
20th Century Jewish Lives
These Pulitzer winners – including two exploring cartooning – chronicle the Jewish experience throughout the 1900s.
Rabbi Michael Cohen teaches conflict resolution at Bennington College and is the author of Einstein’s Rabbi: A Tale of Science and the Soul. He is the Rabbi Emeritus of the Israel Congregation of Manchester, where he was the first permanent rabbi in the Congregation’s history. A longtime environmental activist, he co-founded the first recycling center in Ewing, N.J., in 1976 while in high school. He served as President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
Since 1996 he has divided his time between Vermont and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies Kibbutz Ketura campus where Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian and International students study together. He has served as a policy adviser for the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace at the Department of State and has written extensively on the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
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These Pulitzer winners – including two exploring cartooning – chronicle the Jewish experience throughout the 1900s.
The books in this series, comprised of Pulitzer-winning reporting and research, dig deep, revealing facts and stories that continue to be relevant years after they were brought to the surface.
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This series focuses on the theme of relationships between children and older adults.
A multi-session group is the ideal environment in which to relish these classic works of literature of a certain size and heft.
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Look past the stereotypes to examine the realities of minimum-wage existence, small-town economics, social divisions, and what does or doesn’t constitute the good life.
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