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Social Justice

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Chil­dren’s
Joey and the Giant Box
Deb­o­rah Lakritz
Essay

What Is Tzedakah?

Ear­li­er this week, Talia Carn­er wrote about grow­ing up as a a sev­enth-gen­er­a­tion sabra among the Sec­ond Gen­er­a­tion of Holo­caust sur­vivors in Israel, there­by…
Talia Carn­er
June 3, 2015
Essay

Inter­nal Dia­logue: What’s With All the Social Jus­tice Seders?

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinI’m afraid to admit it, but I have lit­tle patience for Passover. Almost none. And the seder least of all.Don’t get me wrong: I observe the…
Nat Bern­stein
April 9, 2015
Essay

The Knish as an Instru­ment of Social Justice

Lau­ra Sil­ver is the author of the book Knish: In Search of the Jew­ish Soul Food and an award-win­ning jour­nal­ist whose writ­ing on food and cul­ture has appeared in The New…
Lau­ra Silver
January 19, 2015
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Non­fic­tion
The Soul of Jew­ish Social Justice
Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
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Where Jus­tice Dwells: A Hands-On Guide to Doing Social Jus­tice in Your Jew­ish Community
Jill Jacobs
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Dri­ving Social Change: How to Solve the World’s Tough­est Problems
Paul C. Light
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Make the Impos­si­ble Pos­si­ble: One Man’s Cru­sade to Inspire Oth­ers to Dream Big­ger and Achieve the Extraordinary
Bill Strickland with Vince Rause
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Chil­dren’s
Tikkun Olam Ted
Vivian Newman; Steve Mack, illus.
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Sav­ing Free Speech…from Itself
Thane Rosen­baum
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Toward a Renewed Eth­ic of Jew­ish Philanthropy
Yossi Prager, ed.; Robert Hirt, series ed.
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The Price of Truth: A True Sto­ry of Child Sex­u­al Abuse in the Ortho­dox Jew­ish World — and One Girl’s Courage to Sur­vive and Heal
Genendy Rad­off
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Sarah Schenir­er and the Bais Yaakov Movement
Naomi Seidman
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Fic­tion
Don­na Has Left The Building
Susan Jane Gilman
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Fic­tion
What Makes Us
Rafi Mittlefehldt
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Good Trou­ble: Lessons from the Civ­il Rights Playbook
Christo­pher Noxon
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