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Alan Kotok is a Washington, DC-based reporter and writer on technology, business, and public policy, and managing editor of Science Careers, the online employment, career development, and funding portal of Science Magazine.

Kotok has written or co-authored three books, including the Handbook of EDI, 2003 edition, published in November 2003 by Warren, Gorham and Lamont, an imprint of Thompson/RIA. He is lead author of ebXML: The New Global Standard for Doing Business on the Internet (New Riders, 2001), and lead author of Print Communications and the Electronic Media Challenge (Jelmar Publishing Co, 1997).

Besides books, Kotok writes for several technology and business magazines and Web sites including WebServices.Org and XML.Com focusing on business and public-sector applications. From 2001 to 2003, he served as editor of the U.S. Techno-Politics page on Suite101.Com. His magazine publishing credits include Electronic Commerce World, Foreign Service Journal, ActionLine (automotive industry), and Managed Healthcare Executive. Kotok founded and served as editor of ebXML Forum, an independent online journal on the Electronic Business XML (ebXML) standards, and Web site manager of Public Diplomacy.Org.

Religion & Spirituality > Judaism The history of Judaism

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Review of The New American Judaism by Arthur Blecher, Palgrave MacMillan, October 2007 (ISBN 1403977461, 256 pp., hardcover). Arthur Blecher's The New American Judaism may not be the official companion book for PBS's recent series on Jews in America, but it should be. Like the PBS series, Blecher examines the rich history of American Jewish experience, but he goes beyond the present, outlining a vision of the future for American Jews that's both challenging and encouraging. Blecher, originally ordained as a Conservative rabbi, now serves as rabbi of Beth Chai, a Humanistic Jewish congregat...

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