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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Amus­ing the Angels
    Stew­art Florsheim
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    The Veg­an
    Andrew Lip­stein
    Essay

    Jew­ish Sun­day Schools: A Fem­i­nist History

    Lau­ra Yares
    July 31, 2023
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    Beni’s Tiny Tales: Around the Year in Jew­ish Holidays
    Jane Bre­skin Zalben
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    How Jew­ish­ness Comes and Goes

    Ben Purk­ert
    July 31, 2023
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    Siz­zle Reel
    Car­lyn Greenwald
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    Out and About: A Tale of Giving
    Liza Wiemer; Margeaux Lucas, illus.
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    Mon­ey, Moral­i­ty, and a ​‘Mis­trust of Lan­guage’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Andrew Lipstein

    Chloe Cheimets
    July 12, 2023
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    All-Night Phar­ma­cy
    Ruth Madievsky
    Essay

    Spend­ing a Fort­night in Jew Town, Kochi

    Shas­tri Akella
    July 10, 2023
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    Stand-Up Nation: Israeli Resilience in the Wake of Disaster
    Avi­va Klompas
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    Birchers: How the John Birch Soci­ety Rad­i­cal­ized the Amer­i­can Right
    Matthew Dallek
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    Golem Goes to Camp
    Todd Gutnick; Ruth Bennett, illus.
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    As I Said: A Dissent
    Abby Minor
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    On Writ­ing Jew­ish Protagonists

    Rachel Lynn Solomon
    June 30, 2023
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    Rachel Lynn Solomon
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