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January 17, 2020

Love Drones by Noam Dorr

In Love Drones, Noam Dorr explores the troubling relationship between our desire for intimacy and the world of military action, state violence, and intelligence surveillance. Born and raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Dorr...

Studies in Tractate Eruvin of the Talmud Bavli: Structure, Language, Redaction, and Halakha by Uri Zur

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January 16, 2020

Studies in Tractate Eruvin of the Talmud Bavli: Structure, Language, Redaction, and Halakha by Uri Zur

Topics discussed in this volume include different types of structure in Talmudic texts from a literary point of view; the study of the Aramaic language utilized in the Bible and the Talmud from a...

Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) by Boris Fishman

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January 16, 2020

Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) by Boris Fishman

The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an immigrant story, a love story, and an epic meal, Savage Feast explores...

I Am for My Beloved: A Guide to Enhanced Intimacy for Married Couples by David S. Ribner, Talli Y. Rosenbaum

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January 15, 2020

I Am for My Beloved: A Guide to Enhanced Intimacy for Married Couples by David S. Ribner, Talli Y. Rosenbaum

Forthright and frank, yet respectful and sensitive, “I Am for My Beloved: A Guide to Enhanced Intimacy for Married Couples” will help couples enrich their marital and sexual lives, and maintain passion and intimacy...

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January 15, 2020

Fly Already by Etgar Keret

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don’t worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You’re a rich, lonely man...

Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews: A Contemporary Jewish Theology by Jerome Yehuda Gellman

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January 14, 2020

Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews: A Contemporary Jewish Theology by Jerome Yehuda Gellman

That the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, “the God of the Jews,” is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts of that God, by contemporary standards, as well as by...

In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family by Lis Harris

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January 14, 2020

In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family by Lis Harris

An American, secular, diasporic Jew, Lis Harris grew up with the knowledge of the historical wrongs done to Jews. In adulthood, she developed a growing awareness of the wrongs they in turn had done...

What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation by Mimi Lemay

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January 13, 2020

What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation by Mimi Lemay

From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born “Em,” adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand and come to terms with the fact that her child may...

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January 13, 2020

The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi,...

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December 13, 2019

Welcome to Chanu-Con! by Beth Rodgers

Illustrator: Howard Fridson Join Max and his sister Lila as they navigate their synagogue’s Chanukah extravaganza, “Chanu-Con!” Their day’s highlights include making a human menorah, dipping Chanukah candles, tasting latkes and Chanukah treats, and...

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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht

Love Drones by Noam Dorr

Studies in Tractate Eruvin of the Talmud Bavli: Structure, Language, Redaction, and Halakha by Uri Zur

Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) by Boris Fishman

I Am for My Beloved: A Guide to Enhanced Intimacy for Married Couples by David S. Ribner, Talli Y. Rosenbaum

Fly Already by Etgar Keret

Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews: A Contemporary Jewish Theology by Jerome Yehuda Gellman

In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family by Lis Harris

What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation by Mimi Lemay

The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

Welcome to Chanu-Con! by Beth Rodgers

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