Bibliography

BOOKS & ARTICLES
Whether you prefer to read online or in print, there’s nothing like curling up with an insightful book or article to get the inspiration flowing.

Here are a few of our favorite reads, which offer a comprehensive look into the issues that inspire service work, and the Jewish perspective on repairing the world. We hope and intend to update this list periodically. Read something amazing lately? Be in touch and let us know about it!

Brush up on…
54 Ways you Can Help the Homeless, Charles A. Kroloff (Homelessness / Poverty)
Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It, Sasha Abramsky (Food / Hunger)
Building an Ark: 101 Solutions to Animal Suffering, Ethan Smith and Guy Dauncey
Child Labor: An American History, Hugh Hindman (Immigration / Labor)
Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and Activism, Noel Anderson (Education)
Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food, George Kent (Food / Hunger)
Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement, Debra Schultz and Blanche Wiesen Cook (Civil Rights)
Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness, Cecile Andrews and Wanda Urbanska (Environment)
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (Women’s Rights)
Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel, Alon Tal (Environment)
Queer Jews, David Shneer and Caryn Aviv (LGBT)
School: The Story of American Public Education, Sarah Mondale (Education)
Social Justice in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near East, Moshe Weinfeld (Israel)
Storms Still Raging: Katrina, New Orleans and Social Justice, William Quigley (Civil Rights)
The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today’s, Heather Mac Donald (Immigration / Labor)
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, Paul Loeb (General)
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur, Daoud Hari (Genocide)
The Queer Community: Continuing the Struggle for Social Justice, Richard Johnson (LGBT)
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, Alex Kotlowitz (Civil Rights)
What is the What, Dave Eggers (Genocide)
Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Wont Do, Gabriel Thompson (Immigration / Labor)
World Religions for Healthcare Professionals, multiple editors (Healthcare)

From a Jewish lens…
Down to Earth Judaism: Food, Sex, Money and the Rest of Life, Arthur Waskow
Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice, Curtis Paul DeYoung
Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World, Sidney Schwarz
Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice, multiple eds.
The Color of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law & Tradition, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Elliot N. Dorff, Simon Greer
To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Noteworthy articles…
Personal Service: A Central Jewish Norm for Our Time, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Contact Autumn, 2001
Not Only for Ourselves, Editorial, and responses from TK Forward 12.2009
Next Time, Let’s Teach Social Justice in an Effective Way, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Forward, 1.2010
“Kavannah” Counts in Jewish Service Projects, Rabbi Jason Kimelman-Block, JTA 1.2010