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    Contemporary Jewish Life

    Essay

    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
    Cover of Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History
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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
    Goldie Mil­gram
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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
    Cover of On the Front Lines in a Changing Jewish World: Collected Writings, 1988-2013
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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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    A Guide to the Com­plex: Con­tem­po­rary Halakhic Debates
    Shlomo M. Brody
    Cover of A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs
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    A Phi­los­o­phy of Havru­ta: Under­stand­ing and Teach­ing the Art of Text Study in Pairs
    Elie Holzer with Orit Kent
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    Maps and Mean­ing: Levit­i­cal Mod­els for Con­tem­po­rary Care
    Nancy H. Wiener and Jo Hirschmann
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    Monastery
    Eduardo Halfon; Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn, trans.
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    After Birth
    Elisa Albert
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    A Guide to Jew­ish Prac­tice, Vol­ume 2: Shab­bat and Holidays
    David A. Teutsch, ed.
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