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Contemporary Jewish Life

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Eat­ing Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mys­tic, Poet
Seth Rogov­oy
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Spir­i­tu­al Bore­dom: Redis­cov­er­ing the Won­der of Judaism
Erica Brown
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Run­ning Com­men­tary: The Con­tentious Mag­a­zine That Trans­formed the Jew­ish Left into the Neo­con­ser­v­a­tive Right
Ben­jamin Balint
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Hold on to the Sun: True Sto­ries and Tales
Michal Govrin; Judith Miller, ed.
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What the Furies Bring
Kenneth Sherman
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Con­fronting Scan­dal: How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things
Erica Brown
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A New Voice for Israel: Fight­ing for the Sur­vival of the Jew­ish Nation
Jeremy Ben-Ami
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Broth­er Keep­ers: New Per­spec­tives on Jew­ish Masculinity
Harry Brod and Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, eds.
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Empow­ered Judaism: What Inde­pen­dent Minyan­im Can Teach Us about Build­ing Vibrant Jew­ish Communities
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer
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Reform Respon­sa for the Twen­ty-First Century
Mark Washofsky, ed.
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Tur­bu­lent Times: The British Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty Today
Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley
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Fes­ti­vals of Faith: Reflec­tions on the Jew­ish Holidays
Norman Lamm; David Shatz, ed.; Simon Posner, assoc. ed.
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How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck)
Michael Wex
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Beyond the Melt­ing Pot: Jew­ish Life and Learn­ing at the Turn of the Century
Dr. Alvin I. Schiff
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Con­science: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey
Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
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