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Social Justice

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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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Don­na Has Left The Building
Susan Jane Gilman
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What Makes Us
Rafi Mittlefehldt
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Good Trou­ble: Lessons from the Civ­il Rights Playbook
Christo­pher Noxon
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The Mon­tre­al Shtetl: Mak­ing Home After the Holocaust
Zel­da Abramson
John Lynch
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Build­ing a Sus­tain­able Home: Prac­ti­cal Green Design Choic­es for Your Health, Wealth and Soul
Melis­sa Rap­pa­port Schifman
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The Ques­tion is ​“Why?”: Stan­ford M. Adel­stein, a Jew­ish Life in South Dakota
Eric Steven Zimmer; Stanford M. Adelstein, preface
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Wag­ing Jus­tice: A Doc­tor’s Jour­ney to Speak Truth and Be Bold
Paul Zeitz
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Give To Live: Make A Char­i­ta­ble Gift You Nev­er Imgined
Arlene Cogen
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Amy Fish
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Lev­inas: On Rit­u­al and Justice

Ear­li­er this week, Rab­bi Shmu­ly Yan­klowitz wrote about tax­a­tion in Amer­i­ca and Hur­ri­cane Sandy, FEMA, and the Need for Big Gov­ern­ment and . He has…
Shmu­ly Yanklowitz
December 14, 2012
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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
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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
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