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A JOURNAL OF JEWISH IDEAS
Covenant & Country
Jewish in America
Table of Contents
Summer 2026
FROM THE EDITOR
Covenant and Country
Claire E. Sufrin
DEFINING OUR COMMITMENTS
Judaism, Zionism, and the Promises of America
Michael Koplow
Towards a Covenantal Citizenship
Deborah Barer
Be a Jew in Public: Mark Podwal and The New York Times
Tamara Mann Tweel
Defining Judaism: Religion, Law, Nation, and Our Current Moment
Leora Batnitzky
EXPRESSING OUR VALUES
Does the Torah Really Articulate Democracy’s Fundamental Principles?
Jonathan D. Sarna
Coalition Work Is Messy: Lessons from a History of Compromise and Influence
Samira K. Mehta
Pushed Out, Pulled In: How the New Law of Church and State Is Reshaping Jewish Education in America
Michael A. Helfand
American Jewish Philanthropy’s Civic Mission
Rona Sheramy
TELLING OUR STORIES
Today’s American Jewish Writers and Readers: A Conversation with Naomi Firestone-Teeter and Lauren Wein
Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen
Who We Are and Who We Can Become: Jewish Storytelling and Democratic Imagination
Rebecca Leviss
