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    Chil­dren’s
    Around the Shab­bos Table
    Seryl Berman; Ari Binus, illus.
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    A Time to Every Pur­pose: Let­ters to a Young Jew
    Jonathan D. Sarna
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    Land­mark of the Spir­it: The Eldridge Street Synagogue
    Annie Pollard; Bill Moyers, fwd.
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    So Punk Rock (And Oth­er Ways to Dis­ap­point Your Mother)
    Micol Ostow; David Ostow, illus.
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    A Guide to Jew­ish Prac­tice: Vol­ume 1 — Every­day Living
    David A. Teutsch
    Cover of Where We Find Ourselves: Jewish Women Around the World Write About Home
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    Where We Find Our­selves: Jew­ish Women Around the World Write About Home
    Miriam Ben-Yoseph and Deborah Nodler Rosen, eds.
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    A Man’s Respon­si­bil­i­ty: A Jew­ish Guide to Being a Son, a Part­ner in Mar­riage, a Father and a Com­mu­ni­ty Leader
    Rabbi Joseph Meszler
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    Strict­ly Kosher Read­ing: Pop­u­lar Lit­er­a­ture and the Con­di­tion of Con­tem­po­rary Orthodoxy
    Yoel Finkelman
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    Not Your Father’s Anti­semitism: Hatred of the Jews in the 21st Century
    Michael Berenbaum, ed.
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    The Gift of Grief
    Matthew D. Gewirtz
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    A Code of Jew­ish Ethics: Vol­ume 2 — Love Your Neigh­bor As Yourself
    Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
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    Anti­semet­ic Myths: A His­tor­i­cal and Con­tem­po­rary Anthology
    Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer, eds.
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    Anti-Semi­tism: A His­to­ry and Psy­cho­analy­sis of Con­tem­po­rary Hatred
    Avner Falk
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    Camp Camp
    Roger Bennett and Jules Shell; Ivan Reitma, fwd.
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    Liv­ing Jew­ish Life Cycle: How to Cre­ate Mean­ing­ful Jew­ish Rites of Pas­sage at Every Stage of Life
    Goldie Mil­gram
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    One Hun­dred Great Jew­ish Books: Three Mil­len­nia of Jew­ish Conversation
    Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
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