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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)