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DAN FRIEDMAN

Dan Friedman is the director of content and communications at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. Formerly the award-winning executive editor of the Forward, he has also written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Da Ali G Show, and is the author of Shout to Change, an eBook about 1980s rock group Tears for Fears. Dan has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale and an MA in English Literature from Cambridge where he captained the university soccer team.
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ARTICLES

Dave Barry and the Jews

Dave Barry and the Jews

It’s funny, yes, but is it good for the Jews?

An Exquisite Cacophony: On Jay Wexler’s “Our Non-Christian Nation”

An Exquisite Cacophony: On Jay Wexler’s “Our Non-Christian Nation”

Dan Friedman reviews Jay Wexler's new book, "Our Non-Christian Nation."

A Raucous Festival: On Matt Richtel’s “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives”

A Raucous Festival: On Matt Richtel’s “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives”

Dan Friedman appreciates “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives” by Matt Richtel.

A Literary Lineup for the World Cup

A Literary Lineup for the World Cup

Dan Friedman offers a list of books for those obsessed or perplexed by the World Cup.

The Words We Don’t Use: On Eviatar Zerubavel’s “Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable”

The Words We Don’t Use: On Eviatar Zerubavel’s “Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable”

Dan Friedman parses “Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable” by Eviatar Zerubavel.

Framing Our World: On Vanda Krefft’s “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox”

Framing Our World: On Vanda Krefft’s “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox”

Dan Friedman unreels “The Man Who Made the Movies,” a biography of William Fox by Vanda Krefft.

The Robots Are Coming! (They’re Already Here)

The Robots Are Coming! (They’re Already Here)

Dan Friedman reviews “The Clockwork Dynasty,” the latest novel by futurist Daniel H. Wilson.

Getting Folks to Come Out to Your Kickball Game: Dennie Wendt’s American Soccer Novel

Getting Folks to Come Out to Your Kickball Game: Dennie Wendt’s American Soccer Novel

Dan Friedman plays ball with “Hooper’s Revolution” by Dennie Wendt.

The Astounding Achievement, Maybe, of the Man Who Definitely Wasn’t Fibonacci

The Astounding Achievement, Maybe, of the Man Who Definitely Wasn’t Fibonacci

Dan Friedman reckons with “Finding Fibonacci” by Keith Devlin.

Life, the Beautiful Game

Life, the Beautiful Game

Dan Friedman reviews “Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game” by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund.

Cruyff’s Turn on the World Stage

Cruyff’s Turn on the World Stage

Daniel Friedman reviews “My Turn: A Life of Total Football” by Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff.

Maybe You Just Don’t Get It: Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Here I Am”

Maybe You Just Don’t Get It: Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Here I Am”

Dan Friedman unpacks “Here I Am” by Jonathan Safran Foer.

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