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    Reli­gion and the Order of Nature
    Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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    To Life!: A Cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish Being and Thinking
    Harold S. Kushner
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    Between Sodom and Eden
    Lee Walzer
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    Peace, Jus­tice, and Jews: Reclaim­ing Our Tradition
    Stefan Merken and Murray Polner, eds.
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    A Wild Faith: Jew­ish Ways into Wilder­ness, Wilder­ness Ways into Judaism
    Rabbi Mike Comins
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    Trees, Earth and Torah: A Tu B’Sh­vat Anthology
    Ari Elon, Naomi Mara Hyman, Arthur Waskow, eds.
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    Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jew­ish Les­bians and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Tradition
    Rebecca Alpert
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    Nice Jew­ish Girls: A Les­bian Anthology
    Evelyn Torton
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    Judaism and Ecol­o­gy (A Hadas­sah Study Guide in Coop­er­a­tion with Shom­rei Adamah, Keep­ers of the Earth)
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    Pret­ty Is What Changes: Impos­si­ble Choic­es, The Breast Can­cer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
    Jessica Queller
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    Right­eous Indig­na­tion: A Jew­ish Call for Justice
    Or Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Margie Klein, eds.
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    Judaism and Ecol­o­gy: Cre­at­ed World and Revealed Word
    Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, ed.
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    Promise Me: How a Sis­ter’s Love Launched the Glob­al Move­ment to End Breast Cancer
    Nancy G. Brinker
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    Les­bian Rab­bis: The First Generation
    Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell and Shirley Idelson, eds.
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    Twice Blessed: On Being Les­bian or Gay and Jewish
    Christie Balka and Andy Rose, eds.
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    A Guide to Jew­ish Reli­gious Practice
    Isaac Klein
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