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Essay 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
Essay Hijacking the Language of Holiness Alden Solovy is the author of Jewish Prayers of Hope and Healing , a book of original liturgy in Hebrew and English. In April 2015 he was brutally attacked… Alden Solovy March 17, 2016
Essay Kol Isha — A Voice for Every Woman 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 16, 2016
Essay Adding Walls to the Wall 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 14, 2016
Nonfiction Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century Daniel Oppenheimer
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
Nonfiction Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict John B. Judis
Nonfiction Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit Lila Corwin Berman
Essay Can Peace Really Be Achieved Through a Shared Cuisine? Yael Raviv is the author of Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel. She will be blogging here all week as part of the Visiting Scribe… Yael Raviv November 2, 2015
Interview Interview: Michael Oren by Yossi Klein HaleviMichael Oren is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including his latest book, Ally: My Journey Across the America-Israeli Divide, an… Yossi Klein Halevi October 23, 2015
Excerpt The Morning of Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination: A Prologue Excerpted from Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron.Yitzhak Rabin woke up before seven the morning of November… Dan Ephron October 22, 2015
Nonfiction Drawing Fire: Investigating the Accusations of Apartheid in Israel Benjamin Pogrund
