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Helen Weiss Pincus

Award-win­ning jour­nal­ist and free­lance writer, Helen Weiss Pin­cus, has taught mem­oir writ­ing and cre­ative writ­ing through­out the NY Metro area to senior cit­i­zens and high school stu­dents. Her work has been pub­lished in The New York Times, The Record, The Jew­ish Stan­dard, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She recent­ly added ​“Bub­by” to her job description.

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Mighty Inside
Sundee T. Frazier
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Raque­la’s Seder
Joel Edward Stein, Sara Ugolotti (Illustrator)
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My Fine Fellow
Jennieke Cohen
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Not So Fast, Max: A Rosh Hashanah Vis­it with Grandma
Annette Schottenfeld, Jennifer Kirkham (Illustrator)
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Hid­ing Baby Moses
Judith L. Roth, Melanie Cataldo (illus.)
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Sarah Bern­hardt: The Divine and Daz­zling Life of the World’s First Super Star
Cather­ine Reef
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Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Sarah Kapit
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The Ghost in Apart­ment 2R
Denis Markell
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A Place at the Table
Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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A Light in the Dark­ness: Janusz Kor­czak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
Albert Mar­rin
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Room for One More
Monique Polak
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Pic­ture Girl
Marlene Targ Brill; Michael Sayre, illus.
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A Cage With­out Bars
Anne Dublin
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Fierce: How Com­pet­ing for Myself Changed Everything
Aly Raisman
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Non­fic­tion
Des­tiny
Ken Spiro

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