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    Why Is This Night Dif­fer­ent from All Oth­er Nights?: ​“The Four Ques­tions” Around the World
    Ilana Kurshan; Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, intro.
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    The Book of Job
    Harold S. Kushner
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    My Peo­ple’s Passover Hag­gadah: Tra­di­tion­al Texts, Mod­ern Com­men­taries Vol­ume 1
    Lawrence A. Hoffman and David Arnow, eds.
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    Seder Sto­ries: Passover Thoughts on Food, Fam­i­ly, and Freedom
    Nancy Rips
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    Am I a Jew?
    Theodore Ross
    Cover of My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries Volume 2
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    My Peo­ple’s Passover Hag­gadah: Tra­di­tion­al Texts, Mod­ern Com­men­taries Vol­ume 2
    Lawrence A. Hoffman and David Arnow, eds.
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    A Sense of Direc­tion: Pil­grim­age for the Rest­less and the Hopeful
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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    Sur­viv­ing Your Bar/​Bat Mitz­vah: The Ulti­mate Insid­er’s Guide
    Matt Axel­rod
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    Very Near to You: Human Read­ings of the Torah
    Avra­ham Burg
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    Old Lives and New: Sovi­et Immi­grants in Israel and America
    Edith Rogovin Frankel
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    Yoga Shalom
    Lisa Levine with Carol Krucoff
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    Hag­gadah Illuminated
    Even Caredio; Guglielomo Bigi Benajá, illus.
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    A Night to Remem­ber: The Hag­gadah of Con­tem­po­rary Voices
    Mishael Zion and Noam Zion; Michel Kichka, illus.
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    Half the House — My Life In and Out of Jerusalem
    Rachel Berghash
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    Oy Vey! Isn’t a Strat­e­gy: 25 Solu­tions for Per­son­al and Pro­fes­sion­al Success
    Deb­o­rah Grayson Riegel
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    Bro­ken Frag­ments: Jew­ish Expe­ri­ences of Alzheimer’s Dis­ease through Diag­no­sis, Adap­ta­tion, and Mov­ing On
    Dou­glas Kohn
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