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- JOB: Assistant or Associate Professor of Israel Studies, San Francisco State University  "Fred Astren" <fastren@sfsu.edu> - "Renewing the Colloque: Celebrating Levinas' Talmudic Readings @ 50", Center for Jewish History  "Judith Siegel" <jsiegel@CJH.ORG> - Toronto-Jerusalem house swap  "Dana Hollander" <danahol@mcmaster.ca> - Indiana University Graduate Fellowships in Jewish Studies 2009-2010  "Lipson-Walker, Carolyn Miriam" <clipsonw@indiana.edu> - Query: etrogim from the Caribbean  "Ari Zivotofsky" <zivotoa@mail.biu.ac.il> - JOB: advanced assistant or associate professor of American Jewish History, Temple University  Adam Mendelsohn <amend@BRANDEIS.EDU> - Visiting Fellowships in Jewish Thought, Princeton University  Adam Mendelsohn <amend@BRANDEIS.EDU>

Reviewer: Vanessa L. Ochs Title: Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation Author: Tova Hartman Reviewer: Alex Jassen Title: Judaism of the Second Temple Period: Qumran and Apocalypticism Author: David Flusser Reviewer: B. Barry Levy Title: Abraham's Journey: Reflections on the Life of the Founding Patriarch Author: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

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