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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Val­ues and Ethics — Through a Jew­ish Lens
Joyce and Fred Claar
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Fic­tion
Inher­it­ing Edith
Zoe Fish­man
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Non­fic­tion
Sein­fel­dia
Jen­nifer Keishin Armstrong
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Why Be Jew­ish?: A Testament
Edgar M. Bronfman
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False Facts and True Rumors: Lashon HaRa in Con­tem­po­rary Culture
Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman
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We’re Almost There: Liv­ing with Patience, Per­se­ver­ance and Purpose
Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen
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Jews and Genes: The Genet­ic Future in Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Thought
Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Dr. Laurie Zoloth, eds.
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Leav­ing the Jew­ish Fold: Con­ver­sa­tion and Rad­i­cal Assim­i­la­tion in Mod­ern Jew­ish History
Todd M. Endelman
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The Yid: A Novel
Paul Gold­berg
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Look­ing Jew­ish: Visu­al Cul­ture and Mod­ern Diaspora
Carol Zemel
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Noto­ri­ous RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik
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The Ori­gins of the Undo List

Ear­li­er this week, Christo­pher Nox­on shared the begin­nings of his jour­ney from ​“doing Jew” to being Jew­ish and the pro­found impor­tance he found in rit­u­al­ized rites…
Christo­pher Noxon
November 27, 2015
Essay

Every­one Wants to Be Invited

Ear­li­er this week, Christo­pher Nox­on shared his jour­ney from ​“doing Jew” to being Jew­ish. He is blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series on The…
Christo­pher Noxon
November 25, 2015
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The Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jew­ish Values
Nachum Amsel
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Chang­ing the Immutable: How Ortho­dox Judaism Rewrites Its History
Marc B. Shapiro
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Reclaim­ing Bar/​Bat Mitz­vah as a Spir­i­tu­al Rite of Passage
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