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'Jews and Power' by Ruth R. Wisse: The Harvard professor's book has a clear message: For Jews, morality without strength leads to disaster, and today that strength is in Israel
Los Angeles Times, August 26, 2007

What's Good for the Jews: A scholar wrestles with Jewish power and powerlessness
Washington Post, August 19, 2007

The Wandering Jew
Jerusalem Post. July 26, 2007

Chagall's Dilemma-Yiddish Culture versus his desire to be a modern artist-was never resolved
Greater Milwaukee News, March 30, 2007

Chagall, between his roots and his art
The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 2007

The Moses Between Egypt and Mendelssohn
The Forward, March 24, 2006

A Biography of the emblematic Jewish Artist of the 2oth Century
Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2007

A Fiddler on the Roof of Modernism
The New York Sun, March 14, 2007

The Rebbetzin Steps Out
The Jewish Week, March 9, 2007

The Reluctant Jew
Chicago Sun Times, March 4, 2007

A new book Probes Chagall's Conflicts and Contradictions
The Forward, March 2, 2007

Jewish and Bookish
Newsweek Magazine, January 15, 2007

One Book One Congregation offers reading groups in Chicago Area
JUF News, January 11, 2007

Mother of Exiles
The New York Times Book Review, December 31, 2006

Spreading the Word about Jewish Literature, Culture, and Ideas
Jewish Woman Magazine, Winter Issue 2006

A philosophical puzzle: who was this guy Spinoza?
The New York Observer, December 18, 2006

The Book Shelf
The Jewish Press, December 6, 2006

Nextbook Enters the Congregation
JT News, November 24, 2006

David Mamet has one question for the wicked son
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, November 10, 2006

Maybe I am Chopped Liver
New York Times Book Review, November 5, 2006

Sympathy for the wicked child
New Jersey Jewish News, November 9, 2006

The sad saga of the Wicked Son
The Atlanta Jewish Times, November 7, 2006

Local synagogues join national effort to get congregants on the same page
New Jersey Jewish News, November 2006

Emma Lazarus: The life of the woman who wrote Liberty's poem
The Seattle Times, October 27, 2006

Emma Lazarus, Poet of the Huddled Masses
NPR All Things Considered, October 21, 2006

For many, book clubs offer easy, stimulating path to Jewish Identity
JTA, October 12, 2006

America's First Cultural Jew
The Forward, September 26, 2006

Life of Miss Liberty's Muse
The Washington Times, September 24, 2006

A look at the talented Emma Lazarus
Harper's Magazine, September 17, 2006

Opening the Book on Jewish Literature
Worcester Telegram, September 3, 2006

Spinoza: Hero, Infidel, Celebrity
The Forward, June 30, 2006

The Spinoza Conundrum
The Jewish Week, June 21, 2006

The Mysterious Spinoza
The New York Sun, May 31, 2006

The Spin on Spinoza—Rebel or Traitor?
Jewish Journal of LA, May 26, 2006

Everybody Loves Spinoza
Salon.com, May 17, 2006

Betraying Spinoza
Washington Post, May 12, 2006

People of the Book
Beliefnet, February 15, 2006

The pride of the ghetto
Newsday, February 5, 2006

Barney Ross
Only a Game, January 26, 2006

Architect of Judaism
New York Times Book Review, January 22, 2006

Jewschool's Best of 2005
Jewschool, December 27, 2005

The People of the Book Come to Light
The New York Sun, October 10, 2005

Heavy Hitters
Time Out Chicago, September 15, 2005

War and Rememberance
New Jersey Jewish News, June 2, 2005

A Jewish Soldier's View of Iraq
NPR, May 30, 2005

Initiative helps U.S. libraries promote discussion of Jewish books
JTA, January 18, 2005

Opening the Book on Jewish Lit
Chicago Sun-Times, January 12, 2005

Keeping Track of Jewish Pop Culture?
Hartford Courant, December 6, 2004

"People of the Nextbook,"
The Blueprint, October 2004

Nextbook.org Wins Web Award, September 2004

Jewish Women Poets Explore the 'Dark Side'
Chicago Jewish Community Online, August 30, 2004

Tales Leap Off Page in Chat With Writer
Chicago Tribune, April 15, 2004

Jewish Program Aims to Spotlight 'People of the Book'
Religion News Service, December 17, 2003

Writing a New Chapter in a Tale of Jewish Discovery
Forward, December 5, 2003

City Beat: One for the books
Daily News, November 17, 2003

FORWARD 50
Forward, November 15, 2003

Nextbook: insights into the Jewish soul through literature
Seattle Times, November 11, 2003

Chabon kicks off Nextbook initiative
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 7, 2003

National project perpetuates Jewish culture, ideas
Daily Herald, October 14, 2003

People of the Nextbook
Chicago Jewish News, October 10, 2003

Nextbook to Promote Jewish Literature and Culture
JUF News, October 3, 2003

Judaism Through Books, Not by the Book
New York Times, August 9, 2003

Using libraries and Web, group hopes to shape generation of Jews
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, July 23, 2003

The Jewsweek Sizzlin' 60
Jewsweek, July 17, 2003

People of the Nextbook
Boston Globe, June 22, 2003

Virtual Lit
New York Jewish Week, June 18, 2003

What to Read Next
New York Sun, June 9, 2003

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