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    Stu­art Halpern

    Dr. Stu Halpern is Senior Advi­sor to the Provost of Yeshi­va Uni­ver­si­ty. He has edit­ed or coedit­ed 17 books, includ­ing Torah and West­ern Thought: Intel­lec­tu­al Por­traits of Ortho­doxy and Moder­ni­ty and Books of the Peo­ple: Revis­it­ing Clas­sic Works of Jew­ish Thought, and has lec­tured in syn­a­gogues, Hil­lels and adult Jew­ish edu­ca­tion­al set­tings across the U.S.

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    The State of Amer­i­can Jew­ry: New Insights and Scholarship
    Fred­er­ick E. Greenspahn
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    Ketubah Renais­sance: The Art­ful Mod­ern Revival of the Jew­ish Mar­riage Contract
    Michael Shapiro
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    Peo­ple of the Image: Jews and Art
    Marc Michael Epstein
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    The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
    Nir Ariel­li
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    The Civ­il War Diary of Emma Mordecai
    Dianne Ash­ton
    Melis­sa R. Klapper
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    A Promised Land: Jew­ish Patri­ots, the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion, and the Birth of Reli­gious Freedom
    Adam Jort­ner
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    Between the Bridge and the Bar­ri­cade: Jew­ish Trans­la­tion in Ear­ly Mod­ern Europe
    Iris Idel­son-Shein
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    Chaim Weiz­mann: A Biography
    Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani; Haim Watzman, trans.
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    The Guide to the Per­plexed: A New Translation
    Moses Maimonides; Lenn E. Goodman and Phillip I. Lieberman, trans.
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    A Guide to The Guide to the Per­plexed: A Reader’s Com­pan­ion to Mai­monides’ Masterwork
    Lenn E. Goodman
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    The Jew­ish Body: A History
    Robert Jütte, Elizabeth Bredeck (Translator)
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    The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Phil­an­thropic Com­plex: The His­to­ry of a Multi­bil­lion-Dol­lar Institution
    Lila Cor­win Berman
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    Esther’s Mag­i­cal Mys­tery Torah
    Rabbi Jonathan Leener, Jessica Tamar Deutsch (illus.)
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ish Thought Since 1934: Writ­ings on Iden­ti­ty, Engage­ment, and Belief
    Edited by Michael Marmur and David Ellenson 
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    Howard Mort­man

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    The Promise of Lib­er­ty: A Passover Haggada
    Stu­art Halpern
    Jacob Kupi­et­zky
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    Esther in America
    Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern (editor)
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    Glean­ings: Reflec­tions on Ruth
    Stu­art Halpern
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    Exo­dus and Amer­i­can His­to­ry: ​“The Promise of Liberty”

    Stu­art Halpern, Jacob Kupi­et­zky
    April 15, 2024
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    Excerpt: Esther in America

    Stu­art Halpern
    February 22, 2021
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    Excerpt — Glean­ings: Reflec­tions on Ruth

    A pre-Shavuot read

    Stu­art Halpern
    May 31, 2019

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