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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Stud­ies in Spirituality
    Jonathan Sacks
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    A Book Hap­pened Around Me: Writ­ing ​‘These Are the Devel­op­ments of the Human’

    Ethan Daniel Davidson
    December 19, 2021
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    Girl on the Fer­ris Wheel
    Julie Halpern, Len Vlahos
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    What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?: Dis­cov­er a Life Filled with Pur­pose and Joy Through the Secrets of Jew­ish Wisdom
    Michal Oshman
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    The Christ­mas Mitzvah
    Jeff Gottes­feld
    Interview

    Dig­ging through the Past: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Rutu Modan

    Tah­neer Oksman
    December 6, 2021
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    Let­ter to a Young Female Physi­cian: Notes from a Med­ical Life
    Suzanne Koven
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    ‘You Mean Super­sti­tions?’: Explor­ing the Cus­toms of Ortho­dox Jew­ish Women

    Lind­sey Taylor-Guthartz
    November 22, 2021
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    The Can­dy Man Mystery
    Rabbi Kerry Olitzky, Christina Mattison Ebert (Illustrator)
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    The Pes­simists
    Bethany Ball
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    Lar­ry’s Latkes
    Jenny Waldman, Ben Whitehouse (Illustrator)
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    Danielle Joseph
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    Rutu Modan, Ishai Mishory (Translator)
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