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    Get­ting to the Heart of Inter­faith: The Eye-Open­ing, Hope-Filled Friend­ship of a Pas­tor, a Rab­bi and a Sheikh
    Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman
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    Do One Nice Thing: Lit­tle Things You Can Do To Make The World A Lot Nicer
    Debbie Tenzer
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    Devo­tion: A Memoir
    Dani Shapiro
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    Every­thing is God: The Rad­i­cal Path of Non­d­ual Judaism
    Jay Michael­son
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    Why The Drey­fus Affair Matters
    Louis Begley
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    Eat­ing Animals
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    Cover of Spiritual Boredom: Rediscovering the Wonder of Judaism
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    Spir­i­tu­al Bore­dom: Redis­cov­er­ing the Won­der of Judaism
    Erica Brown
    Cover of Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right
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    Run­ning Com­men­tary: The Con­tentious Mag­a­zine That Trans­formed the Jew­ish Left into the Neo­con­ser­v­a­tive Right
    Ben­jamin Balint
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    Con­fronting Scan­dal: How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things
    Erica Brown
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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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    Broth­er Keep­ers: New Per­spec­tives on Jew­ish Masculinity
    Harry Brod and Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, eds.
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    A New Voice for Israel: Fight­ing for the Sur­vival of the Jew­ish Nation
    Jeremy Ben-Ami
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    Empow­ered Judaism: What Inde­pen­dent Minyan­im Can Teach Us about Build­ing Vibrant Jew­ish Communities
    Rabbi Elie Kaunfer
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    Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Sto­ry­telling Collection
    Shana Liebman, ed.
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    Reform Respon­sa for the Twen­ty-First Century
    Mark Washofsky, ed.
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