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| The World According to God | |
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| Oh, My God | |
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| In the Beginning | |
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| Somebody Had To Do It | |
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| Just One | |
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| False Gods | |
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| Not Two | |
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| Not Three | |
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| The King and I | |
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| God Is Good | |
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| Two Names: Tough Love | |
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| Different Names for Different Strokes | |
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| Father and Mother | |
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| How Do We Know It's True? | |
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| Man and Woman | |
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| One God--One Man | |
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| What Is a Human Being? | |
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| Take Care of Your Body | |
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| Healthy in Body | |
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| Do Not Desecrate | |
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| Watch Out For Your Soul | |
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| In His Image | |
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| Does God Look Like Us? | |
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| Are We Just Like God? | |
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| Hasidim versus Mitnagdin | |
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| One God--Two Sexes | |
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| Vive La Difference | |
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| Bone Is Stronger than Dust | |
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| Separate, but Not Always Equal | |
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| You Have a Choice | |
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| Gotta Have Free Will | |
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| "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" | |
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| A Partner with God | |
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| A World Left Unfinished | |
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| "Tikun Olam" | |
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| Friends | |
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| Take Two Tablets | |
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| Two Kinds of Commandments | |
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| Why Noah Wasn't the First Jew | |
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| A "Pious Fool" | |
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| Judaism on One Foot | |
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| Two Temples Destroyed | |
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| It's More than Charity | |
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| It's Not Just Money | |
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| We're All in One Boat | |
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| The Jew and the World | |
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| A Kingdom of Priests | |
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| The Messianic Vision | |
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| Law and Order | |
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| The Final Exam | |
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| Deed over Creed | |
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| You Can Do It! | |
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| Do We Need God to Be Good? | |
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| We Need Help! | |
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| Lighting Our Way | |
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| Laws That Don't Make Sense | |
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| Does God Really Care? | |
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| The Mitzvah and the Golden Mean | |
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| It's a Wonderful World | |
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| "And Behold It Was Good" | |
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| Enjoy Yourself | |
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| Christian Ideals-Jewish Sins | |
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| The Sin of Celibacy | |
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| The Sin of Poverty | |
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| The Sin of Solitude | |
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| Life Above All | |
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| Please Break the Law | |
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| The Sin of Suicide | |
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| After the Final Curtain | |
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| Read All About It | |
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| The World's Best-Seller | |
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| A Pentateuch, Not a Pentium | |
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| Take a Good Shot | |
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| "Give Me Five" | |
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| Seek and You Shall Find | |
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| The Fox and the Fish | |
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| Some of My Best Friends Are Jewish | |
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| The Biblical Heroes | |
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| Abraham | |
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| Sarah | |
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| Isaac and Rebecca | |
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| Jacob | |
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| Rachel | |
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| The Twelve Tribes | |
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| Moses | |
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| Aaron | |
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| Stories with a Message | |
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| Ideas Worth Remembering | |
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| "It's the Law" | |
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| The Beginning and the End | |
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| There's More to the Bible | |
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| Bring Down the Curtain | |
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| The Three Levels | |
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| We're Not a "Non-Prophet" Organization | |
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| Nathan | |
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| Isaiah | |
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| Jeremiah | |
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| Elijah | |
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| Ezekiel | |
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| "Psalm" of These Days | |
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| Too Sexy for the Bible? | |
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| The Most Sacred of All | |
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| Sex Is Beautiful | |
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| Why Do Good People Suffer? | |
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| The Trial of Job | |
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| We Can't Know It All | |
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| You Heard It Here First | |
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| Have a "Nosh" of Wise Sayings | |
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| The Laws and the Legends | |
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| The Mission of the Mishna | |
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| Six Parts of the Mishna | |
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| It's the Doing that Counts | |
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| What's Oral Law? | |
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| Don't Write It Down! | |
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| The Ethics of the Fathers | |
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| The Wisdom of the Talmud | |
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| And Then There Was the Gemara | |
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| Talk about Dedication | |
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| Such a Catch! | |
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| A Page a Day | |
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| What's So Interesting?? | |
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| Question Everything | |
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| But Why Is That the Law? | |
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| Two Men in the Desert | |
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| The Concentration Camp Question | |
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| The Insights of the Midrash | |
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| The Later Voices of Judaism | |
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| Explaining the Texts | |
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| Rashi's Wisdom | |
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| His Commentary Everywhere | |
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| From Rashi to Einstein | |
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| Exploring the Secrets | |
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| Mysticism and the Kabbalah | |
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| "My Little Monster" | |
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| The Bible Codes | |
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| Challenging Faith | |
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| The 13 Principles | |
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| Applying the Laws | |
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| "The Strong Hand" | |
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| "The Prepared Table" | |
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| Personal Questions | |
