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    From Ene­my to Friend: Jew­ish Wis­dom and the Pur­suit of Peace
    Amy Eil­berg
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    Leo Strauss: Man of Peace
    Robert Lloyd Howse
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    Div­ing for Pearls: A Think­ing Jour­ney with Han­nah Arendt
    Kath­leen Jones
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    The Last Inter­view: And Oth­er Conversations
    Han­nah Arendt
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    Mai­monides: Life and Thought
    Moshe Halbertal
    Essay

    On Writ­ing a Fic­tion­al­ized Account of Baruch Spin­oza­’s Family

    Ear­li­er this week, Gabi Gle­ich­mann wrote about the gen­e­sis of his debut nov­el and his fas­ci­na­tion with read­ing and writ­ing. His debut nov­el, The Elixir of…
    Gabi Gle­ich­mann
    October 4, 2013
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    Toward a Renewed Eth­ic of Jew­ish Philanthropy
    Yossi Prager, ed.; Robert Hirt, series ed.
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    The Lega­cy of Moses and Akhenaten
    Sheldon Louis Lebold
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    Wis­dom for Peo­ple of All Faiths
    Evan Moff­ic
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    Adiron­dack Mendel’s Aufruf: Wel­come to Chelm’s Pond
    Sandor Schuman, illustrated by Kevin Kuhne
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    Torah Of Reconciliation
    Shel­don J. Lewis
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    Replace­ment Child
    Judy L. Mandel
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    Because All Is One
    Ariel Stone
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    In Search of the Spir­i­tu­al: Gabriel Mar­cel, Psy­cho­analy­sis and the Sacred
    Paul Marcus
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    Lev­inas and the Cri­sis of Humanism
    Claire Elise Katz
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    Men­sch-Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi―Wisdom for Unteth­ered Times
    Joshua Ham­mer­man
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