Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith
By: Jeffrey Bloom
4.04
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
More than three centuries after Baruch Spinoza’s excommunication from the Jewish community of Amste…
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1. The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning
By: Jonathan Sacks
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Writing with his usual grace and fluency, Jonathan Sacks moves beyond the tired arguments of milita… read more
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2. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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3. God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
By: Abraham Joshua Heschel
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of the 20th century, and God i… read more
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4. Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism: Secrets of "The Guide for the Perplexed"
By: None , None
4.16
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
A publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in Israel, the original Hebrew edit… read more
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5. The Lonely Man of Faith
By: Joseph B. Soloveitchik
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the rabbi known as "The Rav" by his followers worldwide, was a leading auth… read more
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6. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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7. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
By: Greg Lukianoff
3.93
Format: 432 pages, ebook
A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more
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"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
8. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
9. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
10. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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11. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
12. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more
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"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
13. Like a Rolling Stone
By: Jann S. Wenner
3.84
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offe… read more
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14. Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
By: Micah Goodman
4.27
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fr… read more
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15. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
By: Jonathan Freedland
4.37
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more
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16. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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17. Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?
By: Daniel Gordis
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On Israel's seventy-fifth anniversary comes a nuanced examination of the country's past, present, a… read more
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"Very little that happens in Israel is divorced from memory."-Daniel Gordis, Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?
18. Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
By: Shai Held
4.57
Format: 546 pages, Hardcover
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish … read more
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19. Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought
By: David Bashevkin
4.27
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
"A manual for living with defeat" ―Tablet It is no more possible to think about religion without si… read more
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20. Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship
By: Meir Y. Soloveichik
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Ever since Plato’s Republic , the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and … read more
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21. Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
By: Peter Brooks
3.44
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can def… read more
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22. To This Very Day: Fundamental Questions in the Bible Study
By: Amnon Bazak
4.52
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
In recent generations, there has been a renaissance of Tanakh study among Jewry in general, and in … read more
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23. Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith
By: Joshua A. Berman
4.51
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
For two centuries the academic study of the Bible has confronted the believing Jew with the most ch… read more
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24. The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity
By: Micah Goodman
4.13
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated Israeli author explores the roots of the divide between religion and secularism in Isr… read more
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25. My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner
By: Chaim Grade
4.55
Format: 22 pages, ebook
For centuries they speculated, they talked, and they wrote. Does duty to nation and family come fir… read more
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26. The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 (Dangerous Nation Trilogy)
By: Robert Kagan
4.47
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive, sweeping history of America's rise to global superpower--a follow up to the author… read more
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27. The Telling: How Judaism's Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life
By: Mark Gerson
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Los Angeles Times Best-Seller In The Telling , Mark Gerson, host of The Rabbi's Husband podcast an… read more
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28. Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith
By: Jeffrey Bloom
4.04
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
More than three centuries after Baruch Spinoza’s excommunication from the Jewish community of Amste… read more
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29. Rationalism vs. Mysticism; Schisms in Traditional Judaism
By: Natan Slifkin
4.57
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
KNOWLEDGE Do we obtain reliable knowledge about the world from ongoing supernatural revelation, or … read more
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30. A Guide for the Jewish Undecided
By: Samuel Lebens
4.18
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
What makes a belief or a lifestyle rational? How much evidence do you need before deciding to act o… read more
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31. We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other
By: Menachem Kellner
4.20
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed addressed Jews of his day who felt challenged by apparent contra… read more
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