Shulem Deen

Ten books you should be sneaking into synagogue on Yom Kippur

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 26, 2017
(RNS) — This rabbi knows that there are many ways to access God. Some Jews do it through the prayers of the liturgy. But, others get in touch with the sacred, and themselves, through the written word – a literary ladder to God, if you will.

In the grips of Jewish fundamentalism: New memoir sheds light on Hasidic community

By Jay Michaelson — March 17, 2015
(RNS) Jewish fundamentalists are often depicted as cuddly, harmless and quaint. But as Shulem Deen describes, in passage after passage, this is myth, not reality.
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