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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Two Prayers

    Daniel Tor­day
    February 28, 2020
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    Chas­ing Echoes
    Dan Goldman, George Schall (illus.)
    News

    2019 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Auction

    February 19, 2020
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    What Is Missing
    Michael Frank
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    Mishkan Ga’avah: Where Pride Dwells: A Cel­e­bra­tion of LGBTQ Jew­ish Life and Ritual
    Denise Eger (Editor)
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    Dis­senter on the Bench: Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s Life and Work
    Vic­to­ria Ortiz
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    A Place at the Table
    Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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    Visu­al Arts
    Have I Got A Car­toon For You!: The Moment Mag­a­zine Book of Jew­ish Cartoons
    Bob Mankoff
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    ‘The Secret Was Me’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Dani Shapiro and T Kira Madden

    Bec­ca Kantor
    January 28, 2020
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    Cook­book
    The Jew­ish Cookbook
    Leah Koenig, Julia Turshen (fwd.)
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    Becom­ing RBG: Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s Jour­ney to Justice
    Debbie Levy (auth.), Whitney Gardner (illus.)  
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    The Dry Heart
    Natalia Ginzburg (auth.), Frances Frenaye (trans.)
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    24/6: The Pow­er of Unplug­ging One Day a Week
    Tiffany Shlain
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    Jew­ish Text
    Pre­pare My Prayer
    Rabbi Dov Singer
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    Deb­o­rah Shapiro
    January 6, 2020
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    Deb­o­rah Miller
    December 16, 2019
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