 2009
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    A Mod­ern Men’s Torah Commentary

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterDebra Nuss­baum Cohen post­ed on the For­ward​‘s Sis­ter­hood Blog this week about a forth­com­ing book from Jew­ish Lights…
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    Tablet on Yoel Hoffmann

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterTablet fea­tured this week’s Jew­ish Book Coun­cil rec­om­mend­ed read (sign up for our week­ly e‑mails here) Cur­ricu­lum…
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    July 16, 2009
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    Borges and the Jews

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterJorge Luis BorgesYes­ter­day Zeek at Jew­cy post­ed the final sec­tion of Ilan Sta­vans’ mono­graph on Borges and the Jews:In this,…
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    July 16, 2009
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    David Plotz: Is Monothe­ism for Jerks?

    David Plotz is guest-blog­ging for MyJew­ish­Learn­ing and the Jew­ish Book Council.There are the writ­ers who suc­ceed by argu­ing evo­lu­tion exists and God…
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    July 15, 2009
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    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterJew­ish lit­er­a­ture is deep into a renais­sance. Jew­ish books and Jew­ish authors are no longer eth­nic tokens on a larg­er…
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    July 14, 2009
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