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Cover of Standing With Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State
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Stand­ing With Israel: Why Chris­tians Sup­port the Jew­ish State
David Brog
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The Left Hand of God: Tak­ing Back Our Coun­try From the Reli­gious Right
Michael Lerner
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Slid­ing to the Right: The Con­test for the Future of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Orthodoxy
Samuel C. Heilman
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The Men’s Sec­tion: Ortho­dox Jew­ish Men in an Egal­i­tar­i­an World
Elana Sztok­man
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The Fight for Jerusalem: Rad­i­cal Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City
Dore Gold
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The Resur­gence of Anti-Semi­tism: Jews, Israel and Lib­er­al Opinion
Bernard Harrison
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Anti-Semi­tism Today: How It Is The Same, How It Is Dif­fer­ent, and How To Fight It
Kenneth S. Stern
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Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dis­likes America
Andrei S. Markovits
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State­craft: And How to Restore Amer­i­ca’s Stand­ing in the World
Den­nis Ross
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The Hebrew Repub­lic: How Sec­u­lar Democ­ra­cy and Glob­al Enter­prise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last
Bernard Avishai
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Anti­semet­ic Myths: A His­tor­i­cal and Con­tem­po­rary Anthology
Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer, eds.
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Not Your Father’s Anti­semitism: Hatred of the Jews in the 21st Century
Michael Berenbaum, ed.
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Songs of Hope and Failure

On Mon­day, Chris Mori­ar­ty wrote about why she wrote The Inquisi­tor’s Appren­tice. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.So the…
Chris Mori­ar­ty
November 30, 2011
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Get­ting Our Groove Back: How to Ener­gize Amer­i­can Jewry
Scott A. Shay
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Sav­ing Israel: How the Jew­ish Peo­ple Can Win a War That May Nev­er End
Daniel Gordis
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A Sukkah Occu­pies Wall Street

Last week, Rab­bi Jill Jacobs wrote about Sukkot and social jus­tice and asked dis­cussed the impor­tance of place. Her most recent book, Where Jus­tice…
Jill Jacobs
October 18, 2011
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