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    Social Justice

    Cover of Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook
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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
    Cover of Waging Justice: A Doctor's Journey to Speak Truth and Be Bold
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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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    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
    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
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    You Need a School­house: Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, Julius Rosen­wald, and the Build­ing of Schools for the Seg­re­gat­ed South
    Stephanie Deutsch
    Cover of Jewish Ethics & Social Justice: A Guide for the 21st Century
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    Jew­ish Ethics & Social Jus­tice: A Guide for the 21st Century
    Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
    Essay

    Do We Pri­or­i­tize the Vul­ner­a­ble in Justice?

    Ear­li­er this week, Rab­bi Shmu­ly Yan­klowitz wrote about prayer and activism. This week, the Ama­zon Kin­dle ver­sion of his book Jew­ish Ethics & Social…
    Shmu­ly Yanklowitz
    March 21, 2012
    Essay

    Is Prayer for Activists?

    Rab­bi Shmu­ly Yan­klowitz is the founder and pres­i­dent of Uri L’Tzedek. He is the author of Jew­ish Ethics & Social Jus­tice: A Guide for the 21st…
    Shmu­ly Yanklowitz
    March 19, 2012
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    Spir­i­tu­al Activism: A Jew­ish Guide to Lead­er­ship and Repair­ing the World
    Rabbi Avraham Weiss
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    The Jew­ish Approach to Repair­ing the World (Tikkun Olam): A Brief Intro­duc­tion for Christians
    Elliot N. Dorff
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    As Good As Any­body: Mar­tin Luther King Jr. and Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel’s Amaz­ing March Toward Freedom
    Richard Michel­son
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