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God of Our Under­stand­ing: Jew­ish Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty and Recov­ery from Addiction
Rabbi Shais Taub
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Jew­ish Ethics and the Care of End-of-Life Patients: A Col­lec­tion of Rab­bini­cal, Bioeth­i­cal, Philo­soph­i­cal, and Juris­tic Opinions
Peter Joel Hurwitz, Jacques Picard, Avraham Steinberg, eds.
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The Hadas­sah Jew­ish Fam­i­ly Book of Health and Wellness
Robin E. Berman, Arthur Kurzweil, Dale L. Mintz, eds.
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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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Promise Me: How a Sis­ter’s Love Launched the Glob­al Move­ment to End Breast Cancer
Nancy G. Brinker
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Excerpt Fri­day

Today’s Excerpt Fri­day fea­tures Chap­ter 8 from Main­tain­ing Recov­ery from Eat­ing Dis­or­ders: Avoid­ing Relapse and Recov­er­ing Life (Nao­mi…
Nao­mi Feigenbaum
September 23, 2011
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Starv­ing Souls: A Spir­i­tu­al Guide to Under­stand­ing Eat­ing Dis­or­ders — Anorex­ia, Bulim­ia, Binging…
Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser
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Med­i­cine in Trans­la­tion: Jour­neys with My Patients
Danielle Ofri
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Lar­ry’s Kidney
Daniel Asa Rose
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The Good, The Bad and the Delicious

Ear­li­er this week Stacey Bal­lis wrote about Rosh Hashanah cook­ing and fast­ing on Yom Kip­pur for the Vis­it­ing Scribe. Her newest…
Stacey Bal­lis
September 3, 2010
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Sex and Judaism

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterJust read about an inter­est­ing new title com­ing out in June from Danya Rut­ten­berg (Sur­prised By God): The Pas­sion­ate Torah: Sex and…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
May 7, 2009
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Mmmm…

Libi Adler
November 6, 2008
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