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Jeff Jacoby


Assimilation’s Retreat
Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman
Winter 5762 / 2002, no. 12

Deciphering American Morality
One Nation, Two Cultures by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Winter 5761 / 2001, no. 10

Prodigal Son
Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier
Autumn 5760 / 1999, no. 8

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