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    Items with the tag:

    talmud

    Cover of The Eating Knife
    Poet­ry
    The Eat­ing Knife
    Ayelet Amit­tay
    Cover of To You I Call: Psalms Throughout Our Lives
    Jew­ish Text
    To You I Call: Psalms Through­out Our Lives
    Jade Sank Ross
    Essay

    Hope Beyond Despair: The Time­less Gift of Psalms

    Jade Sank Ross
    December 9, 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
    Cover of The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud
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    The Mad­woman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Reread­ing the Women of the Talmud
    Gila Fine
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    Baby­lon­ian Jews and Sasan­ian Impe­ri­al­ism in Late Antiquity
    Sim­cha Gross
    Cover of How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book
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    How the Tal­mud Can Change Your Life: Sur­pris­ing­ly Mod­ern Advice from a Very Old Book
    Liel Lei­bovitz
    Essay

    Archi­tec­ture and Judaism: Under­stand­ing Our Built World through the Ages

    Joshua Skarf
    October 6, 2023
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    Chil­dren’s
    Zhen Yu and the Snake
    Erica Lyons; Renia Metallinou, illus.
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    Open Judaism: A Guide for Believ­ers, Athe­ists, and Agnostics
    Bar­ry L. Schwartz
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    Hind­sight is 2020: Torah Lessons from a Tur­bu­lent Time
    Margie Cel­la
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    Mir­a­cles Are What You Make of Them
    Corinne Cop­nick
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    Sus­te­nance: A Tal­mu­dic and Culi­nary Explo­ration of Women in Judaism

    Thursday, June 1, 2023
    6–8:45pm

    Yeshi­v­at Hadar, 190 Ams­ter­dam Ave, New York, NY 10023

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    The Sages: Char­ac­ter, Con­text and Cre­ativ­i­ty, Vol. V: The Yeshiv­ot of Baby­lo­nia and Israel
    Binyamin Lau; Ilana Kur­shan, trans.
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    Nuri and the Whale
    Ronit Chacham; Moran Yogev, illus.
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