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David Klinghoffer

David Klinghoffer
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David Klinghoffer

David Klinghoffer is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. He is the author of five books including Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History (Doubleday, 2005), Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our Peril (Doubleday, 2007), and the spiritual memoir The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy (Free Press, 1999), a National Jewish Book Award finalist. A former senior editor of National Review magazine, he has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and many other publications.

The Gift of Rest will be released on August 07, 2012 in Trade Paperback
May 23, 2012
The Gift of Rest will be released on August 16, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 16, 2011
The Gift of Rest is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 16, 2011
The Gift of Rest will be released on August 16, 2011 in eBook
Aug 16, 2011
The Gift of Rest is now available in eBook
Aug 16, 2011
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Gift of Rest
Aug 04, 2011

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Kansas City Star, March 24, 2012
...Jews then and now reject that claim (the book to read is Why the Jews Rejected Jesus, by David Klinghoffer). "And," Wright says, "if Jesus is the Messiah, then his public career and death, and not some other way, is how Israel's God is accomplishing and...
Hartford Courant, November 11, 2011
...a senate vote.) His latest book is "The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath" with David Klinghoffer. All sold tickets will be honored and tickets at $20 per person are available at the Mandell JCC box office at 860-231-6316,...
West Hartford Patch, November 8, 2011
...call the Mandell JCC. Senator Joe Lieberman will discuss his new book, The Gift of Rest , written with David Klinghoffer. The Gift of Rest offers readers of all faiths insight on how the observance of the Sabbath had anchored and inspired the...
Frontpagemag.com, September 28, 2011
...in his own life as an Orthodox Jew and as an American. Though produced with the assistance of David Klinghoffer, a professional writer, The Gift of Rest is quintessentially Lieberman.  Conversational, humorous, and at the same time morally serious, it...
Miami Herald, September 4, 2011
...love song abut the Sabbath. THE GIFT OF REST: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath. Joe Lieberman with David Klinghoffer. Howard. 230 pages. $22. Millions of registered voters yearning to know about the love life of Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)...
Jewish Ledger, August 31, 2011
...describes how keeping the Sabbath can enhance the lives of men and women of all faiths. Co-written with David Klinghoffer, an author and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, “The Gift of Rest” serves as a personal and political...
Examiner.com, August 16, 2011
...will include a Symposium of nationally recognized figures discussing this topic, including: Joseph Lieberman, Felix Posen, Noah Feldman, David Klinghoffer, Robert Putnam, Avraham Infeld, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, David Wolpe, Adin Steinslatz, and...
Forward, March 1, 2012
...chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and a fourth-term senator, is also the author, with David Klinghoffer, of “The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath”(Howard Books, 2011). Many of the event’s 350...
FrontPage Magazine, September 28, 2011
...in his own life as an Orthodox Jew and as an American. Though produced with the assistance of David Klinghoffer, a professional writer, The Gift of Rest is quintessentially Lieberman.  Conversational, humorous, and at the same time morally serious,...
Uncommon Descent, September 21, 2011
...life (which means origin of the cell). Well now, Discovery Institute has – in the person of fellow David Klinghoffer – challenged him to explain: We extend this respectful invitation to Dr. Venema to read what Casey Luskin has to say and give us...
Evolution News & Views, August 15, 2011
...Today, Howard Press/Simon & Schuster publishes Senator Joe Lieberman's collaboration with Discovery Institute senior fellow David Klinghoffer, a "love song" to the philosophy, pleasures and practical observance of the traditional Sabbath. The Gift of...
Planet Atheism, August 13, 2011
...blog does not allow comments. That's why I'm posting a quotation from today's piece by David Klinghoffer: What Drives Darwinian Scientists to their Fury You may have wondered why Darwinists in academia get so worked up about intelligent design. Reading...
The Sensuous Curmudgeon, August 3, 2011
...fallacious materialist logic for why extraterrestrial life 'must' be possible."The new Discoveroid assault on Hawking is by David Klinghoffer, upon whom the Discoveroids have bestowed the exalted title of “senior fellow” (i.e., flaming, full-blown...
Evolution News & Views, June 10, 2011
...said that religion did not seem to play a role in mitigating the response to mortality salience. *As David Klinghoffer notes in his post on this study, apparently the Behe passage was not completely written by Dr. Behe. See here for his discussion....