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Future Tense: Jews, Judaism and Israel in the Twen­ty-First Century
Jonathan Sacks
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An Arro­gant Revolution

Lucette Lagna­do​’s most recent book, The Arro­gant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brook­lyn, is now avail­able. Lucette won the 2008 Sami…
Lucette Lagna­do
September 21, 2011
Essay

Mourn­ing My Arab Spring

Lucette Lagna­do​’s most recent book, The Arro­gant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brook­lyn, is now avail­able. Lucette won the 2008 Sami Rohr…
Lucette Lagna­do
September 19, 2011
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Why Are Jews Liberals?
Norman Podhoretz
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Amer­i­can Jew­ry’s Com­fort Lev­el: Present and Future
Manfred Gerstenfeld and Steven Bayme, eds.
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Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assas­si­na­tion of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas
Paul McGeough
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Mut­ing Israeli Democ­ra­cy: How Media and Cul­tur­al Pol­i­cy Under­mine Free Expression
Amit M. Schejter
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Trans­form­ing Amer­i­ca’s Israel Lob­by: The Lim­its of its Pow­er and the Poten­tial for Change
Dan Fleshler
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Nation­al Minor­i­ty, Region­al Major­i­ty: Pales­tin­ian Arabs Ver­sus Jews in Israel
Yitzhak Reiter
Essay

Mak­ing Kosher Food Is an All-Night Affair

Ear­li­er this week, Sue Fishkoff wrote about watch­ing a goat slaugh­tered and peo­ple who only keep kosher on hol­i­days. She is the author…
Sue Fishkoff
November 5, 2010
Essay

Get­ting Close to Your Food is Hard­er When Meat is Involved

On Mon­day, Sue Fishkoff wrote about peo­ple who only keep kosher on hol­i­days. She is the author of Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food…
Sue Fishkoff
November 3, 2010
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Pres­i­dents and Jews

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times post­ed an arti­cle yes­ter­day on an upcom­ing title from Indi­ana Uni­ver­si­ty Press called Refugees and…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
May 1, 2009
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