Essay Collections

Jewish Priorities: Sixty Five Proposals for the Future of Our People

"An unprecedented, large–scale collection of timely and provocative essays from a wide range of Jewish thought leaders that aims to start a global conversation among Jews about their future as a people." - Post Hill Press

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

"Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes....

Halevi’s letters speak not only to his Palestinian neighbors, but to all his neighbors in the Middle East. In writing this book he is inviting his neighbors not only to read, but to respond with letters of their own. This is the first step in a project that will enable Palestinians and Israelis, Arabs and Jews to hear each others stories." - From letterstomyneighbor.com

Young Zionist Voices

"In the wake of 10/7 and the tidal wave of antisemitism that followed, a new generation of young Jewish leaders took matters into their own hands.​

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Young Zionist Voices brings them together for the first time: 31 campus activists, young professionals, thought leaders and rabbis from the United States, Israel, and around the world—all in one volume.

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Together they have a message to share: That the next generation of the Jewish people will be led by passionate, smart people committed to a strong, proud, and prosperous Jewish future."

- from jewishpriorities.com

"The Jewish Problem" and "An Epistle to the Hebrews"

"In The Jewish Problem and An Epistle to the Hebrews, [published in 1883,] the poet and activist Emma Lazarus brings her brilliance to one of the most pressing issues of her time: violence against Jews in the Russian Empire. In a series of prescient essays that later led her to be called "The Mother of Zionism"-written while she was working on "The New Colossus"-Lazarus laid out her view on the need for a Jewish home in its historical land, as well as why American Jewry had the responsibility to ensure its people across the world had safe refuge from endless waves of antisemitism."

- from TheWhisperingShelf.com, edits by ClarkU Hillel in brackets