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Rabbis, Detectives, and Twenty-Nine Witches: How the Jewish Books of My Childhood Taught Me about Mysticism

Rivka Galchen

October 31, 2022

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Eight Nights of Flirting

Hannah Reynolds

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The Topsy-Turvy Bus

Anita Fitch Pazner

Essay

The Untold History of Adoption Before Roe

Gabrielle Glaser

October 24, 2022

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Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

Essay

Pluralism’s Paradox

Emily Tamkin

October 17, 2022

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Cover of Signal Fires

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Don’t Worry, Just Cook: Delicious, Timeless Recipes for Comfort and Connection

Bonnie Stern and Anna Rupert

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Attack of the Black Rectangles

Essay

The Door Knock, Revisited

Jen Maxfield

September 27, 2022

Excerpt

Excerpt: Koshersoul

Michael W. Twitty

September 26, 2022

Cover of On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

Danya Ruttenberg

Recommended Reading

Rabbis Recommend Books for the High Holidays

Simona Zaretsky

September 19, 2022

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Dance the Hora, Isadora

Gloria Koster; Barbara Bongini, illus.

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Those Summer Nights

Laura Silverman