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    Torah & Text

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    Learn­ing to Read Tal­mud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens
    Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman, eds.
    Essay

    30 Days, 30 Authors: Ilana Kurshan

    Ilana Kur­shan
    December 6, 2017
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    Jews, Gen­tiles, and Oth­er Ani­mals: The Tal­mud After the Humanities
    Mira Beth Wasserman
    Essay

    The Dra­ma of the Tal­mu­dic Page

    Ruby Nam­dar
    November 8, 2017
    Essay

    How I Stopped Wor­ry­ing and Learned to Love the Holy Temple

    Ruby Nam­dar
    November 6, 2017
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    The Heart of Torah, Vol­ume 2
    Shai Held
    Essay

    The Female Heroes of David and the Philis­tine Woman

    Paul Boorstin
    August 10, 2017
    Essay

    Why I Told David’s Sto­ry — and Why David Mat­ters Now

    Paul Boorstin
    August 8, 2017
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    The Heart of Torah, Vol­ume 1
    Shai Held
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    Jus­tice for All: How the Jew­ish Bible Rev­o­lu­tion­ized Ethics
    Jeremiah Unterman
    Essay

    The Bib­li­cal Inspi­ra­tions for My Fan­ta­sy Series

    Noah Beit-Aharon
    May 22, 2017
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    Unusu­al Bible Inter­pre­ta­tions: Ruth, Esther, and Judith
    Israel Drazin
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    Poet­ry
    Poets of the Bible
    Willis Barn­stone
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    Thank You G‑d For Mak­ing Me a Woman
    Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin
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    David and the Philis­tine Woman
    Paul Boorstin
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    If All the Seas Were Ink
    Ilana Kurshan Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
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