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A Shadow Over the World: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America's World War II

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Hebrew Roots, Jewish Routes by Jeremy Benstein

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There is a yawning chasm between the impressive, notable, even extraordinary nature of Hebrew and the lack of its appreciation—indeed, the veritable alienation from Hebrew that exists in the Jewish communities of the English-speaking ...more

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“Unbridled commerce isn’t generally pretty, but it’s always forward-thinking.”
― Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land

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“There’s no point in arguing with a fanatic man, as there would be no point in arguing with an intellectual, intellectual just being a nicer word than fanatic.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

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“It was as if she had once been almost smothered and then allowed to live only if she limited her vocabulary and breathed hardly at all.”
― Edith Pearlman, Honeydew: Stories

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“Sooner or later, the realization arrives: the child discovers the immaturity of the parent, and the parent the maturity of his child.”
― David Bezmozgis, The Betrayers

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