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Google Book Preview for Is it Good for the Jews?

More information on Conquering Fear from Knopf

Recommended Reading for the Week of November 2, 2009



Official Website for The Art of Giving

More information on These Moutanins from Toby Press

Recommended Reading for the Week of October 26, 2009



Official Website for Susie Essman

More information on New Flavours of the Jewish Table

Recommended Reading for the Week of October 19, 2009



Official Website for Jay Michaelson

More on Torah Queeries from NYU Press

Recommended Reading for the Week of October 12, 2009



Official Website for Far From Zion

Official Website for Adam Langer

Recommended Reading for the Week of October 5, 2009



Official Website for Save the Deli

More on A Fine Romance from Nextbook Press

Recommended Reading for the Week of September 21, 2009



Melvin Urofsky discusses Louis D. Brandeis

Recommended Reading for the Week of September 14, 2009



Official Website for Morris Dickstein

More on The Seven Questions You're Asked in Heaven from Jewish Lights

Recommended Reading for the Week of September 7, 2009



Review of Bending Toward the Sun from Jewish Book World

Official Website for Michael Wex

Recommended Reading for the Week of August 31, 2009



David Minkoff's Jewish jokes website

Official Website for The Monuments Men

Recommended Reading for the Week of August 24, 2009



Benjamin Moser on "Chasing Clarice Lispector" for the JBC Blog

Official Website for Faye Kellerman

Recommended Reading for the Week of August 17, 2009



Review of Israel is Real in The Washington Post

Official Website for Daniel Levin

Recommended Reading for the Week of August 10, 2009



KillingtheBuddah.com

Main Website for Jewish Cooking Boot Camp

Recommended Reading for the Week of August 3, 2009



Betsy Carter's Official Website

Main Website for Jewish Cooking Boot Camp

Recommended Reading for the Week of July 27, 2009



Video of Elie Wiesel on Rashi and Book Discussion Guide

Main Website for Rashi's Daughters Series

Recommended Reading for the Week of July 20, 2009



Malka Drucker's Website

Jonathan Tropper's Website

Recommended Reading for the Week of July 13, 2009



More on Yoel Hoffmann

Daniel Silva's Official Website

Recommended Reading for the Week of July 6, 2009



Mary Guterson's Wesbite

Official Website of I.F. Stone

Recommended Reading for the Week of June 29, 2009



Interview with Allan Appel

Norman Lebrecht's Website

Recommended Reading for the Week of June 22, 2009



Official Website for Standing By

Joshua Halberstam's Website

Recommended Reading for the Week of June 15, 2009



Austin Ratner's Official Website

Review of Myths, Illusions, and Peace

Recommended Reading for the Week of June 1, 2009



Review of The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot

Sally Koslow's Official Website

Recommended Reading for the Week of May 25, 2009



Interview with Jeffrey Gurock

Official Publisher's Site for Barbie and Ruth

Recommended Reading for the Week of May 19, 2009



Official Website for Einstein on Israel

Official Website for Daniel Gordis

Recommended Reading for the Week of May 11, 2009



Seldes on writing Leonard Bernstein

Book Club Resources for The White Space Between

Recommended Reading for the Week of May 4, 2009




Binnie Kirshenbaum's Website

Interview with Norah Labiner

Recommended Reading for the Week of April 27, 2009




2004 Profile of Amos Oz in The New Yorker

Recommended Reading for the Week of March 23, 2009




Interview with Avivah Zornberg at The Forward

Recommended Reading for the Week of March 16, 2009




Publisher's Website for Where We Find Ourselves, with Table of Contents

Review of Laish in NY Times

Recommended Reading for the Week of March 9, 2009




Interview with Zoe Heller on Nextbook

Interview with David Plotz

Recommended Reading for the Week of March 1, 2009




Review of A Mad Desire to Dance in Moment

Website for American Jewish Fiction

Excerpt of Confessions... in The Forward

Recommended Reading for the Week of February 9, 2009




More on Jonathon Keats in the San Francisco Chronicle

Joseph Telushkin's Website

Recommended Reading for the Week of February 2, 2009




More on Sholem Aleichem from MyJewishLearning.com

Recommended Reading for the Week of January 19, 2009




Review of Innocent Abroad in the International Herald Tribune

Review of Disguise in the Guardian

Recommended Reading for the Week of January 12, 2009




More on The Jewish Body at Nextbook.org

Publisher's Site for Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon

Recommended Reading for the Week of December 22, 2008




New York Times article on The Bagel

Recommended Reading for the Week of December 15, 2008




Linda Grant's Official Website

Make 'Em Laugh on PBS

Recommended Reading for the Week of December 8, 2008




Excerpt from Captives on Jewcy.com

Google Book Preview of New Jewish Feminism

Recommended Reading for the Week of November 22, 2008




Exhibit Information at the Jewish Museum


Recommended Reading for the Week of November 17, 2008




Review of Three Balconies in The New York Times

Review of Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean in Haaretz

Recommended Reading for the Week of October 27, 2008




Ami Silber's Website

Ariel Sabar's Website

Recommended Reading for the Week of October 13, 2008




Arie Kaplan's Website

Review of Jamilti on OregonLive.com

Recommended Reading for the Week of October 6, 2008




Jonathan Sarna's What Judgment Teaches Us

Alan Zweibel on David Letterman discussing Clothing Optional

Recommended Reading for the Week of September 22, 2008




Review of Jewish Dharma on Spirituality and Practice.com

Review of This Must Be the Place in The New York Times

