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    Contemporary Jewish Life

    Cover of The Bronfman Haggadah
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    The Bronf­man Haggadah
    Edgar M. Bronfman; Jan Aronson, illus.
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    Dav­en­ing: A Guide to Mean­ing­ful Jew­ish Prayer
    Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Joel Segel; Kushner, fwd.
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    Men­sch-Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi―Wisdom for Unteth­ered Times
    Joshua Ham­mer­man
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    Lost and Found in Spain: Tales of An Ambas­sador’s Wife
    Susan Solomont
    Cover of To Heal The World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel
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    To Heal The World?: How the Jew­ish Left Cor­rupts Judaism and Endan­gers Israel
    Jonathan Neu­mann
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    Moments of the Heart: Four Rela­tion­ships Every­one Should Have to Live Wholeheartedly
    Dorice Horen­stein
    Cover of The Sacred Exchange: Creating a Jewish Money Ethic
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    The Sacred Exchange: Cre­at­ing a Jew­ish Mon­ey Ethic
    Mary L. Zamore
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    Fic­tion
    Gina from Siberia
    Jane Bern­stein
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    Fic­tion
    The Oth­er Hand
    Andrew Kane
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    Fic­tion
    The Cast
    Amy Blu­men­feld
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    Kugel and Fri­joles: Lati­no Jews in the Unit­ed States
    Lau­ra Limonic
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    Glob­al Health Impacts of Nan­otech­nol­o­gy Law: A Tool for Stake­hold­er Engagement 
    Ilise Feit­shans
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    Wounds into Wis­dom: Heal­ing Inter­gen­er­a­tional Jew­ish Trauma
    Tirzah Fire­stone
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    Get­ting Good at Get­ting Older
    Richard Siegel (z'l) and Rabbi Laura Geller
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    Poet­ry
    Frayed Light
    Yonatan Berg (auth.), Joanna Chen (trans.)
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    Matzah Below­stairs
    Susan Lynn Meyer
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