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Essay Can Prayer Heal the World? Earlier this week, Rabbi Mordecai Schreiber shared how writing Why People Pray changed his life. He is guest blogging here all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series… Mordecai Schreiber June 2, 2016
Essay How Writing a Book about Why People Pray Changed My Life Between his travels around the world, Rabbi Mordecai Schreiber is set to publish his latest book, Why People Pray, later this month. He is guest blogging here all week as… Mordecai Schreiber May 31, 2016
Nonfiction After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition Hillel Halkin
Nonfiction Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; Ronald Heifetz, fwd.
Nonfiction The Sages: Character, Context and Creativity, Vol. IV: From the Mishna to the Talmud Binyamin Lau; Ilana Kurshan, trans.
Nonfiction The Bible Doesn’t Say That: 40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings Joel Hoffman
Nonfiction Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversation and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History Todd M. Endelman
