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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Non­fic­tion
    Sein­fel­dia
    Jen­nifer Keishin Armstrong
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    Chil­dren’s
    Not This Turkey!
    Jes­si­ca Steinberg
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    Non­fic­tion
    Oy Oy Oy Gevalt!
    Michael Croland
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    Fic­tion
    A Call from Spoon­er Street
    Car­ol Ascher
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    Aphrodite and the Rabbis
    Bur­ton L. Visotzky
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    Visu­al Arts
    L’Chaim!
    Eliez­er Sobel
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    Some­how I Am Different
    Alyssa Petersel
    Cover of Shmulik Paints the Town
    Chil­dren’s
    Shmu­lik Paints the Town
    Lisa Rose; Catalina Echeverri illus.
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    Why Be Jew­ish?: A Testament
    Edgar M. Bronfman
    Cover of False Facts and True Rumors: Lashon HaRa in Contemporary Culture
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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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