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NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
By Simeon
Maslin
A rabbinic resister reflects on the era when abortion was a crime in America...Full
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 UNORTHODOX
JUSTICE
By Michael Bazyler
The untold story of how a team of feuding lawyers, a billionaire Jewish
activist, a U.S. senator seeking reelection, tenacious New York city and
state comptrollers, and a deft Brooklyn federal judge negotiated the Swiss
banks restitution settlement--which is changing the way aggrieved groups
around the world are fighting back...Full
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 SULTANS
OF SONG
By Paul Zollo
The songs of Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Oscar Hammerstein
II--all children or grandchildren of Jewish immigrants--profoundly altered
and elevated Broadway musicals and the American songbook. They transformed
musical theater from entertainment alone to an artful platform upon which
to raise social consciousness. Part II of three...Full
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MY OPINION:
Holding Israel to the Highest Moral Standard
By David J. Forman
Palestinian violence has been so devastating that all of Israel's retaliatory
actions seem justified. For certain, suicide bombings cannot go unanswered...Full
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Jewish Books
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The
Rise of David Levinsky
Over two million Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe entered
the United States from the 1880s through the first two decades
of the twentieth century. Through their numbers and initiative...Full
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The
Avengers: A Jewish War Story
Rich
Cohen, author of Tough Jews, first met Abba Kovner, Vitka
Kempner, and Ruzka Korczak when he was ten years old on a family
visit to Israel. He had no idea these elderly people...Full
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