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    Modern Jewish Thought

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    From Defend­er to Crit­ic: The Search for a New Jew­ish Self
    David Hartman
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    Elliot Horowitz
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    The Lad­der of Jacob: Ancient Inter­pre­ta­tions of the Bib­li­cal Sto­ry of Jacob and His Children
    James L. Kugel
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    The Tal­mud’s The­o­log­i­cal Lan­guage Game: A Philo­soph­i­cal Dis­course Analysis
    Eugene B. Borowitz
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    The Great Part­ner­ship: Sci­ence, Reli­gion, and the Search For Meaning
    Jonathan Sacks
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    Wis­dom by the Week: The Week­ly Torah Por­tion as an Inspi­ra­tion for Thought and Creativity
    Naftali Rothenberg, ed.
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    The Left Hand of God: Tak­ing Back Our Coun­try From the Reli­gious Right
    Michael Lerner
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    Wit­ness to the One: The spir­i­tu­al his­to­ry of the Sh’ma
    Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler
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    Essen­tial Torah: A Com­plete Guide to the Five Books of Moses
    George Robinson
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    Pledges of Jew­ish Alle­giance: Con­ver­sion, Law, and Pol­i­cy­mak­ing in Nine­teenth- and Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Ortho­dox Responsa
    David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis
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    Slid­ing to the Right: The Con­test for the Future of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Orthodoxy
    Samuel C. Heilman
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    From With­in the Tent: The Haftarot
    Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart W. Halpern, eds.
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    The Phi­los­o­phy of Hebrew Scrip­ture: An Introduction
    Yoram Hazony
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    The Oth­er Tal­mud: The Yerushalmi
    Judith Abrams
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    The Essen­tial Guide to Jew­ish Prayer and Practices
    Andrea Lieber
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    Shu­va: The Future of the Jew­ish Past
    Yehu­da Kurtzer
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