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Essay A Job for a Sofer Lenore Weiss’s most recent collection,Two Places, is now available. She is blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe series.With a ready… Lenore Weiss August 4, 2014
Essay Jews and Slavery: Isaac Cardozo and Lydia Weston Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most eminent Jews in Georgia in the nineteenth century, and Clara Solomon, a Jewish girl… Sabra Waldfogel August 1, 2014
Essay Internal Dialogue: Portraits of Intermarriage Posted by Nat BernsteinThe findings of the Pew Research Center survey of United States Jews published last fall indicated a rise in Jewish intermarriage that… Nat Bernstein July 31, 2014
Essay Jews and Slavery: Clara Solomon and Lucy Lewis Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most eminent Jews in Georgia in the nineteenth century. She has recently published Slave and… Sabra Waldfogel July 30, 2014
Essay 7 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know about Sigmund Freud Posted by Mark SteinerFreud is the father of modern psychology. His pioneering work in psychoanalysis and the study of unconscious desires shaped the field for… Mark Steiner July 24, 2014
Essay A Book and Its Translators Arthur Allen is a journalist and non-fiction writer based in Washington DC. A former foreign correspondent, he writes about medicine, science and other… Arthur Allen July 23, 2014
