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Politics

Essay

What Is Fair Taxation?

Yes­ter­day Rab­bi Shmu­ly Yan­klowitz wrote about Hur­ri­cane Sandy, FEMA, and the Need for Big Gov­ern­ment. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil…
Shmu­ly Yanklowitz
December 11, 2012
Essay

Hur­ri­cane Sandy, FEMA, and the Need for Big Government

Rab­bi Shmu­ly Yan­klowitz is the Founder and Pres­i­dent of Uri L’Tzedek, the Senior Rab­bi at Kehi­lath Israel, and is the author of Jew­ish Ethics & Social Jus­tice:…
Shmu­ly Yanklowitz
December 10, 2012
Interview

JBW talks with Ambas­sador Stu­art Eizenstat

JBC review­er Jeff Bogursky talks with the for­mer Ambas­sador to the EU about Israel, Jew­ish con­ti­nu­ity, and the role being Jew­ish has played in his career as…
Jeff Bogursky
November 5, 2012
Essay

Super Tues­day

Haim Watz­man is a Jerusalem-based writer, jour­nal­ist, and trans­la­tor. He is the author of Com­pa­ny C: An American’s Life as a Cit­i­zen-Sol­dier in Israel and…
Haim Watz­man
November 5, 2012
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The Case for Democ­ra­cy: The Pow­er of Free­dom to Over­come Tyran­ny and Terror
Natan Sharansky; Ron Dermer
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Amer­i­can Pres­i­dents, Reli­gion and Israel
Paul Charles Merkley
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Arrows in the Dark: David Ben-Guri­on, the Yishuv Lead­er­ship, and Res­cue Attempts Dur­ing the Holocaust
Tuvia Friling; Ora Cummings, trans
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How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
Danny Goldberg
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Sharon: The Life of a Leader
Gilad Sharon; Mitch Ginsburg, trans.
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The Can­di­date: What It Takes To Win — And Hold — The White House
Samuel Popkin
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The Last Great Sen­ate: Courage and States­man­ship in Times of Crisis
Ira Shapiro
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Sub­ver­sives: The FBI’s War on Stu­dent Rad­i­cals and Rea­gan’s Rise to Power
Seth Rosenfeld
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Jour­nal of the Plague Year
Lloyd Constantine
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Israel: The Will to Prevail
Danny Danon
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Ein­stein’s Jew­ish Sci­ence: Physics at the Inter­sec­tion of Pol­i­tics and Religion
Steven Gim­bel
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The State of the Mid­dle East: An Atlas of Con­flict and Resolution
Dan Smith
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