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    Cover of Just Say Nu: Yiddish For Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do)
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    Just Say Nu: Yid­dish For Every Occa­sion (When Eng­lish Just Won’t Do)
    Michael Wex
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    Can I Have a Cell Phone For Hanukkah?
    Sharon Duke Estroff
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    Do You Believe?: Con­ver­sa­tions on God and Religion
    Antonio Monda; Ann Goldstein, trans.
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    Rather Laugh Than Cry: Sto­ries From a Has­sidic Household
    Malka Zipora
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    Hap­pi­ness and the Human Spirit
    Abraham J. Twerski
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    Cel­e­brat­ing the Jew­ish Year: Win­ter Hol­i­days — Hanukkah, Tu B’She­vat, Purim
    Paul Steinberg; Janet Greenstein Potter, ed.
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    Liv­ing a Joy­ous Life: The True Spir­it of Jew­ish Practice
    Rabbi David Aaron
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    Pirke Avot: Time­less Wis­dom for Mod­ern Life
    William Berkson; Menachem Fisch, trans.
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    Wait­ing for God: The Spir­i­tu­al Explo­rations of a Reluc­tant Atheist
    Lawrence Bush
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    Why Faith Matters
    David J. Wolpe
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    Jour­neys to a Jew­ish Life: Inspir­ing Sto­ries from the Spir­i­tu­al Jour­neys of Amer­i­can Jews
    Paula Amann
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    Har­vest of a Decade: Dis­raelia and Oth­er Essays
    Walter Laqueur
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    A Prophet­ic Peace: Judaism, Reli­gion and Politics
    Alick Isaacs
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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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    Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Jour­ney in Young Adult Identity
    Leonard Saxe; Barry Chazan
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