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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Excerpt —I Could Nosh: Clas­sic Jew-ish Recipes Revamped for Every Day

    Jake Cohen
    September 12, 2023
    Cover of The Majority: A Novel
    Fic­tion
    The Major­i­ty: A Novel
    Eliz­a­beth L. Silver
    Interview

    “For­ev­er Thir­teen”: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Aman­da Stern

    Michal Hoschan­der Malen
    September 6, 2023
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Gray
    Chris Baron
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    Cook­book
    Shab­bat: Recipes and Rit­u­als from My Table to Yours
    Adeena Suss­man
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    Chil­dren’s
    Tzimmes for Tzipporah
    Megan Hoyt; Christine Battuz, illus.
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    Leav­ing Bacon Behind: A How to Guide to Jew­ish Conversion
    Melvin S. Marsh
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    Tikkun Ha’am: Repair­ing Our People
    Jef­frey K. Salkin
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    From the West to the East: A Mem­oir of a Lib­er­al Amer­i­can Rabbi
    John L. Rosove
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    Sup­ple­men­tal Needs
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    Unteth­ered
    Ruth Rakoff
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    Good Work, Grit & Grat­i­tude: The Bit­ter­sweet Lessons of the Lemon­ade Generation
    Adri­an Dubow
    Lau­ra Koffsky
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    Swim­ming to Jerusalem
    Seth Born­stein
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    A Path to Jew­ish Survival
    Richard B. Stanger
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    Debra Green
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    Bar­bara Kimmel
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