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    Wal­lace Greene

    Wal­lace Greene, Ph.D., has held sev­er­al uni­ver­si­ty appoint­ments, and cur­rent­ly writes and lec­tures on Jew­ish and his­tor­i­cal subjects.
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    Trans­form­ing Iden­ti­ty: The Rit­u­al Trans­for­ma­tion from Gen­tile to Jew-Struc­ture and Meaning
    Avi Sagi and Zvi Zohar
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    For the Love of God and Peo­ple: A Phi­los­o­phy of Jew­ish Law
    Elliot N. Dorff
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    Jew­ish Mys­ti­cism and Kab­bal­ah: New Insights and Scholarship
    Frederick E. Greenspahn, ed.
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    And From There You Shall Seek – Uvikkashtem Misham
    Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Naomi Goldblum, trans.
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    A Guide to Jew­ish Prac­tice: Vol­ume 1 — Every­day Living
    David A. Teutsch
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    How Judaism Became a Reli­gion: An Intro­duc­tion to Mod­ern Jew­ish Thought
    Leora Batnitzky
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    A Code of Jew­ish Ethics: Vol­ume 2 — Love Your Neigh­bor As Yourself
    Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
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    Cas­san­dra Mis­reads the Book of Samuel & Oth­er Untold Tales of the Prophets
    Gidon Rothstein
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    The Tal­mud: What It Is and What It Says
    Jacob Neusner
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    God, Prayer and Spirituality
    Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt
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    Canon With­out Clo­sure: Torah Commentaries
    Ismar Schorsch
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    Judaism: The Basics
    Jacob Neusner
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    Gold From the Land of Israel
    Rabbi Chanan Morrison
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    Rab­bi Jonathan Sack­’s Haggadah
    Jonathan Sacks
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    Ben: Son­ship and Jew­ish Mysticism
    Moshe Idel

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