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    Excerpt: Chas­ing Smoke

    Sar­it Pack­er & Ita­mar Srulovich
    May 10, 2021
    Essay

    When Some­body Dreams of a Bird: Avra­ham Chalfi 

    Atar Hadari
    April 5, 2021
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    Visu­al Arts
    Meet­ing Place
    Anat Propper Goldenberg
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    Excerpt: Jus­tice, Jus­tice Thou Shalt Pursue

    Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg, Aman­da L. Tyler
    March 16, 2021
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    Soosie: The Horse That Saved Shabbat
    Tami Lehman-Wilzig, Menahem Halberstadt (illus.)
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    Now at the Thresh­old: The Late Poems of Tuvia Ruebner
    Tuvia Ruebner, Rachel Tzvia Black (trans.)
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    When Rab­bis Bless Con­gress: The Great Amer­i­can Sto­ry of Jew­ish Prayers on Capi­tol Hill
    Howard Mort­man
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    The Mem­o­ry Monster
    Yishai Sarid
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    Inter­na­tion­al Jew­ish Human­i­tar­i­an­ism in the Age of the Great War
    Jaclyn Granick
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    The Real­ist

    Basia Wino­grad
    January 11, 2021
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    Han­nah Arendt and Lucy Daw­id­ow­icz: Zion­ism & Israel in the Minds of Two Great Intellectuals

    Thursday, February 25, 2021
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    The Won­der­ing Jew: Israel and the Search for Jew­ish Identity
    Micah Goodman, Eylon Levy (trans.)
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    Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin
    Tracy Newman, Abigail Halpin (illus.)
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    A Zom­bie Vacation
    Lisa Rose, Ángeles Ruiz (illus.)
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    How To Write Detec­tive Novels 

    Jonathan Dun­sky
    December 11, 2020
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    Eat­ing Out Loud: Bold Mid­dle East­ern Fla­vors for All Day, Every Day
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