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    After Rev­e­la­tion: The Rab­binic Past in the Medieval Islam­ic World
    Marc D. Herman
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    Stefanie Halpern
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    Marc Michael Epstein
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    Andrew Por­wanch­er
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    Nir Ariel­li
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    The Torah of Leadership
    Eri­ca Brown
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    ‘Lan­guage Is Always in Motion’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Han­nah Pollin-Galay

    Isado­ra Kianovsky 
    September 16, 2024
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    It Takes Two to Torah: An Ortho­dox Rab­bi and Reform Jour­nal­ist Dis­cuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses
    Abi­gail Pogrebin
    Dov Linz­er
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    Rab­bi Bri­an’s High­ly Unortho­dox Gospel: A Mod­ern Guide to Com­pas­sion, Kind­ness, and Love. For Oth­ers. And, Self.
    Bri­an Zachary Mayer
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    Frac­tured Tablets: For­get­ful­ness and Fal­li­bil­i­ty in Late Ancient Rab­binic Culture
    Mira Bal­berg
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    New Israeli Hor­ror: Local Cin­e­ma, Glob­al Genre
    Olga Ger­shen­son
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    Why Rain Comes from Above: Explo­rations in Reli­gious Imagination
    Devo­ra Steinmetz
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    Write like a Man: Jew­ish Mas­culin­i­ty and the New York Intellectuals
    Ron­nie A. Grinberg
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    The Light of Learn­ing: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust
    Glenn Dyn­ner
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    Baby­lon­ian Jews and Sasan­ian Impe­ri­al­ism in Late Antiquity
    Sim­cha Gross
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