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Concerned Jews of America, Here Are Answers to Your Pledge

Emmanuel Navon September 2, 2018

The Art of Religion

Julie Gruenbaum Fax March 25, 2004

How did Israelite religion develop and evolve in its earliest years? What influences led to the centralization of power during the First Temple period? And how did changing perceptions of God fit into all of this?

Q & A With Steve Oney

David Finnigan February 5, 2004

Los Angeles writer Steve Oney\’s book, \”And the Dead Shall Rise\” (Pantheon Books, 2003), details two infamous, unsolved crimes: the 1913 murder of non-Jewish preteen Mary Phagan in an Atlanta factory and the arrest, trial, conviction, death sentence commutation and 1915 abduction and lynching by a 25-man mob of Leo Frank, the factory\’s Jewish, 29-year-old Northern-born supervisor. In 1995, on the 80th yahrtzeit of Frank\’s death, Temple Kol Emeth in Marietta, Ga., helped place a plaque on the building built on the spot where the tree used to lynch him grew. Oney, a 49-year-old former Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter, whose wife is Jewish, spent 17 years researching the 742-page book.