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All the Seas Were Ink, describing how the daily routine of Talmud study carried her through challenging years in her own life—and her book inspired many less-traditional people who had previously assumed that Talmud study wasn’t for them.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Perkins spent the twelve years of Roosevelt’s presidency doing more than anyone other than FDR himself to make the New Deal a reality. Everything on her list became law, most notably social security, changing the basic relation of Americans to their government. She also desegregated the Labor Department cafeteria, tried (and failed) to bring large
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The Ellis Island legend is simply the final step in this multigenerational process of denying, hiding, and burying the reality that American Jews feared most—namely, the possibility that they were not welcome
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Know Where You Are
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
Dorothy Dinnerstein’s groundbreaking book The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise,
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
Unlike Shimen, Heidi aspires to base her beliefs solely on evidence and to choose her commitments based on these justified beliefs. She specifically aspires for her most deeply held beliefs to transcend the particular culture in which she lives.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
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Charlotte Gilman • Herland
Alfred Kinsey’s study on human sexuality.