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  Certain Girls

  by Jennifer Weiner

  Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine. Now Cannie's back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an... (more)
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  On the Wings of Shekhinah: Rediscovering Judaism's Divine Feminine

  by Leah Novick

  Translated from Hebrew and defined as the dwelling presence of God, Shekhinah is the feminine face of God in Judaism. Novick combs Jewish history and scripture to reveal evidence of Judaism's rich history of the Sacred Feminine. She explores how the concept of a feminine aspect of Yahweh developed and was preserved in the tradition. Novick calls Judaism to come to terms with its pagan past and acknowledge the... (more)
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  "Yiddishe Mamas" : the truth about the Jewish mother

  by Marnie Winston-Macauley

  Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother by Marnie Winston-Macauley is an eye-popping view of this often maligned, consistently misunderstand "stereotype." In Ms. Winston-Macauley's well-honed hands, using her clinical, research and humor skills, she has created a small masterpiece which will evoke learning, laughter, and tears in the reader. Through interviews, history, anecdotes, facts, and... (more)