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    Judaism: All That Matters
    Keith Kahn-Harris
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    Chesed Shel Emet: The Truest Act of Kind­ness, Explor­ing the Mean­ing of Taharah
    Rabbi Stuart Kelman and Dan Fendel
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    God, Jews and the Media: Reli­gion and Israel’s Media
    Yoel Cohen
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    Return: Dai­ly Inspi­ra­tion for the Days of Awe
    Erica Brown
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    My Life in Jew­ish Renew­al: A Memoir
    Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi with Edward Hoffman
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    Jews of Nige­ria: An Afro-Juda­ic Odyssey
    William F.S. Miles
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    Hap­pi­er End­ings: A Med­i­ta­tion on Life and Death
    Erica Brown
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    Amer­i­can Moses
    Stephen Witt
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    Jew­ish Mega­trends: Chart­ing the Course of the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Future
    Rabbi Sidney Schwarz
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    The Kosher Sutras: The Jew­ish Way in Yoga & Meditation
    Marcus J Freed
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    Don’t Get Me Started
    David Suissa
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    From the Shahs to Los Ange­les: Three Gen­er­a­tions of Iran­ian Jew­ish Women between Reli­gion and Culture
    Saba Soomekh
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    Activists Speak Out
    Marie Cieri and Claire Peeps, eds.
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    Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants: Based on a True Story
    Jill Soloway
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    Rev­o­lu­tion of Jew­ish Spirit
    Rabbi Baruch HaLevi and Ellen Frankel
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    The Bronf­man Haggadah
    Edgar M. Bronfman; Jan Aronson, illus.
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