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    Cover of What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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    What Jus­tice Demands: Amer­i­ca and the Israeli-Pales­tin­ian Conflict
    Elan Journo
    Interview

    Inter­view: Jonathan Weisman

    Michael N. Dobkowski
    March 14, 2018
    Essay

    30 Days 30 Authors: Bruce Henderson

    Bruce Hen­der­son
    November 18, 2017
    Essay

    The Sec­ond Amend­ment, Yom Kip­pur, and the Las Vegas Massacre

    Car­ol Zoref
    October 10, 2017
    Essay

    How Wives Pay for Their Hus­bands’ Crimes

    Randy Susan Meyers
    April 27, 2017
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    On Tyran­ny: Twen­ty Lessons from the Twen­ti­eth Century
    Tim­o­thy Snyder
    Essay

    Want to Under­stand Israel? Start Reading…

    Inter­nal Dia­logue is a Jew­ish Book Coun­cil blog series on lit­er­ary trends, ideas, and dis­cus­sions of inter­est to Jew­ish read­ers and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­ers,…
    Nat Bern­stein
    March 1, 2017
    Essay

    Agi­tate! Agi­tate! Ernes­tine Rose and the Age of Trump

    Bon­nie S. Anderson
    January 23, 2017
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    All the Sin­gle Ladies
    Rebecca Traister
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    The Land Is Full
    Alon Tal
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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
    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
    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
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    Euro­pean Mus­lim Anti­semitism: Why Young Urban Males Say They Don’t Like Jews
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