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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Search­ing for Lottie
Susan Ross
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Chil­dren’s
The Rab­bi Slurps Spaghetti 
Leslie Kimmelman; Sharon Davey, illus.
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A Riv­er Could Be a Tree: A Memoir
Angela Himsel; Shulem Deen, fwd.
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Col­or Me In
Natasha Díaz
Bible & Bib­li­cal­ly Inspired Stories
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Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Leon Wiener Dow

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March 4, 2019
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Gen­der and Reli­gious Lead­er­ship: Women Rab­bis, Pas­tors, and Ministers
Hartmut Bomhoff, Denise L. Eger, Kathy Ehrensperger, Walter Homolka (Editors)
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God Is In the Crowd: Twen­ty-First Cen­tu­ry Judaism
Tal Keinan
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Amer­i­can Val­ues, Reli­gious Voic­es: 100 Days. 100 Letters
Andrea L. Weiss, Lisa M. Weinberger
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Our Year of Maybe
Rachel Lynn Solomon
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Bit­ter and Sweet
Sandra V. Feder; Kyrsten Brooker Brooker, illus.
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The Art of Starving
Sam J. Miller
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Ready to Fall: A Novel
Marcella Fleischman Pixley
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The Cure for Cold Feet
Beth Ain
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A Torah Giant: The Intel­lec­tu­al Lega­cy of Rab­bi Dr. Irv­ing (Yitz) Greenberg
Shmuly Yanklowitz, ed.
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Time­less Trav­els: Tales of Mys­tery, Humor, Intrigue and Enchantment
Joseph Roten­berg
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