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Pick of the Week What to Do About the Solomons
Bethany Ball
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The Netanyahu Years
by Ben Caspit
Caspit, a senior columnist for Israel’s leading daily, has produced a masterful political biography of Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu.read more
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A Year of Memoirs
by Tova Mirvis
In the years of leaving my marriage and religious community, I felt more than anything the sense of the known world receding.Throughout those years, I wondered: did anyone around me feel this way too? The answer, for me, came in these memoirs.
On Why You Must Never Depend on One Coffee Shop
by Minna Zallman Proctor
There is a couple in the coffee shop where I am working today who are talking about running away together. I’m trying hard not to eavesdrop...
