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    Modern Jewish Thought

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    Make Your­self a Teacher: Rab­binic Tales of Men­tors and Disciples
    Susan Handelman
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    Yitzchak Blau
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    We Have Sinned: Sin and Con­fes­sion in Judaism: Asham­nu and Al Chet
    Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, ed.
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    The Sages: Char­ac­ter, Con­text and Cre­ativ­i­ty; Vol. II: From Yavneh to the Bar Kokh­ba Revolt
    Binyamin Lau; Ilana Kurshan, trans.
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    Mai­monides & Spin­oza: Their Con­flict­ing Views of Human Nature
    Joshua Parens
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    In the Begin­ning of: A New Look at Old Words
    Judah Landa
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    Expand­ing the Palace of Torah: Ortho­doxy and Feminism
    Tamar Ross
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    DNA & Tra­di­tion: The Gen­er­tic Link to the Ancient Hebrews
    Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman
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    Eyes to See: Recov­er­ing Eth­i­cal Torah Prin­ci­ples Lost in the Holocaust
    Rabbi Yom Tov Schwarcz; Avraham Leib Schwarcz, trans.
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    The Jew and the Other
    Esther Benbassa; Jean-Christophe Attias; G.M. Goshgarian, trans.
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    Essen­tial Read­ings on Jew­ish Iden­ti­ties: Lifestyles & Beliefs: Analy­ses of the Per­son­al and Social Diver­si­ty of Jews by Mod­ern Scholars
    Stanford Lyman, ed.
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    Eye­wit­ness to Jew­ish History
    Rabbi Benjamin Blech
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    The JPS Guide to Jew­ish Traditions
    Ronald L. Eisenberg
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    The Dig­ni­ty of Dif­fer­ence: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilization
    Jonathan Sacks
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    Jew­ish Preach­ing: Hom­i­lies and Sermons
    Louis Jacobs
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