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Ritual & Practice

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Jews and Their Many Questions

Ear­li­er this week, Rab­bi Lawrence Hajioff wrote about how he approach­es chal­leng­ing queries and the ben­e­fits of crowd­fund­ing one’s book. His book, Jew Got…
Rab­bi Lawrence Hajioff
January 9, 2015
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Jew Got Questions?
Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff
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Chanah’s Voice: A Rab­bi Wres­tles with Gen­der, Com­mand­ment, and the Women’s Rit­u­als of Bak­ing, Bathing, and Brightening
Haviva Ner-David
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Holis­tic Prayer: A Guide to Jew­ish Spirituality
Avraham Weiss
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A Guide to Jew­ish Prac­tice, Vol­ume 2: Shab­bat and Holidays
David A. Teutsch, ed.
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Inter­nal Dia­logue: The Days of Awe 5775

Post­ed by Nat Bern­stein.Prayer doesn’t come eas­i­ly to every­one. Whether one con­sid­ers one­self reli­gious, spir­i­tu­al, obser­vant, or curi­ous, find­ing that opti­mum of…
Nat Bern­stein
September 22, 2014
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The Days Between: Bless­ings, Poems, and Direc­tions of the Heart for the Jew­ish High Hol­i­day Season
Mar­cia Falk
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Jew­ish Prayers of Hope and Healing
Alden Solovy
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Did Jew Know?: A Handy Primer on the Cus­toms, Cul­ture & Prac­tice of the Cho­sen People
Emi­ly Stone
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Jew­ish Men Pray: Words of Yearn­ing, Praise, Peti­tion, Grat­i­tude and Won­der from Tra­di­tion­al and Con­tem­po­rary Sources
Kerry M. Olitzky & Stuart M. Matlins, eds.
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Kad­dish: Wom­en’s Voices
Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas
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May God Remem­ber — Yizkor: Mem­o­ry and Memo­ri­al­iz­ing in Judaism (Prayers of Awe)
Lawrence A. Hoffman
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Dav­en­ing: A Guide to Mean­ing­ful Jew­ish Prayer
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Joel Segel; Kushner, fwd.
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Mov­ing For­ward: An Ancient Divorce Rit­u­al for the Mod­ern World
Mar­i­lyn Beloff
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Amer­i­can Jew­Bu: Jews, Bud­dhists, and Reli­gious Change
Emily Sigalow
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Cer­e­mo­ni­al Syn­a­gogue Textiles
Bracha Yaniv
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