If You Will It
If the idea of Israel as imagined by American Jews sometimes seems like a fantasy that could not ever exist in reality, there is a reason for it. In many way, this country was founded as an impossible dream.
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When you have come into the land
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Book Discussion: The Great House
by Peter Shapiro
Read the review of this book in Reform Judaism magazine
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A reader of Nicole Krauss's novel "Great House" in my judgment will either like it or dislike it but there will be no middle ground.
