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How I Learned to Embrace my Black and Jew­ish Heritage

Davon Loeb
January 24, 2023
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Invit­ed to Life: Find­ing Hope after the Holocaust
B. A. Van Sise
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Where You’ve Got to Be
Car­o­line Gertler
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Nuri and the Whale
Ronit Chacham; Moran Yogev, illus.
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The Dif­fer­ences Between Us

Arman­do Lucas Correa
January 9, 2023
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Bec­ca Kantor
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A Bril­liant Com­mod­i­ty: Dia­monds and Jews in a Mod­ern Setting
Saskia Coenen Snyder
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Salt & Hon­ey: Jew­ish Teens on Fem­i­nism, Cre­ativ­i­ty, and Tradition 
Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib.
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Kenden Alfond
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I Believe: A Week­ly Read­ing of the Jew­ish Bible
Jonathan Sacks
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Mendel’s Hanukkah Mess-Up
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Kenden Alfond
December 12, 2022
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JBC Staff
December 7, 2022
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