Recommended Reading for the Week of September 1, 2008




Writing in the Dark in The New York Times

Review of Friendly Fire in Publisher's Weekly

Recommended Reading for the Week of August 18, 2008




More books on Jewish humor from the Jewish Museum


Recommended Reading for the Week of August 11, 2008




More on Daniel Libeskind

Website of Sherre Hirsch

Recommended Reading for the Week of August 4, 2008




Website of Rachel Papo


Recommended Reading for the Week of July 28, 2008




Camp Camp on the Huffington Post

Publisher's site for Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes

Publisher's site for The World A Moment Later

Recommended Reading for the Week of July 7, 2008




Website of Sadia Shepard

Website of Aleksandar Hemon

Recommended Reading for the Week of June 23, 2008




Publisher's Website for In the Mouth

Website of Brad Hirschfield

Recommended Reading for the Week of June 9, 2008




An Interview with Steve Stern

Publisher's site for Brotherhood of Warriors

Recommended Reading for the Week of May 26, 2008




Excerpt of Rabbi's Cat 2

Review of Ghettostadt

Recommended Reading for the Week of May 19, 2008




Review of Hip Kosher

Official Site for The Jewish Princess Coobook

Publisher's Site for Healthy Cooking for the Jewish Home


Recommended Reading for the Week of May 12, 2008




Etgar Keret's Homepage

Official Site for 101+ Ways to Help Israel

Recommended Reading for the Week of April 15, 2008




The Case of New Mexico's "Hidden Jews" in the Atlantic

Recommended Reading for the Week of April 7, 2008




Article about Cynthia Ozick on MyJewishLearning.com

An interview with Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, co-editor of Righteous Indignation, on SocialAction.com

Recommended Reading for the Week of March 31, 2008




Table of Contents for Aruging With the Storm

Article about Bernard Malamud on MyJewishLearning.com

Recommended Reading for the Week of March 24, 2008




Read an Excerpt from To This Day

Publisher's Website for Eternally Eve

Recommended Reading for the Week of February 25th, 2008




More Information on Mayor Ed Koch

Official Website of Aileen G. Baron

Recommended Reading for the Week of February 18th, 2008




Official Website for Leonard Cole

Browse an Electronic Version of Beaufort on the Publisher's Website

Recommended Reading for the Week of February 11th, 2008




Google Book Preview of Second Diasporist Manifesto

Official Website for Evan Fallenberg

Recommended Reading for the Week of February 4th, 2008




Publisher's Website for The Moscow Yiddish Theater

Official Website for Tatiana de Rosnay

Recommended Reading for the Week of January 28th, 2008




Google Book Preview of Farewell, Babylon

NPR Book Review of The Pale of Settlement

Recommended Reading for the Week of January 21st, 2008




Official Website for Haim Watzman

Official Website for Geraldine Brooks

Recommended Reading for the Week of January 7th, 2008




Official Homepage for the PBS Documentary on The Jewish Americans

Reading Guide for As a Driven Leaf

Recommended Reading for the Week of December 24th, 2007




Google Book Preview of Celebrating the Jewish Year

Excerpt fromA Pigeon and a Boy


Recommended Reading for the Week of December 17th, 2007




Official blog for They Called Me Mayer July

New York Times review of The Jew of Home Depot


Recommended Reading for the Week of December 10th, 2007




Publisher's site for How to Spell Chanukah

New York Times review of Bearing the Body


Recommended Reading for the Week of November 26th, 2007




Why Abraham H Foxman wrote The Deadliest Lies

A review of All Whom I Have Loved


Recommended Reading for the Week of November 19th, 2007




Excerpt from Abraham's Children

Daniel Silva's Official Site


Recommended Reading for the Week of October 29th, 2007




Official Site for The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's

David Evanier's Official Site


Recommended Reading for the Week of October 22nd, 2007




Review of Churchill's Promised Land from the St.Louis Jewish Light

Browse inside The Septembers of Shiraz


Recommended Reading for the Week of October 15th, 2007




Review of Bagels and Grits from J. the Jewish News of Weekly of Northern California

Katharine Weber's Homepage


Recommended Reading for the Week of October 8th, 2007




Homepage for The Faith Between Us

Review of Matrimony from The New York Times


Recommended Reading for the Week of October 1st, 2007




Diane Ackermans' Homepage

Ellen Litman's Homepage


Recommended Reading for the Week of September 24th, 2007




Interview with Alana Newhouse on Zeek.net

Victoria Redel's Homepage


Recommended Reading for the Week of September 17th, 2007




Interview with Joyce Antler on YouTube

Charlotte Mendelson's Homepage


Recommended Reading for the Week of September 10th, 2007




Review of Inventing Jewish Rituals on myjewishlearning.com

Landsman Homepage


Recommended Reading for the Week of September 3rd, 2007




Official Site for God's To-Do List

Michael Lowenthal's Official Site


Recommended Reading for the Week of August 27th, 2007




Ari Goldman's Homepage

Review of A Day of Small Beginnings in the Forward


Recommended Reading for the Week of August 20th, 2007




Preview of Einstein

More Information on If You Awaken Love from the Publisher


Recommended Reading for the Week of August 13th, 2007




More Information about Ruth Wisse

Gina Nahai's Homepage


Recommended Reading for the Week of August 6th, 2007




More Information about Howard Jacobson

Official Site for Talking Hands


Recommended Reading for the Week of July 30th, 2007




Excerpt from Dropped From Heaven

More Information on Statecraft


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