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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Dog
Yishay Ishi Ron; Yardenne Greenspan, trans
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Pass The Trau­ma, Please: My father’s Not-So-Depress­ing Holo­caust Mem­oir About Love, Loss, Laugh­ter, and Legacy
Todd Dia­mond
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Fine, I’m a Ter­ri­ble Person
Lisa F. Rosenberg
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Rab­bi Bri­an’s High­ly Unortho­dox Gospel: A Mod­ern Guide to Com­pas­sion, Kind­ness, and Love. For Oth­ers. And, Self.
Bri­an Zachary Mayer
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In Pur­suit of Beauty
Gary Baum
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Acts of Lovingkindness
Nina Kentsis
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Safe­ty Through Sol­i­dar­i­ty: A Rad­i­cal Guide for Fight­ing Antisemitism
Shane Burley, Ben Lorber 
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Chil­dren’s
Just Say Welcome
Emi­ly Raij
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Next Stop
Ben­jamin Resnick
Essay

Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties and a Dizzy­ing Freedom

Andrés Spokoiny
August 26, 2024
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Poet­ry
The Ani­mal is Chemical
Hadara Bar-Nadav
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Mag­i­cal Meet Cute
Jean Meltzer
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Poet­ry
A Speak­er Is a Wilder­ness: Poems on the Sacred Path from Bro­ken to Whole
Anna Good­man Herrick
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Tablets Shat­tered: The End of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Cen­tu­ry and the Future of Jew­ish Life
Joshua Leifer
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The Snarling Girl and Oth­er Essays
Elisa Albert
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