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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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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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    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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    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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    Vio­lent Acts and Urban Space in Con­tem­po­rary Tel Aviv
    Tali Hatuka; Diane E. Davis, fwd.
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    Slid­ing to the Right: The Con­test for the Future of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Orthodoxy
    Samuel C. Heilman
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    Holy Unex­pect­ed: My New Life as a Jew
    Robin Chotzinoff
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    For­eign­ers and Their Food: Con­struct­ing Oth­er­ness in Jew­ish, Chris­t­ian, and Islam­ic Law
    David M. Freidenreich
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    The Bar Mitz­vah and The Beast: One Fam­i­ly’s Cross-Coun­try Ride of Pas­sage by Bike
    Matt Biers-Ariel
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    Unbro­ken Spir­it: A Hero­ic Sto­ry of Faith, Courage and Survival
    Yosef Mendelevich
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    Andrea Lieber
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