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God In Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel

( A remarkable statement of faith, belief, and the core of what religion, at its best is, and more often should be)

The Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

(a powerful novel written from the perspective of a woman who faces the challenges of transition form a European childhood into an American adolescence and adulthood

Defenders of the Faith by Samuel Heilman

(a fascinating, engaging study of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel. Positively enlightening)

The Natural and Supernatural Jew by Arthur A. Cohen

(though written forty years ago, and occasionally shows it, this book is a classic regarding how to think about God in a post-Holocaust world)

The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought by Neil Gillman

(an instant classic by one of the Conservative movement's leading thinkers)

The Art of Public Prayer: Not for Clergy Only by Lawrence Hoffman

(One of the Reform Movement's greatest teachers and the preeminent scholar of Jewish Liturgy in the English speaking world takes us into the heart of the worship experience and offers a clear vision of what worship can be)

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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn

The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg

Shirei Yerushalayim - Poems of Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai (not available thru Amazon)

Self, Struggle & Change: Family Conflict Stories in Genesis and Their
Healing Insights for Our Lives by Norman J. Cohen

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Women of Valor: Stories of Great Jewish Women Who Helped Shape the Twentieth Century by Sheila F. Segal

The Vanishing American Jew : In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century by Alan M. Dershowitz

The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish America by Diana Bletter

Remarkable Jewish Women: Rebels, Rabbis, and Other Women from Biblical Times to the Present by Emily Taitz & Sondra Henry

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig

Strangers to the Tribe by Gabrielle Glaser

How Good Do We Have To Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness by Harold S. Kushner

The Jews in the Time of Jesus by Stephen M. Wylen

 In November 1997, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie encouraged every Reform Jew to read significant Jewish books a year. Since then, the URJ has selected eight volumes each year and prepared study guides for them.

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