Rabbi A. James Rudin

Rabbi A. James Rudin (he/him) is the former head of the American Jewish Committee’s Department of Interreligious Affairs and author of seven books, including The People In The Room: Rabbis, Nuns, Pastors, Popes, And Presidents. He served as a U.S. Air Force chaplain in Japan and Korea.

 

Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "The American Dream"

Rabbi A. James Rudin
Many American Jews shuddered as Donald Trump proclaimed, “The American Dream is dead!” and “America first!” to rally crowds during his 2016 presidential campaign. We remembered how, in the late 1930s and early 1940s, these slogans were an open call for virulent anti-Semitism, pro-Nazi sentiment, white supremacy, xenophobia, and nativism.

Mavericks, Mystics & False Messiahs: Episodes from the Margins of Jewish History

Rabbi A. James Rudin
In Mavericks, Mystics & False Messiahs: Episodes from the Margins of Jewish History, Pini Dunner provides a series of bizarre stories describing how some Jews crashed through conventional guardrails of staid Jewish tradition and sped forward onto aberrant lanes of false messiahs, forgers of Passover Haggadot, rabbis searching for subversive religious meanings of Hebrew amulets, and an 18 th-century British lord who converted to Judaism.

Promised Land: A Novel of Israel

Rabbi A. James Rudin
Martin Fletcher, the former NBC bureau chief in Israel, describes his 409-page novel in three words: “ Exodus meets ‘ Dallas.’” And indeed it is.