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JBC Staff Articles Interviews News Movies and Music plus Jewish Authors Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterTwo of our favorite authors delve into the world of film and music:Etgar Keret on adapting his work for the screen for… JBC Staff April 9, 2010 Recommended Reading Nine Fiction Writers and the Sabbath Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterA wonderful piece from Tablet, prompted by Judith Shulevitz’s new book The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of… JBC Staff March 19, 2010 Recommended Reading New Haggadah from the JDC Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLooking for a new Haggadah to enhance your Seder this year? Check out this new, beautiful Haggadah from the JDC: In Every… JBC Staff March 18, 2010 Essay Is Alexander Portnoy Bad for the Jews? Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIs Alexander Portnoy bad for the Jews?Jason Diamond, editor of Jewcy.com, explores the question:Alex Portnoy: fictional… JBC Staff March 15, 2010 Excerpt Steve Stern’s The Frozen Rabbi Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThis is week one of Tablet’s serialization of novelist Steve Stern’s forthcoming The Frozen Rabbi (Algonquin Books). Read… JBC Staff March 1, 2010 Recommended Reading The Classics are Back Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAs a part of the spring 2010 JPS catalog, they’re re-launching five classic JPS books:Judaism as… JBC Staff February 15, 2010 Recommended Reading The Jew and the Condom Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJason Diamond writes for Jewcy about Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer’s Fromms: How Julius Fromm’s Condom Empire Fell to the… JBC Staff February 12, 2010 Essay Love and Marriage by David Sax Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter Cut-out book of Valentines circa 1940. David Sax, author of Save the Deli, writes for Tablet mag on romance, love, and… JBC Staff February 12, 2010 Interview MJL Interviews Goldie Goldbloom Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterMatthue Roth interviews Goldie Goldbloom, author of Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders for MyJewishLearning:We spoke to… JBC Staff February 9, 2010 Essay Remembering Avrom Sutzkever Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAvrom Sutzkever, 1950 – photo by Fritz CohenJeremy Dauber writes for The New Republic on the Yiddish poet Avrom… JBC Staff February 2, 2010 Essay Etgar Keret on Fat Cats Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterEtgar Keret writes for Tablet mag about “Fat Cats:”Ehud Olmert, like the author’s son, believes in the feline defense: ‘I’m… JBC Staff January 22, 2010 Recommended Reading Is a Dragon Kosher? Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJewcy.com takes a look at Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s forthcoming The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil… JBC Staff January 7, 2010 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 15 Next page ›› News 2019 National Jewish Book Award Auction February 19, 2020
News Movies and Music plus Jewish Authors Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterTwo of our favorite authors delve into the world of film and music:Etgar Keret on adapting his work for the screen for… JBC Staff April 9, 2010
Recommended Reading Nine Fiction Writers and the Sabbath Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterA wonderful piece from Tablet, prompted by Judith Shulevitz’s new book The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of… JBC Staff March 19, 2010
Recommended Reading New Haggadah from the JDC Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLooking for a new Haggadah to enhance your Seder this year? Check out this new, beautiful Haggadah from the JDC: In Every… JBC Staff March 18, 2010
Essay Is Alexander Portnoy Bad for the Jews? Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIs Alexander Portnoy bad for the Jews?Jason Diamond, editor of Jewcy.com, explores the question:Alex Portnoy: fictional… JBC Staff March 15, 2010
Excerpt Steve Stern’s The Frozen Rabbi Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThis is week one of Tablet’s serialization of novelist Steve Stern’s forthcoming The Frozen Rabbi (Algonquin Books). Read… JBC Staff March 1, 2010
Recommended Reading The Classics are Back Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAs a part of the spring 2010 JPS catalog, they’re re-launching five classic JPS books:Judaism as… JBC Staff February 15, 2010
Recommended Reading The Jew and the Condom Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJason Diamond writes for Jewcy about Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer’s Fromms: How Julius Fromm’s Condom Empire Fell to the… JBC Staff February 12, 2010
Essay Love and Marriage by David Sax Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter Cut-out book of Valentines circa 1940. David Sax, author of Save the Deli, writes for Tablet mag on romance, love, and… JBC Staff February 12, 2010
Interview MJL Interviews Goldie Goldbloom Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterMatthue Roth interviews Goldie Goldbloom, author of Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders for MyJewishLearning:We spoke to… JBC Staff February 9, 2010
Essay Remembering Avrom Sutzkever Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAvrom Sutzkever, 1950 – photo by Fritz CohenJeremy Dauber writes for The New Republic on the Yiddish poet Avrom… JBC Staff February 2, 2010
Essay Etgar Keret on Fat Cats Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterEtgar Keret writes for Tablet mag about “Fat Cats:”Ehud Olmert, like the author’s son, believes in the feline defense: ‘I’m… JBC Staff January 22, 2010
Recommended Reading Is a Dragon Kosher? Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJewcy.com takes a look at Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s forthcoming The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil… JBC Staff January 7, 2010
