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    Till We Have Built Jerusalem
    Adi­na Hoffman
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    Zion­ism: The Birth and Trans­for­ma­tion of an Ideal
    Mil­ton Viorst
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    Leah Kamin­sky
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    Noa Baum
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    Miri­am Libicki
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    To Be Israeli
    Yair Lapid
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    Our Sep­a­rate Ways
    Dana H. Allin and Steven N. Simon
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    Trou­ble in the Tribe: The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Con­flict Over Israel
    Dov Wax­man
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    Bar­bara Kreiger
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    The Best Books about Jerusalem from Mem­oir, Fic­tion, and the Bible

    Ear­li­er this week, Chanan Tigay shared his 5 favorite books to re-read. With the release of The Lost Book of Moses: The Search for the World’s Old­est Bible, Chanan is…
    Chanan Tigay
    April 14, 2016
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    It Isn’t Often You Come Across an Eighth-Gen­er­a­tion Israeli Jew

    Sar­it Yishai-Levi is the author of four non-fic­tion books and the best­selling nov­el The Beau­ty Queen of Jerusalem. Sar­it is blog­ging here all week as part of the…
    Sar­it Yishai-Levi
    April 4, 2016
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    Orches­tra of Exiles
    Josh Aronson and Denise George
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    The Beau­ty Queen of Jerusalem
    Sarit Yishai-Levi; Anthony Berris, trans.
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    Vladimir Jabotin­sky’s Sto­ry of My Life
    Vladimir Jabotinsky; Brain Horowitz and Leonid Katsis, eds.
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    The Para­dox of Liberation
    Michael Walzer
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    The End Game

    Rab­bi Sara Bran­des is the author of Mag­i­cal World: Sto­ries, Reflec­tions, Poems. Invit­ed to weigh in on recent devel­op­ments at the Kotel, the West­ern Wall of Jerusalem’s…
    Sara Bran­des
    March 18, 2016
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