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    Miri­am Brad­man Abrahams

    Miri­am Brad­man Abra­hams, mom, grand­mom, avid read­er, some­time writer, born in Havana, raised in Brook­lyn, resid­ing in Long Beach on Long Island. Long­time for­mer One Region One Book chair and JBC liai­son for Nas­sau Hadas­sah, cur­rent­ly pre­sent­ing Inci­dent at San Miguel with author AJ Sidran­sky who wrote the his­tor­i­cal fic­tion based on her Cuban Jew­ish refugee family’s expe­ri­ences dur­ing the rev­o­lu­tion. Flu­ent in Span­ish and Hebrew, cer­ti­fied hatha yoga instructor.

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    Inter­view: Ruchama King Feuerman

    by Miri­am Brad­man AbrahamsRuchama King Feuerman’s lat­est nov­el, In the Court­yard of the Kab­bal­ist, has been praised by the Wall Street Jour­nal among many oth­er…
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    by Miri­am Brad­man Abra­hams Speak­ing with Dara Horn on the phone felt like con­vers­ing with one of my bright­est, most enthu­si­as­tic friends. Since I was the…
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