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    Modern Jewish Thought

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    We Stand Divid­ed: The Rift Between Amer­i­can Jews and Israel
    Daniel Gordis
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    Who Wants to Be A Jew­ish Writer?: And Oth­er Essays
    Adam Kirsch
    Interview

    Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Alan L. Mittleman

    JBC Staff
    February 23, 2019
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    Return and Renew­al: Reflec­tions on Teshu­va and Spir­i­tu­al Growth
    Aharon Lichtenstein
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    In Good Faith: Ques­tion­ing Reli­gion and Atheism
    Scott A. Shay
    Cover of A Torah Giant: The Intellectual Legacy of Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
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    A Torah Giant: The Intel­lec­tu­al Lega­cy of Rab­bi Dr. Irv­ing (Yitz) Greenberg
    Shmuly Yanklowitz, ed.
    Cover of Longing: Jewish Meditations on a Hidden God
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    Long­ing: Jew­ish Med­i­ta­tions on a Hid­den God
    Justin David
    Essay

    A New Look at the Prophets

    Rab­bi Bar­ry L. Schwartz
    March 23, 2018
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    Pious Irrev­er­ence: Con­fronting God in Rab­binic Judaism
    Dov Weiss
    Cover of Movies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation
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    Movies and Midrash: Pop­u­lar Film and Jew­ish Reli­gious Conversation
    Wendy I. Zierler
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    Moder­ni­ty and the Jews in West­ern Social Thought
    Chad Alan Goldberg
    Cover of Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens
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    Learn­ing to Read Tal­mud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens
    Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman, eds.
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    Con­sumer Cul­ture and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Jew­ish Identity
    Gideon Reuveni
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    Unortho­dox Kin: Por­tuguese Mar­ra­nos and the Glob­al Search for Belonging
    Naomi Leite
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    The Heart of Torah, Vol­ume 2
    Shai Held
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    The Heart of Torah, Vol­ume 1
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