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    Nana Lena’s Kitchen: Recipes for Life
    Amy Ostrower
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    Bar Mitz­vah: A Guide to Spir­i­tu­al Growth
    Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Francoise-Anne Menager
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    Where God Was Born
    Bruce Feiler
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    Hag­gadah and History
    Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
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    Jeffrey Shandler
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    Goldie Milgram and Ellen Frankel, eds.
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    Stand­ing With Israel: Why Chris­tians Sup­port the Jew­ish State
    David Brog
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    Arguably: Essays
    Christopher Hitchens
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    We’re Miss­ing The Point:What’s Wrong With The Ortho­dox Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty And How to Fix it
    Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein
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    Yearn­ings: Embrac­ing the Sacred Messi­ness of Life
    Irwin Kula; Linda Loewenthal
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    Wis­dom by the Week: The Week­ly Torah Por­tion as an Inspi­ra­tion for Thought and Creativity
    Naftali Rothenberg, ed.
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    Gonzo Judaism
    Niles Elliot Goldstein
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    The Big Book of Jew­ish Humor: 25th Anniver­sary Edition
    William Novak; Moshe Waldoks, eds.
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    What’s Up With the Hard Core Jew­ish People?
    Margery Isis Schwartz
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    Every Moth­er is a Daugh­ter: The Nev­erend­ing Quest for Suc­cess, Inner Peace, and a Real­ly Clean Kitchen
    Perri Klass, Sheila Solomon Klass
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    Rethink­ing Syn­a­gogues: A New Vocab­u­lary for Con­gre­ga­tion­al Life
    Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
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