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Interview

Inter­view: Jonathan Weisman

Michael N. Dobkowski
March 14, 2018
Essay

30 Days 30 Authors: Bruce Henderson

Bruce Hen­der­son
November 18, 2017
Essay

The Sec­ond Amend­ment, Yom Kip­pur, and the Las Vegas Massacre

Car­ol Zoref
October 10, 2017
Essay

How Wives Pay for Their Hus­bands’ Crimes

Randy Susan Meyers
April 27, 2017
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On Tyran­ny: Twen­ty Lessons from the Twen­ti­eth Century
Tim­o­thy Snyder
Essay

Want to Under­stand Israel? Start Reading…

Inter­nal Dia­logue is a Jew­ish Book Coun­cil blog series on lit­er­ary trends, ideas, and dis­cus­sions of inter­est to Jew­ish read­ers and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­ers,…
Nat Bern­stein
March 1, 2017
Essay

Agi­tate! Agi­tate! Ernes­tine Rose and the Age of Trump

Bon­nie S. Anderson
January 23, 2017
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All the Sin­gle Ladies
Rebecca Traister
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Non­fic­tion
The Land Is Full
Alon Tal
Essay

The End Game

Rab­bi Sara Bran­des is the author of Mag­i­cal World: Sto­ries, Reflec­tions, Poems. Invit­ed to weigh in on recent devel­op­ments at the Kotel, the West­ern Wall of Jerusalem’s…
Sara Bran­des
March 18, 2016
Essay

Hijack­ing the Lan­guage of Holiness

Alden Solovy is the author of Jew­ish Prayers of Hope and Heal­ing , a book of orig­i­nal litur­gy in Hebrew and Eng­lish. In April 2015 he was bru­tal­ly attacked…
Alden Solovy
March 17, 2016
Essay

Kol Isha — A Voice for Every Woman

Rab­bi Sara Bran­des is the author of Mag­i­cal World: Sto­ries, Reflec­tions, Poems. Invit­ed to weigh in on recent devel­op­ments at the Kotel, the West­ern Wall of Jerusalem’s…
Sara Bran­des
March 16, 2016
Essay

Adding Walls to the Wall

Rab­bi Sara Bran­des is the author of Mag­i­cal World: Sto­ries, Reflec­tions, Poems. Invit­ed to weigh in on recent devel­op­ments at the Kotel, the West­ern Wall of Jerusalem’s…
Sara Bran­des
March 14, 2016
Interview

Inter­view: Michael Oren

by Yos­si Klein HaleviMichael Oren is the author of three New York Times best­sellers, includ­ing his lat­est book, Ally: My Jour­ney Across the Amer­i­ca-Israeli Divide, an…
Yos­si Klein Halevi
October 23, 2015
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Euro­pean Mus­lim Anti­semitism: Why Young Urban Males Say They Don’t Like Jews
Günther Jikeli
Essay

Israel Then and Now: Tel Aviv, Secu­ri­ty, and the Kibbutz

Jes­samyn Hope
August 5, 2015
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