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Audun Dahl, "Between Fixed and Fickle: Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing" (Harvard UP, 2026) contributed by Lukas · 2 days ago
Anthony Julius, "Abraham: The First Jew" (Yale UP, 2025) contributed by Lukas · 6 days ago
Jay Belsky, "Nature of Nurture: Rethinking Why and How Childhood Adversity Shapes Development" (Harvard UP, 2026) contributed by Lukas · Jul 13
Antizionism as a Distinct Anti-Jewish Bigotry with Adam Louis-Klein contributed by Lukas · Jun 24
Matti Friedman, "Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe" (Spiegel & Grau, 2026) contributed by Lukas · Jun 9
Stuart Katz, "Still Here: A Story of Living with Suicidal Ideation" (Independent, 2026) contributed by Lukas · May 16
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us" (Liveright Publishing, 2026) contributed by Lukas · May 12
Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs To Know by David Harris contributed by Lukas · May 8
Laughter and Leadership: A Conversation with Tikva Blaukopf Schein, Ph.D. contributed by Lukas · Apr 18
Elias V. Messinas, "Synagogues of Greece: A Study of Synagogues in Macedonia and Thrace" (Bloch Publishing, 2011) contributed by Lukas · Apr 13
Steven Pinker, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life" (Scribner, 2025) contributed by Lukas · Mar 23
Robert J. Coplan, "The Joy of Solitude: How to Reconnect with Yourself in an Overconnected World" (Simon and Schuster, 2025) contributed by Lukas · Mar 18
Michael Kimmel, "Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2026) contributed by Lukas · Mar 14
Oren Harman, "Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History" (Basic Books, 2025) contributed by Lukas · Feb 8
Marc Berman, "Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being" (Simon and Schuster, 2025) contributed by Lukas · Jan 8
Susan Weingarten, "Ancient Jewish Food in its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What’s Cooking in the Talmuds?" (Taylor & Francis, 2025 contributed by Lukas · Dec 13, 2025
William Ury, "Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict" (Harper Business, 2024) contributed by Lukas · Nov 15, 2025
Michal Govrin et. al, "But There Was Love―Shaping the Memory of the Shoah" (de Gruyter, 2025) contributed by Lukas · Nov 12, 2025
Maya Arad, "The Hebrew Teacher" (New Vessel Press, 2024) contributed by Lukas · Nov 3, 2025
Shaul Kelner, "A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized To Free Soviet Jews" (NYU Press, 2025) contributed by Lukas · Nov 2, 2025
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