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    Cover of Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah
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    Unscrolled: 54 Writ­ers and Artists Wres­tle with the Torah
    Roger Bennett, ed.
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    The Dev­il That Nev­er Dies: The Rise and Threat of Glob­al Antisemitism
    Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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    How to Woo a Jew: The Mod­ern Jew­ish Guide to Dat­ing and Mating
    Tamar Caspi
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    Spoils
    Tam­mar Stein
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    Returns and Exchanges
    Yuri Kru­man
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    Kad­dish: Wom­en’s Voices
    Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas
    Cover of Guidance, Not Governance: Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa
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    Guid­ance, Not Gov­er­nance: Rab­bi Solomon B. Free­hof and Reform Responsa
    Joan S. Friedman
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    Far From the Tree: Par­ents, Chil­dren and the Search for Identity
    Andrew Solomon
    Cover of God Was in This Place & I, I Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality, and Ultimate Meaning
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    God Was in This Place & I, I Did Not Know: Find­ing Self, Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, and Ulti­mate Meaning
    Lawrence Kushner
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    Jews in the Los Ange­les Mosaic
    Karen S. Wilson, ed.
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    Rela­tion­al Judaism: Using the Pow­er of Rela­tion­ships to Trans­form the Jew­ish Community
    Dr. Ron Wolfson
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    Jews of Today: A Primer on Hasidic Dress
    Michael Levin
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    Lovesong: Becom­ing a Jew
    Julius Lester
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    In the Neigh­bor­hood: The Search for Com­mu­ni­ty on an Amer­i­can Street, One Sleep­over at a Time
    Peter Loven­heim
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    Poi­son­ing the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Ander­son, and the Rise of Wash­ing­ton’s Scan­dal Culture
    Mark Feld­stein
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    The Chameleon in the Clos­et: A Con­ser­v­a­tive Jew­ish Moth­er Reach­es Out to Her Ortho­dox Sons
    BJ Rosen­feld
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