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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Blood Flow: A Son’s 40-year Jour­ney to Under­stand His Father’s Suicide.
Lar­ry Bograd
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Songs of Summer
Jane L. Rosen
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Ketubah Renais­sance: The Art­ful Mod­ern Revival of the Jew­ish Mar­riage Contract
Michael Shapiro
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D.J. Rosen­blum Becomes the G.O.A.T.
Abby White
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Stay: A Sto­ry of Fam­i­ly, Love, & Oth­er Traumas
Julie Fin­gersh
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Lake Burntshore
Aaron Kreuter
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Dai­ly Life Lessons of Rab­bi Heschel
Mark Borovitz
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The Jew­ish Way to a Good Life: Find Hap­pi­ness, Build Com­mu­ni­ty, and Embrace Lovingkindness
Shi­ra Stutman
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Let Me Try Again
Matthew Davis
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Dog
Yishay Ishi Ron; Yardenne Greenspan, trans
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Pass The Trau­ma, Please: My father’s Not-So-Depress­ing Holo­caust Mem­oir About Love, Loss, Laugh­ter, and Legacy
Todd Dia­mond
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Next Stop
Ben­jamin Resnick
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The Ani­mal is Chemical
Hadara Bar-Nadav
Essay

Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties and a Dizzy­ing Freedom

Andrés Spokoiny
August 26, 2024
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Mag­i­cal Meet Cute
Jean Meltzer
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