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Essay Ask Big Questions: When Do You Say No? The Jewish Book Council is delighted to publish a continuing blog series in partnership with Ask Big Questions, an initiative out of Hillel International… Shulem Deen April 16, 2015
Nonfiction Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890 – 1940 Melissa R. Klapper
Nonfiction A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon, the Holocaust, and the Lives of André and Magda Trocmé Richard P. Unsworth; Peter I. Rose, fwd.
Nonfiction Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power Seth Rosenfeld
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
Nonfiction Spiritual Activism: A Jewish Guide to Leadership and Repairing the World Rabbi Avraham Weiss
Nonfiction A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to be a Respectable Jewish Mom) By Her Bastard Son Clancy Sigal
Nonfiction Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes: How Grassroots Activism Led to the Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews Howard M. Lenhoff
