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Modern Jewish Thought

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The First Mod­ern Jew: Spin­oza and the His­to­ry of an Image
Daniel B. Schwartz
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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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Reck­less Rites: Purim and the Lega­cy of Jew­ish Violence
Elliot Horowitz
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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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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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Wit­ness to the One: The spir­i­tu­al his­to­ry of the Sh’ma
Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler
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The Left Hand of God: Tak­ing Back Our Coun­try From the Reli­gious Right
Michael Lerner
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Essen­tial Torah: A Com­plete Guide to the Five Books of Moses
George Robinson
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From With­in the Tent: The Haftarot
Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart W. Halpern, eds.
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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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The Phi­los­o­phy of Hebrew Scrip­ture: An Introduction
Yoram Hazony
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Holy Eat­ing: The Spir­i­tu­al Secret to Eter­nal Weight Loss
Robert Schwartz
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