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Essay Lear’s Warning Paul Goldberg first heard a Moscow version of the myth about Jews using blood for religious rituals when he was ten, in 1969. By the time he emigrated to the US in… Paul Goldberg February 15, 2016
Essay An Author’s First Book Is Always Their Second Attempt Earlier this week, Daniel Oppenheimer shared his thoroughly secular affiliation with Joseph and the personal inner turmoil reflected in his book Exit Right: The… Daniel Oppenheimer February 12, 2016
Essay My Own Master of My Own Dreams Earlier this week, Daniel Oppenheimer shared the personal inner turmoil reflected in his book Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American… Daniel Oppenheimer February 10, 2016
Essay The Submerged “I” Daniel Oppenheimer is the author of Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century. He will be blogging here all week as part of the Visiting… Daniel Oppenheimer February 8, 2016
Essay When a Picture Speaks a Thousand Words Earlier this week, Helen Maryles Shankman questioned whether her fictional stories trivialize the Holocaust. She is guest blogging all week as a Visiting Scribe… Helen Maryles Shankman February 4, 2016
Essay Booklessness Earlier this week, Stolen Words author Rabbi Mark Glickman wrote about the Jewish community’s midcentury dispute over restituted libraries. He is guest blogging all… Mark Glickman February 3, 2016