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    Cover of Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist
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    Wait­ing for God: The Spir­i­tu­al Explo­rations of a Reluc­tant Atheist
    Lawrence Bush
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    Har­vest of a Decade: Dis­raelia and Oth­er Essays
    Walter Laqueur
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    Jour­neys to a Jew­ish Life: Inspir­ing Sto­ries from the Spir­i­tu­al Jour­neys of Amer­i­can Jews
    Paula Amann
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    A Prophet­ic Peace: Judaism, Reli­gion and Politics
    Alick Isaacs
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    Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Jour­ney in Young Adult Identity
    Leonard Saxe; Barry Chazan
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    Spir­i­tu­al Activism: A Jew­ish Guide to Lead­er­ship and Repair­ing the World
    Rabbi Avraham Weiss
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    You Don’t Have To Be Wrong For Me To Be Right: Find­ing Faith With­out Fanaticism
    Brad Hirschfield
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    Please Excuse My Daughter
    Julie Klam
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    Bubbe Meis­es: Jew­ish Myths, Jew­ish Realities
    Ronald H. Isaacs
    Cover of Disaster Spiritual Care: Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and National Tragedy
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    Dis­as­ter Spir­i­tu­al Care: Prac­ti­cal Cler­gy Respons­es to Com­mu­ni­ty, Region­al and Nation­al Tragedy
    Stephen B. Roberts and Willard W.C. Ashley Sr., eds.
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    Nev­erend­ing Par­ent­ing: Being a Mature Par­ent for Your Adult Child
    Aaron Auerbach
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    Cloth­ing Option­al: And Oth­er Ways to Read These Stories
    Alan Zweibel
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    The Bro­ken Amer­i­can Male: and How to Fix Him
    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
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    Hope, Not Fear: A Path to Jew­ish Renaissance
    Edgar M. Bronfman with Beth Zasloff
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    We Plan, God Laughs: Ten Steps to Find­ing Your Divine Path When Life is Not Turn­ing Out Like You Wanted
    Sherre Hirsch
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    Around the Shab­bos Table
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