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Yoram Hazony, founder and provost of Jerusalem's Shalem Center, launched Jerusalem Letters, a series of email dispatches on philosophy, Judaism, Israel, and higher education, on January 15, 2010. Hazony earned a reputation as an innovative and provocative thinker for his books, The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul and The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther; as well as for his essays and articles in The New York Times, The New Republic, Commentary, and Azure. His next book is The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: An Introduction.

Jerusalem Letters, Hazony's first regular appearance on the web, comments on new books and old ones, important trends in academic research and public life, and an occasional film too. "These dispatches are a response to the growing demand for serious engagement between things Jewish and the world of ideas, especially among scholars, students, and educated lay people," says Hazony. "But I'll try to keep the scope broad. This isn't for specialists. It isn't just for Jews, either. It's for people looking to take part in a broader conversation."

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