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| "Dear R-abby" | |
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| Can I Do It By Phone? | |
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| Can I Buy Insurance? | |
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| Must He Atone For His Sin? | |
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| Modern-Day Problems | |
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| The Time of Your Life | |
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| The Jewish Calendar | |
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| Less Than 6,000 Years | |
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| Jews Begin with Adam | |
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| But What About All Those Billions of Years? | |
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| Planet of the Apes | |
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| A Monthly Honeymoon | |
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| Life Isn't Always "Sunny" | |
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| Twelve Months--But Sometimes Thriteen | |
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| A Holiday Every Month (Almost) | |
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| Hooray: Two New Years | |
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| T.G.I.S.: Thank God It's Shabbat | |
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| Why the Days Don't Have Names | |
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| Take a Rest | |
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| Light My Fire | |
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| Tell Me You Love Me | |
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| A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Challah | |
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| Revive Me When It's Over | |
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| The High Holy Days | |
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| Man, They Are Awesome | |
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| The Top Ten--Jewish Style | |
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| Judgment Day | |
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| "I'll Give You One More Chance" | |
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| Come Blow Your Horn | |
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| "They're Playing Our Song" | |
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| Sweet Dreams | |
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| Down by the Riverside | |
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| Love Is Having To Say You're Sorry | |
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| Confession Isn't Enough | |
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| What God Can't Forgive | |
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| The Day of "At-One-Ment" | |
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| Why We're Optimistic | |
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| No Fast Food | |
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| All My Promises | |
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| A Fishy Story | |
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| The Essence of Yom Kippur | |
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| The Coffin in the Synagogue | |
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| It's Historical: The Three Feet | |
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| Don't Pass Over Passover | |
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| The Five Names of the Holiday | |
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| The Jewish Last Supper | |
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| "Can I Please Have Your Order?" | |
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| Get That Bread Out of Here! | |
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| Shavuot: Seven Times Seven | |
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| The Middle Man | |
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| The Annual All-Nighter | |
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| Let's Decorate | |
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| Sukkot: Live in a Booth | |
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| A House Is Not a Home | |
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| Four Kinds of Jews | |
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| Simchat Torah: Make a Circle | |
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| History and Agriculture | |
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| Feasting and Fasting | |
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| Purim--Winning The Lottery | |
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| There's No Such Thing as Coincidence | |
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| The Holiday That Keeps on Happening | |
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| I'll Drink to That | |
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| Hiss the Villain | |
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| Hanukkah: It's Not That "Other" Holiday | |
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| It's Greek to Me | |
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| If I Had a Hammer | |
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| The First Oil Shortage | |
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| "Come on Baby Light My Fire" | |
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| Put a Good Spin on It | |
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| Remember the Sad Times | |
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| Spring Has Sprung | |
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| The Twentieth Century Holidays | |
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| From the Cradle to the Grave | |
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| "Mazel Tov": It's a Boy/Girl | |
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| You Gotta Have 'Em | |
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| "Mazel Tov" | |
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| Choose a Name | |
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| Your Name Is Your Soul | |
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| Circumcision Is a Covenant | |
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| Come Join the Party | |
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| "Redeem" Your Firstborn | |
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| "Today I Am A Man" | |
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| Girls Mature Faster | |
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| Members of the Wedding | |
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| So When Are You Getting Married? | |
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| "Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A Match" | |
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| Finding Your Soul Mate | |
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| What a Beautiful Ceremony | |
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| No See, No Eat | |
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| The Tallit and the Veil | |
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| Down the Aisle | |
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| Under the Chuppah | |
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| Round and Round | |
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| The Marriage Contract | |
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| The Ring | |
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| Wine and Blessings | |
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| Let's Break a Glass | |
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| Just the Two of Us | |
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| Advice for the Couple | |
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| Ten Rules for a Successful Marriage | |
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| But If It Doesn't Work Out | |
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| Death Be Not Proud | |
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| Leaving This World | |
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| Is This All There Is? | |
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| But How Could There Be Life After Death? | |
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| Saying Goodbye | |
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| Mourning the Dead | |
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| Sitting Shiva | |
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| The Next Stages of Mourning | |
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| The Mourner's Kaddish | |
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| Why Eleven Months? | |
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| The Grave and the Stone | |
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| Reincarnation? | |
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| All in the Family: The Home | |
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| Welcome to My Humble Abode | |
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| Watch the Door, Please | |
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| The Purpose of the Mezuzzah | |
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| What's Inside the Box? | |
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| Every Door Needs One | |
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| Put the Right Slant on It | |
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| Hanukkah for a House? | |
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| Why Didn't You Finish It? | |
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| Which Way Is East? | |
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| And the Very Best Way to Tell a Jewish Home | |
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| The Kitchen | |
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| Kosher Is More than Clean | |
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| It's Not Health Food--It's Holy Food | |
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| You Are What You Eat | |
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| What's In and What's Out | |
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| Be Kind to Animals | |
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| Merciful Killing | |
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| Do Unto Others | |
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| Please Salt It First | |
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| Blood Libel? No Way | |
