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    Tough Ques­tions Jews Ask: A Young Adults Guide to Build­ing a Jew­ish Life
    Rabbi Edward Feinstein
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    Carin Davis
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    Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD, ed.
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    The Big Jew­ish Book for Jews: Every­thing You Need to Know to Be a Real­ly Jew­ish Jew
    Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman
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    Repen­tance: The Mean­ing and Prac­tice of Teshuvah
    Dr. Louis E. Newman
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    Busi­ness Men­sch: Tire­less Wis­dom for Today’s Entrepreneur
    Noah Alper with Thomas Fields-Meyer
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    Jew­ish U: A Con­tem­po­rary Guide for the Jew­ish Col­lege Stu­dent, Revised Edition
    Scott Aaron; Wayne L. Firestone, fwd.
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    The Bless­ing of a B Minus: Using Jew­ish Teach­ings to Raise Resilient Teenagers
    Wendy Mogel
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    David Schoem
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    Starv­ing Souls: A Spir­i­tu­al Guide to Under­stand­ing Eat­ing Dis­or­ders — Anorex­ia, Bulim­ia, Binging…
    Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser
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    Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz
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    Ayala Fader
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    Daniel Belasco
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    Lewis S. Mudge
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