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Nonfiction The Mussar Torah Commentary: A Spiritual Path to Living a Meaningful and Ethical Life Barry H. Block
Nonfiction Oranges for Eve: My Brave, Beautiful, Badass Journey to the Feminine Divine Tamara Kolton
Nonfiction Can Robots Be Jewish?: Inspirational Rabbis Answer Pressing Questions of Modern Life Amy E. Schwartz
‘Sacred Stories as Metaphor’: A Modern Retelling of Biblical Stories Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg August 19, 2019
Nonfiction A Year with Mordecai Kaplan: Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
Essay How Elie Wiesel Taught Me to Grapple with Difficult Religious Texts When a text disappoints us with an anti-human message, we will avoid the sin of premature forgiveness, of letting the text off the hook too easily. Ariel Burger February 26, 2019
Nonfiction From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey: A Commentary on Food in the Torah Diana Lipton
Children’s Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible Jane Yolen, Barbara Diamond Goldin; Vali Mintzi, illus.