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| A Cheeseburger--Yecchhh! | |
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| Adam and Eve Were Vegetarians | |
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| Not Healthy, Not Kosher | |
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| The Dining Room | |
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| Wait--Don't Start Eating Yet! | |
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| Don't Take Miracles for Granted | |
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| Jewish Penicillin | |
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| Homemade Chicken Soup | |
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| Matzah Balls | |
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| Special Foods for All Seasons | |
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| Shabbat | |
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| The Holidays | |
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| Graceland--For Jews | |
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| The Bedroom | |
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| Sex Is Kosher | |
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| Sex--You Can't Do Without It | |
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| How Often? | |
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| Travel for Business? | |
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| Always on Shabbat | |
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| Getting to Know You | |
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| Have an Affair with Your Wife | |
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| With Love and Mutual Consent | |
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| But Sometimes It's a No-No | |
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| The Jewish Bathhouse | |
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| Place of Purification | |
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| The Child's Room | |
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| Bringing Up Baby | |
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| When Do You Start? | |
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| Learn the Letters with Honey | |
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| How To Be a Good Parent | |
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| God Never Said It'd Be Easy | |
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| Honor Mom and Dad | |
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| Love First, Money Second | |
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| You'll Get Your Reward | |
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| The Synagogue | |
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| Let's Take a Tour | |
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| What's the Name on the Door? | |
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| The House of Gathering | |
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| The House Of Prayer | |
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| The House of Study | |
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| So Which One Do You Belong to? | |
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| Is That the Lost Ark? | |
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| East Is East and West Is West | |
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| Look at the "Furniture" | |
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| Who Are These People? | |
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| Meet the Rabbi | |
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| Listen to the Cantor | |
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| What's a Sexton? | |
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| The Lay Leaders | |
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| Why Is Everybody Talking? | |
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| Let Us Pray | |
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| But Why Should I Pray? | |
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| The Three Kinds of Prayer | |
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| Praising God | |
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| Prayers of Request | |
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| Prayers of Thanks | |
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| God, Am I Bothering You Too Much? | |
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| Take It Three Times a Day with Meals | |
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| But Why Not Only When I Feel Like It? | |
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| Take a Prayer Book, Please | |
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| Some Favorite Prayer Book Passages | |
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| The Sh'ma | |
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| Stand Up and Be Heard | |
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| And in Closing | |
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| Stop the Services | |
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| "Feelings..." | |
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| Synagogue Fashion | |
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| Fringe Benefits | |
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| But We Don't Wear Ponchos | |
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| The Long Form | |
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| The Short Form | |
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| Put a Box on Your Head and Your Hand | |
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| What Are the Tefillin? | |
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| The Other Hand, Please | |
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| What If You're Ambidextrous? | |
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| Getting Married to God | |
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| Jews Really Don't Have Horns | |
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| Take It Off | |
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| Take Off Your Hat--Not! | |
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| Showing Respect | |
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| The Crucial Questions | |
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| What Kind of Judaism? | |
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| Orthodox Judaism | |
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| The Past Is Holy | |
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| The Future of Grandchildren | |
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| But Even Orthodox Jews Can Disagree | |
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| Reform Judaism | |
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| A Modern Code of Belief | |
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| A New Breed Emerging? | |
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| But Still Miles Apart | |
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| Conversion | |
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| By Mother...or Father? | |
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| Conservative Judaism | |
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| Let's Compromise | |
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| Reconstructionist Judaism | |
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| Culture Is Holy | |
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| Hasidic Judaism | |
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| My "Rebbe" Is Holy | |
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| Secular Judaism | |
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| Is "Secular Judaism" An Oxymoron? | |
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| What's Most Important? | |
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| Be Holy | |
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| Holy Moses--I'm Not Moses | |
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| Be a Blessing | |
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| The Donkey and the Diamond | |
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| "Sanctify God's Name" | |
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| Bring Them Back | |
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| Be an Israeli | |
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| "If You Will It, It Is No Dream" | |
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| The Prisoner's Problem | |
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| The Sentence that Says It All | |
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| Any Questions from the Floor? | |
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| Is Heaven Only for Jews? | |
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| Waiting for Messiah | |
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| Does Adoption Make It My Child? | |
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| The Chosen People? | |
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| An Eye for an Eye--Ouch! | |
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| Kill the Bum? | |
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| Can I Lie Just a Little? | |
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| My Son, the Astronaut? | |
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| Life On Mars? | |
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| Is Star Trek's Mr. Spock Jewish? | |
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| Are Bacteria Kosher? | |
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| Now You See It, Now You Don't | |
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| A Six-Pointed Question | |
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| "I Changed My Name" | |
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| "Love Your Eyes--Can I Have Them, Please?" | |
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| Two to One | |
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| Just Like the Amish | |
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| Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | |
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| Bet I Can Go to Vegas | |
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| Don't "Take It Easy" | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Appendices | |
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| The 24 Books of the Jewish Bible | |
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| The Months of the Year in the Jewish Calendar | |
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| More Good Books to Help You Become a Genius on Judaism | |
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| Index | |