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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Chil­dren’s
    Bubbe and Zaide
    Anne-Marie Asner
    Event

    Scrip­tions: Jew­ish Thoughts and Respons­es to COVID-19

    Wednesday, February 10, 2021
    1:30–2:30pm

    Zoom

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    Cook­book
    Now for Some­thing Sweet
    Mon­day Morn­ing Cook­ing Club
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Abba Tree
    Devora Busheri, Gal Shkedi (illus.)
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    Non­fic­tion
    The For­give­ness Tour: How To Find the Per­fect Apology
    Susan Shapiro
    Essay

    “Can you for­give some­one who does­n’t apol­o­gize?”: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Susan Shapiro

    Emi­ly Stone
    January 19, 2021
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    Chil­dren’s
    Call­ing Cobber
    Sheri Sinykin
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    Cook­book
    Bav­el: Mod­ern Recipes Inspired by the Mid­dle East
    Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis with Lesley Suter
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Jew­ish Fam­i­ly Ethics Textbook
    Neal Scheindlin
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    Becom­ing a Soul­ful Par­ent: A Path to the Wis­dom Within
    Dasee Berkowitz
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    The Mem­o­ry Work of Jew­ish Spain
    Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa
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    Non­fic­tion
    Jew­ish Wom­en’s His­to­ry from Antiq­ui­ty to the Present
    Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn Winer (Editors)
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    Poet­ry
    Town Crier: Poems
    Sarah Matthes
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    The Won­der­ing Jew: Israel and the Search for Jew­ish Identity
    Micah Goodman, Eylon Levy (trans.)
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    Bound in the Bond of Life: Pitts­burgh Writ­ers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy
    Beth Kissileff and Eric Lidji (eds.)
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    Moth­er for Dinner
    Shalom Aus­lan­der
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