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    Modern Jewish Thought

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    Stay­ing Human: A Jew­ish The­ol­o­gy for the Age of Arti­fi­cial Intelligence
    Har­ris Bor
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    The Trans­for­ma­tive Daf: Trac­tate Megillah
    Daniel Fried­man
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    Hap­pi­ly Jew­ish: Find­ing Joy, Wis­dom And Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty in Judaism (Of All Places!)
    Michael Levin
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    This Crazy Devotion
    Philip Ter­man
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    Shak­ing Up the Tanakh

    Ali­son L. Joseph
    May 3, 2021
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    Chil­dren’s
    Yitzy Aims High
    Ann D. Koffsky
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    Wild Vision­ary: Mau­rice Sendak in Queer Jew­ish Context
    Golan Y. Moskowitz
    Essay

    Passover 5781/2021 Hag­gadah Roundup

    Jonathan Fass
    March 17, 2021
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    The Telling: How Judais­m’s Essen­tial Book Reveals the Mean­ing of Life
    Mark Ger­son
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    The Bless­ing and the Curse: The Jew­ish Peo­ple and Their Books in the Twen­ti­eth Century
    Adam Kirsch
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    Torah in a Time of Plague: His­tor­i­cal and Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Responses
    Erin Leib Smokler (Editor)
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    It Could Lead to Danc­ing: Mixed-Sex Danc­ing and Jew­ish Modernity
    Sonia Gollance
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    Think­ing about the Prophets: A Philoso­pher Reads the Bible
    Ken­neth Seeskin
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    The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement
    Alan Kadish
    Michael A. Shmidman
    Sim­cha Fishbane
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    The New Jew­ish Canon: Ideas and Debates 1980 – 2015
    Yehuda Kurtzer, Claire E. Sufrin (eds.)  
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    When We Turned With­in: Reflec­tions on COVID-19
    Rabbi Menachem Creditor and Sarah Tuttle-Singer, eds.
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