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life, work and legacy of a constitutional
philosopher who drew from Isaiah and
Jefferson to write still-resonant opinions
on privacy, free speech and excesses of
corporate and federal power.
■ Rabbi Marvin Hier is a Jewish-
American success story: The Orthodox
rabbi from New York City’s Lower
East Side is the founder of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of

essay by Rabbi Herbert A. Yoskowitz of
Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
Hills. “When the Kaddish is said in a
Kaddish Minyan,” Yoskowitz writes,
“we praise God, and we join with God
in praying for a better world. Doing that
gives us a greater sense of purpose and
serenity.” He calls Kaddish “the stron-
gest spiritual tool” there is to sustain
Jews during their period of mourning.
■ Novelist Joseph Skibell reads some
of the Talmud’s tales with the insight of
a storyteller and retells the tales in Six
Memos from the Last Millenium: A
Novelist Reads the Talmud (University
of Texas Press). Sometimes wild, rude,
even bawdy, Skibell’s memos focus
on the lives of the legendary rabbis
depicted in the Talmud with the goal of
uncovering the wisdom they can still
impart to our modern age and pursuing
a livable transcendence.
■ In Talks on the Parsha (Maggid
Books) by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and
Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly
Reading of the Jewish Bible (Maggid
Books) by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, two
of the world’s leading rabbis use the
weekly Torah portions as a starting
point to share deep insights, both
illuminating and accessible. Steinsaltz
asks, and answers, about the purpose
of life and the meaning of progress,
while Sacks mines the same portions
for insights into the nature of power,

Tolerance, earned two Academy Awards
as the founder of Moriah Films and is
the driving force behind a new state-of-
the-art museum in Jerusalem. In Meant
To Be: A Memoir (Toby), Rabbie Hier
recounts with classic Jewish humor the
birth of the world’s most influential
human-rights organizations, the hunt
for “Angel of Death” Joseph Mengele, his
friendship with Jordan’s King Hussein,
Frank Sinatra and Jeffrey Katzenberg
and meeting every president since
Jimmy Carter.
■ A professor at Bard College, author
Ian Buruma pieces together the story of
his own grandparents in Their Promised
Land: My Grandparents in Love and
War (Penguin Press). Born into pros-
perous German Jewish emigre families
in England, Winifred and Bernard
Schlesinger (Buruma’s grandparents and
film director John Schlesinger’s parents)
were separated for long periods of time
while England was at war with Nazi
Germany. Drawing from the trove of
love letters left behind, Buruma explores
questions of class, culture and identity as
the couple stoically and discreetly faced
anti-Semitism in the country they loved.

authority and leadership. Grounded
in Jewish history, belief and practice,
both share human lessons relevant to
all of humanity.
■ In Till We Have Built Jerusalem:
Architects of a New City (Farrar
Straus Giroux), Adina Hoffman, an
American-born Jerusalemite, writes
of the city’s architecture and develop-
ment by looking at the work of three
very different architects who designed
and built the modern city in the first
half of the 20th century. Through her
telling photos of these fascinating
lives, she paints a rich and insightful
portrait of Jerusalem itself. Historic
photos helpfully illustrate many of
the buildings, styles and features she
discusses.
■ Why Be Jewish? A Testament
(Twelve) conveys author Edgar
Bronfman’s awe, respect and deep love
for his faith and heritage. Completed
just weeks before his death in
December 2013, the book honestly
and poignantly shares Bronfman’s own
longtime “break” with Judaism and
how he re-learned, with a “deep and
absorbing love,” to live with Judaism as
more than a cultural identity.

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Sandee Brawarsky, Don Cohen, Keri Guten
Cohen, Jackie Headapohl, Jeffrey Hermann,
Lynne Konstantin, David Sachs and Robert Sklar
contributed to this story.

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