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JBC Staff Articles Interviews Recommended Reading Ah…finally…more Shalom Auslander Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAs big Shalom Auslander fans over here (Beware of God and Foreskin’s Lament) we were thrilled to get this update from Tablet… JBC Staff January 7, 2010 Recommended Reading 7 Books To Give For Hanukkah Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJonathan Kirsch of The Huffington Post offers seven books to give for Hanukkah:My own list is an interfaith effort, and I am… JBC Staff December 2, 2009 News YM Books Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWe just received word about a new endeavor from Yaldah Magazine, a magazine for Jewish girls, by Jewish girls, has… JBC Staff November 24, 2009 News Project Aladdin: Arabic and Farsi Translations of Key Holocaust Works Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLiel Leibovitz of TabletMag looks at Project Aladdin, a new initiative to publish Holocaust works in Farsi and… JBC Staff November 3, 2009 Video Philip Roth on the future of the novel Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter Tina Brown of The Daily Beast asks Philip Roth about the future of the novel: Check out the video and let us know what you… JBC Staff October 23, 2009 Recommended Reading It’s Coming Soon…JSF on Eating Animals Posted By Naomi Firestone-TeeterJonathan Safran Foer‘s newest book Eating Animals will be published on November 2nd by Little, Brown and Company. Eating… JBC Staff October 14, 2009 News Josef Burg, Yiddish author, dies at 97 Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times reports on the death of Josef Burg, one of the last Yiddish authors in Eastern Europe, whose death on August 10, 2009,… JBC Staff October 7, 2009 Recommended Reading Can’t Think of a Recipe for Sukkot? Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNeed a new recipe for Sukkot? Check out these new cookbooks:Jewish Slow Cooker Recipes (Laura Frankel)In Jewish Slow Cooker… JBC Staff October 1, 2009 News Reading the Talmud on the B Train Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times published an interesting article yesterday by Alexis Mainland on reading while traveling on the NYC subway… JBC Staff September 4, 2009 News Readers Dissect Tony Horwitz’s review of Israel is Real Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterSteve Coates of the NY Times Paper Cuts Blog shares readers’ letters in response to Tony Horwitz’s review of Israel Is… JBC Staff September 2, 2009 News Holocaust Novel Coming Soon from Author of Life of Pie Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLife of Pi author Yann Martel just sold the rights to his third book to Spiegel & Grau. The new book is an allegory about the… JBC Staff July 20, 2009 Essay Ariel Sabar: A Time to Put Aside the Armor Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAriel Sabar, author of My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, wrote an essay for last… JBC Staff July 20, 2009 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 16 Next page ›› News 2019 National Jewish Book Award Auction February 19, 2020
Recommended Reading Ah…finally…more Shalom Auslander Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAs big Shalom Auslander fans over here (Beware of God and Foreskin’s Lament) we were thrilled to get this update from Tablet… JBC Staff January 7, 2010
Recommended Reading 7 Books To Give For Hanukkah Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJonathan Kirsch of The Huffington Post offers seven books to give for Hanukkah:My own list is an interfaith effort, and I am… JBC Staff December 2, 2009
News YM Books Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWe just received word about a new endeavor from Yaldah Magazine, a magazine for Jewish girls, by Jewish girls, has… JBC Staff November 24, 2009
News Project Aladdin: Arabic and Farsi Translations of Key Holocaust Works Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLiel Leibovitz of TabletMag looks at Project Aladdin, a new initiative to publish Holocaust works in Farsi and… JBC Staff November 3, 2009
Video Philip Roth on the future of the novel Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter Tina Brown of The Daily Beast asks Philip Roth about the future of the novel: Check out the video and let us know what you… JBC Staff October 23, 2009
Recommended Reading It’s Coming Soon…JSF on Eating Animals Posted By Naomi Firestone-TeeterJonathan Safran Foer‘s newest book Eating Animals will be published on November 2nd by Little, Brown and Company. Eating… JBC Staff October 14, 2009
News Josef Burg, Yiddish author, dies at 97 Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times reports on the death of Josef Burg, one of the last Yiddish authors in Eastern Europe, whose death on August 10, 2009,… JBC Staff October 7, 2009
Recommended Reading Can’t Think of a Recipe for Sukkot? Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNeed a new recipe for Sukkot? Check out these new cookbooks:Jewish Slow Cooker Recipes (Laura Frankel)In Jewish Slow Cooker… JBC Staff October 1, 2009
News Reading the Talmud on the B Train Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times published an interesting article yesterday by Alexis Mainland on reading while traveling on the NYC subway… JBC Staff September 4, 2009
News Readers Dissect Tony Horwitz’s review of Israel is Real Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterSteve Coates of the NY Times Paper Cuts Blog shares readers’ letters in response to Tony Horwitz’s review of Israel Is… JBC Staff September 2, 2009
News Holocaust Novel Coming Soon from Author of Life of Pie Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLife of Pi author Yann Martel just sold the rights to his third book to Spiegel & Grau. The new book is an allegory about the… JBC Staff July 20, 2009
Essay Ariel Sabar: A Time to Put Aside the Armor Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAriel Sabar, author of My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, wrote an essay for last… JBC Staff July 20, 2009
