Non-Halakhic Progressive Jewish Learning
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A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969
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Noam Sienna
4.49 avg rating — 103 ratings 2. 
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Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
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Anita Diamant
4.22 avg rating — 2,380 ratings 4. 
On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine 4.08 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora
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Ella Shohat
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 7. 
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders
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Joy Ladin
3.80 avg rating — 324 ratings 8. 
The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective (HBI Series on Jewish Women)
by:
Joy Ladin
4.24 avg rating — 92 ratings 9. 
Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible
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Gregg Drinkwater
4.39 avg rating — 106 ratings 
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Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism
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Elly Bulkin
4.18 avg rating — 93 ratings 14. 
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We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands
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Rachel Shabi
3.81 avg rating — 108 ratings 16. 
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat
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Ella Shohat
4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings 
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The Silver Meditation: Connect With God In a Simple Way That Works
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Edward Weiss
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Whose Torah?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism
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Rebecca Alpert
3.74 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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A Guide to Jewish Practice: Volume 2- Shabbat and Holidays
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David A. Teutsch
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 23. 
There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists 4.38 avg rating — 165 ratings
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A Guide to Jewish Practice, Vol. 1: Everyday Living
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David A. Teutsch
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings 25. 
Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism
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Shane Burley
4.53 avg rating — 100 ratings 27. 
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These Are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life
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Arthur Green
4.10 avg rating — 49 ratings 31. 
A Passionate Pacifist: Essential Writings of Aaron Samuel Tamares it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing 4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition (The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series)
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Arthur Green
4.22 avg rating — 177 ratings 35. 
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Jewish Dharma: A Guide to the Practice of Judaism and Zen
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Brenda Shoshanna
3.91 avg rating — 53 ratings 38. 
Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American Jewish Life 3.99 avg rating — 76 ratings
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What Do Jews Believe?: The Spiritual Foundations of Judaism
by:
David S. Ariel
3.85 avg rating — 150 ratings 41. 
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Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism
by:
Sarah Hurwitz
4.44 avg rating — 2,808 ratings 44. 
How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought
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Leora Batnitzky
3.97 avg rating — 106 ratings 
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Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices
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Amy K. Milligan
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 49. 
Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes
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Irena Klepfisz
4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation
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Adele Berlin
4.46 avg rating — 1,673 ratings 
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Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories
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Andrew Ramer
4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings 54. 
Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires (Io Series)
by:
Miryam Kabakov
4.25 avg rating — 80 ratings 
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Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens
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Jane L Kanarek
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 63. 
Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism
by:
Alain Brossat
4.29 avg rating — 320 ratings 64. 
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Thoughts From A Unicorn: 100% Black. 100% Jewish. 0% Safe.
by:
MaNishtana
3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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Return to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots
by:
Ilan Stavans
3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 70. 
The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America (Pitt Latin American Series)
by:
Ilan Stavans
3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America
by:
Ilan Stavans
3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl
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Marra B. Gad
4.02 avg rating — 1,577 ratings 
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How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America 3.66 avg rating — 277 ratings
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In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People
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Diane Tobin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings 
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The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today
by:
Jack Wertheimer
3.99 avg rating — 76 ratings 83. 
Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
by:
Alan Morinis
4.42 avg rating — 653 ratings 
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Judaisms: A Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities 4.47 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life: An InterfaithFamily.com Handbook
by:
Ronnie Friedland
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 90. 
Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew
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Anita Diamant
4.25 avg rating — 238 ratings 91. 
Secret Jews: The Complex Identity of Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Judaism 3.78 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community (Io Series)
by:
Noach Dzmura
4.30 avg rating — 125 ratings 
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This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
by:
Alan Lew
4.41 avg rating — 1,575 ratings 95. 
Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own
by:
Marge Piercy
3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings 96. 
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Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism
by:
Susannah Heschel
3.91 avg rating — 217 ratings 99. 
Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
by:
Danya Ruttenberg
4.15 avg rating — 502 ratings 100. 
Secular Spirituality: Passionate Journey to a Rational Judaism
by:
Dan Cohn-Sherbok
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating