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Preeminent scholar and best-selling author James Kugel explains how his Orthodox faith and the study of the origins of the Bible are irreconcilable. Yet the guru for disillusioned yeshiva students is a genuine believer in both. by Michael Orbach
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We pose these fundamental—and essential—questions to a range of thinkers from around the globe, including Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Phyllis Chesler, Jeremy Cohen, Irwin Cotler, Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi, Avner Falk, David Mamet, David Nirenberg, Cynthia Ozick, Shlomo Sand, Charles Asher Small, Eli Valley and Xu Xin. Interviews by Moment staff
THE SECRET HISTORY OF X & O
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THE NOTHING OF HISTORY
A young couple grappling with loss travels to Lithuania in an attempt to re-discover their heritage—and one another. by Lauren Watel
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Sarah Posner | Help Wanted: An ADL leader for a new era
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The truth behind bubbe meise
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What does Jewish law say about contraception?
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Jane Shore: I Won’t Be Buried in the Family Plot
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BOOKS
Little Failure: A Memoir reviewed by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution reviewed by Jerome A. Chanes
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