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    Float­ing Takes Faith: Ancient Wis­dom for a Mod­ern World
    Rabbi David J. Wolpe
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    Tree of Souls: The Mythol­o­gy of Judaism
    Howard Schwartz; Caren Lobbel-Fried, illus.
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    A Place in the Tent: Inter­mar­riage and Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism
    Mark Bloom; Ted Feldman; Gordon Freeman; Stuart Kelman; Harry Manhoff; Mimi Weisel; Rose Levinson; Glenn Massarano
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    For the Sake of Heav­en and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity
    Irv­ing Greenberg
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    Rein­vent­ing Adult Jew­ish Education
    Betsy Dolgin Katz
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    Food and Judaism
    Leonard J. Greenspoon; Ronald A. Simkins; Gerald Shapiro, eds.
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    Jew­ish With Feel­ing: A Guide to Mean­ing­ful Jew­ish Practice
    Zalman Schachter-Shalomi; Joel Segel
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    Tevye’s Grand­chil­dren: Redis­cov­er­ing Jew­ish Identity
    Eleanor Mallet
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    Kosher Liv­ing: It’s More Than Just the Food
    Ron Isaacs
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    Amaz­ing Jew­ish Facts and Curiosities
    Ronald H. Isaacs
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    Clas­sic Cui­sine of the Ital­ian Jews: Tra­di­tion­al Menus and Recipes
    Edda Servi Machlin
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    The Art of Amaze­ment: Judais­m’s For­got­ten Spirituality
    Alexander Seinfeld
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    Around the Fam­i­ly Table: Songs and Prayers for the Jew­ish Home
    Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
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    A Day Apart: Shab­bat at Home: A Step-by-Step Guide­book With Bless­ing and Songs, Rit­u­als and Reflections
    Noam Sachs Zion; Shawn Fields-Meyer
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    Bar Mitz­vah, Bat Mitz­vah: Plan­ning the Per­fect Day
    Amy Nebens; Ellen Silverman and David Lewis Sternfeld, illus.
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    Michael R. Cohen
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