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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Stranger in the Desert: A Fam­i­ly Story
    Jor­dan Salama
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    The 1970s Jew­ish Multiverse

    Don Fut­ter­man
    February 19, 2024
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    Excerpt — 100 Jew­ish Brides: Sto­ries from Around the World

    Bar­bara Vinick, Shu­lamit Reinharz
    February 12, 2024
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    Just One More Thing … and Then Bedtime
    Menahem Halberstadt; Romy Ronen, trans.
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    Jew­ish Board­ing Schools: The Sil­ly, the Seri­ous, the Sublime

    Alex Troy
    January 15, 2024
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    Absolute­ly, Pos­i­tive­ly Natty
    Lisa Green­wald
    Shab­bat
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    Ser­mons and ​‘Some­thing Pow­er­ful’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Sharon Brous

    Isado­ra Kianovsky 
    January 8, 2024
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    You Are Not a Guest
    Leela Cor­man
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    Chil­dren’s
    Two New Years
    Richard Ho; Lynn Scurfield, illus.
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    NightLife Lessons: Why I Wrote My First Busi­ness Book

    Shane Neman
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    The Let­ter A

    Alexan­dra Tyng
    December 6, 2023
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    Vis­it­ing Poland: Writ­ing about the Holocaust

    Lau­ren Grodstein
    December 5, 2023
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