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    Essay

    Sukkot and Social Justice

    Rab­bi Jill Jacobs is the author of Where Jus­tice Dwells: A Hands-On-Guide for Doing Social Jus­tice in Your Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty (Jew­ish Lights).My…
    Jill Jacobs
    October 11, 2011
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    Chil­dren’s
    Light the Menorah
    Jannie Ho, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Passover: Cel­e­brat­ing Now, Remem­ber­ing Then
    Harriet Ziefert; Karla Gudeon, illus.
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Jew­ish Way: Liv­ing the Holidays
    Irv­ing Greenberg
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    Chil­dren’s
    Can­dles in My Window
    Beth Firestone
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    Chil­dren’s
    Eight Win­ter Nights: A Fam­i­ly Hanukkah Book
    Laura Krauss Melmed; Elizabeth Schlossberg, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Great Mat­zoh Hunt
    Jannie Ho
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    Chil­dren’s
    Hap­py Hanukkah, Corduroy
    Don Freeman; Lisa McCue, illus.
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    Shab­bat: The Fam­i­ly Guide to Prepar­ing for and Wel­com­ing the Sabbath
    Dr. Ron Wolfson
    Essay

    Feast of Famine

    Lau­ren Shock­ey is the author of Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burn­er in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris. She offered thoughts on Yom Kip­pur and break fast…
    Lau­ren Shockey
    October 10, 2011
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    A Tale of Two Seders
    Mindy Avra Portnoy; Valerio Cis, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Dear Tree
    Doba Rivka Weber; Phyllis Saroff, illus.
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    Cakes and Mir­a­cles: A Purim Tale
    Barbara Diamond Goldin; Jaime Zollars, illus.
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    Hanukkah at Val­ley Forge
    Steven Krensky; Greg Harlin, illus.
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    Jew­ish Hol­i­days: A Brief Intro­duc­tion for Christians
    Rabbi Kerry Olitzky and Rabbi Daniel Judson
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    Repen­tance: The Mean­ing and Prac­tice of Teshuvah
    Dr. Louis E. Newman
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