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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
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    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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    Jew­ish Wis­dom for Grow­ing Older
    Dayle A. Friedman
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    Berlin Wolf
    Mark Florida-James
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    Head­lines: Halachic Debates of Cur­rent Events
    Dovid Lichtenstein
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    On the Front Lines in a Chang­ing Jew­ish World: Col­lect­ed Writ­ings, 1988 – 2013
    Michael C. Kotzin
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    Bar Mitz­vah: A History
    Michael Hilton
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