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Modern Jewish Thought

Cover of We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel
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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
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A Torah Giant: The Intel­lec­tu­al Lega­cy of Rab­bi Dr. Irv­ing (Yitz) Greenberg
Shmuly Yanklowitz, ed.
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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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Moder­ni­ty and the Jews in West­ern Social Thought
Chad Alan Goldberg
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Pious Irrev­er­ence: Con­fronting God in Rab­binic Judaism
Dov Weiss
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Movies and Midrash: Pop­u­lar Film and Jew­ish Reli­gious Conversation
Wendy I. Zierler
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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
Shai Held
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