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    Excerpt — The Place of All Pos­si­bil­i­ty: Cul­ti­vat­ing Cre­ativ­i­ty Through Ancient Jew­ish Wisdom

    Adi­na Allen
    August 5, 2024
    The Triumph of Life
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    The Tri­umph of Life: A Nar­ra­tive The­ol­o­gy of Judaism
    Irv­ing Greenberg
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    Don’t Want to Be Your Monster
    Deke Moul­ton
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    Tra­di­tion in an Untra­di­tion­al Age
    Jonathan Sacks
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    Shy­lock­’s Venice: The Remark­able His­to­ry of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
    Har­ry Freedman
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    JBC Staff
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    Car­ry­ing a Big Schtick: Jew­ish Accul­tur­a­tion and Mas­culin­i­ty in the Twen­ti­eth Century
    Miri­am Eve Mora
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    Jew­ish Space Lasers: The Roth­schilds and 200 Years of Con­spir­a­cy Theories
    Mike Roth­schild
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    Lotus Girl: My Life at the Cross­roads of Bud­dhism and America
    Helen Tworkov
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    Com­mu­ni­ties of Mean­ing: Con­ver­sa­tions on Mod­ern Jew­ish Life Inspired by Rab­bi Lar­ry Hoffman
    Joseph A. Skloot and Lisa J. Grushcow, eds. 
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    Demys­ti­fy­ing Anti­semitism with Stars and Sitcoms

    Jonathan Branf­man
    June 17, 2024
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    Woven Roots: Recov­er­ing the Heal­ing Plant Tra­di­tions of Jews and Their Neigh­bors in East­ern Europe
    Deatra Cohen
    Adam Siegel
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    What Jew­ish Looks Like
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    Ezra-Nehemi­ah: Ret­ro­grade Revolution
    Yael Lei­bowitz
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    Leah Hager Cohen
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