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Social Justice

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Chil­dren’s
The Brave Princess and Me
Kathy Kac­er
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Root­ed Cos­mopoli­tans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twen­ti­eth Century
James Loef­fler Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
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Jocie: South­ern Jew­ish Amer­i­can Princess, Civ­il Rights Activist
Joce­lyn Dan Wurzburg
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Chil­dren’s
Back­field Boys: A Foot­ball Mys­tery in Black and White
John Feinstein
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Lil­lian Wald: Amer­i­ca’s Great Social and Health­care Reformer
Paul M. Kaplan
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Julius Rosen­wald: Repair­ing the World (Jew­ish Lives)
Hasia R. Diner
Essay

Al Chet, or The Long Confession

Man­ny Waks
September 27, 2017
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Con­nect­ing with the Enemy
Sheila H. Katz
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Gertrude Weil: Jew­ish Pro­gres­sive in the New South
Leonard Rogoff
Essay

How Does the ​“Jus­tice Sys­tem” Work for You?

Julia Dahl is the author of the Rebekah Roberts nov­els, the lat­est of which, Con­vic­tion, comes out this week. Julia is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week…
Julia Dahl
March 27, 2017
Essay

What My Nazi Great-Grand­fa­ther Taught Me About the Oblig­a­tion to Act

Ursu­la Werner
March 6, 2017
Essay

How Jew­ish Was Ernes­tine Rose?

Bon­nie S. Anderson
January 25, 2017
Essay

Agi­tate! Agi­tate! Ernes­tine Rose and the Age of Trump

Bon­nie S. Anderson
January 23, 2017
Essay

My Sioux-kot, Part III

Emi­ly Bowen Cohen’s mini-com­ic An Amer­i­can Indi­an Guide to the Day of Atone­ment recounts her reunion with her long-lost Native Amer­i­can fam­i­ly and her reflec­tion on…
Emi­ly Bowen Cohen
December 22, 2016
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Chang­ing the World from the Inside Out: A Jew­ish Approach to Per­son­al and Social Change
David Jaffe
Essay

My Sioux-kot, Part II

Ear­li­er this week, Emi­ly Bowen Cohen intro­duced the con­flict she felt between her Amer­i­can Indi­an and Jew­ish iden­ti­ties dur­ing the protests at Stand­ing Rock, North…
Emi­ly Bowen Cohen
December 21, 2016
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