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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 Rabbi’s Brain: Mys­tics, Mod­erns and the Sci­ence of Jew­ish Thinking
    Dr. Andrew Newberg & Dr. David Halpern
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    Menasseh ben Israel: Rab­bi of Amsterdam
    Steven Nadler
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    Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Sto­ry of a Sen­sa­tion­al British Mur­der, a Quest for Jus­tice, and the World’s Most Famous Detec­tive Writer
    Mar­galit Fox
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    The New Amer­i­can Judaism: How Jews Prac­tice Their Reli­gion Today
    Jack Wertheimer
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    Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Lega­cy of the Six-Day War
    Micah Goodman; Eylon Levy, trans.
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    Glob­al Jew­ish Food­ways: A History
    Hasia R. Diner & Simone Cinotto, ed.; Carlo Petrini, foreword
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    Rise and Kill First: The Secret His­to­ry of Israel’s Tar­get­ed Assassinations
    Ronen Bergman
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    Turn­ing Points in Jew­ish History
    Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein
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    With Lib­er­ty and Jus­tice: The Fifty Day Jour­ney from Egypt to Sinai
    Senator Joe Lieberman and Rabbi Ari D. Kahn
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    From For­bid­den Fruit to Milk and Hon­ey: A Com­men­tary on Food in the Torah
    Diana Lipton
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    Hasidism: A New History
    David Biale et al
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    Etrog: How a Chi­nese Fruit Became a Jew­ish Symbol
    David Z. Moster
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    The Heart of Torah, Vol­ume 2
    Shai Held
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    A Remem­brance of His Won­ders: Nature and the Super­nat­ur­al in Medieval Ashkenaz
    David I. Shyovitz
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    The Heart of Torah, Vol­ume 1
    Shai Held

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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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