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  • Abortion Before Roe: ‘I Was Ready to Kill Myself’
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    Abortion Before Roe: ‘I Was Ready to Kill Myself’
    Abortion Before Roe: ‘I Was Ready to Kill Myself’

    For Nice Jewish Girls, abortion in the pre-Roe v. Wade era was excruciatingly shameful.

    For Nice Jewish Girls, abortion in the pre-Roe v. Wade era was excruciatingly shameful.

  • RBG’s Brave & Brilliant Women
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    RBG’s Brave & Brilliant Women
    RBG’s Brave & Brilliant Women

    A curated list of 33 inspiring women that includes trailblazers from the Bible through the 20th century.

    A curated list of 33 inspiring women that includes trailblazers from the Bible through the 20th century.

  • People Love Dead Jews
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    People Love Dead Jews
    People Love Dead Jews

    At its core, People Love Dead Jews is a meditation on time and identity in which Horn ultimately reasserts the vitality of Jewish life.

    At its core, People Love Dead Jews is a meditation on time and identity in which Horn ultimately reasserts the vitality of Jewish life.

  • Must-Reads for Jewish Women
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    Must-Reads for Jewish Women
    Must-Reads for Jewish Women

    The novels and stories that capture our imaginations and are close to our hearts.

    The novels and stories that capture our imaginations and are close to our hearts.

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The Betrayers: A Novel
by Stewart Kampel
Set in Crimea, this books relates a story that is simple on its surface but deeply scrutinizes ethical judgments, even though the events transpire in only one day.
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Biographies of Ben-Gurion, Begin
by Peter Ephross
Begin only features as a minor player in Anita Shapira’s biography of David Ben-Gurion, but Israel's first leader is a major foil in Daniel Gordis’s "Menachem Begin: The
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Nazis, Islamists and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Jack Fischel
Both an Arab nationalist and an Islamic fundamentalist, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini sided with Nazi Germany during World War II and agitated against the Jews.
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Beyond the Forest
by Zelda Shluker
By 2008, Kantor's pictures are in color and include more people—a young woman and her baby, children rehearsing to perform at a retirement home, a table spread with
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Book Excerpt: The Golem and the Jinni
by Helene Wecker
Chava is a golem, alone in the world after the man for whom she was created died on the journey to America. Ahmad is a
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The Rebbe, Three Views: A Book Roundup
by David Wolpe
My Rebbe by Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. (Maggid, 250 pp. $24.95) Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History by
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No Better Time: The Brief Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin
by Ronda Robinson
No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet The premise of No Better Time—that Israeli Internet pioneer
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A Replacement Life
by Stewart Kampel
A Replacement Life: A Novel by Boris Fishman. (Harper, 336 pp. $25.99)   Few authors generate the hosannas that greeted Boris Fishman for his debut novel, A

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