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    Going Rogue (at Hebrew School)
    Casey Bre­ton
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    Moral­i­ty: Restor­ing the Com­mon Good in Divid­ed Times
    Jonathan Sacks
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    ‘Why Not Make Mag­ic Lit­er­al?’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Leigh Bar­dugo and David Hopen

    Simona Zaret­sky, Bec­ca Kantor
    December 28, 2020
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    What to Miss When
    Leigh Stein
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    Sharsh­eret’s Nation­al Book Club: Beat Breast Can­cer like a Boss with Ali Rogin

    Thursday, January 7, 2021
    8–9pm

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    Not Your All-Amer­i­can Girl
    Wendy Wan-Long Shang
    Made­lyn Rosenberg
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    Mod­ern Kosher: Glob­al Fla­vors, New Traditions
    Michael Aaron Gardiner
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    From Left to Right…and Every­thing in Between: The Impor­tance of Jew­ish Polit­i­cal Diversity

    Wednesday, January 6, 2021
    12:30–1:30pm

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    In part­ner­ship with Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, Natan Fund, and Shalom Hart­man Insti­tute of North America

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    Nicole Krauss in Con­ver­sa­tion with Jere­my Dauber

    Thursday, December 17, 2020
    12:30–1:30pm

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    Eri­ca S. Perl
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    The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement
    Alan Kadish
    Michael A. Shmidman
    Sim­cha Fishbane
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    Eat­ing Out Loud: Bold Mid­dle East­ern Fla­vors for All Day, Every Day
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    Ter­ri Libenson
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    When We Turned With­in: Reflec­tions on COVID-19
    Rabbi Menachem Creditor and Sarah Tuttle-Singer, eds.
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    Remix Judaism: Pre­serv­ing Tra­di­tion in a Diverse World
    Rober­ta Rosen­thal Kwall
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