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Paula Chaiken

Paula Chaiken has worked in a vari­ety of capac­i­ties in the Jew­ish world — teach­ing in reli­gious school, curat­ing at the Sper­tus Muse­um and fundrais­ing for the Fed­er­a­tion — for more than twen­ty years. She also runs a bou­tique pub­lic rela­tions con­sult­ing firm and enjoys read­ing all sorts of books with her three sons.
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Arlene Rosen­feld Schenker
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Chiara Fedele
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Every Sto­ry Ever Told
Ami Polon­sky
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Lucky Pen­ny
Aimee Lucido; Jon Davis, illus.
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Bare­foot in the Sand
Havvah Deevon; Rotem Teplow, illus.; Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann, trans.
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Jew­ish Mind­ful­ness for Kids
Blanca Sissa; Camila Carrossine, illus.
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A Gift of Feathers
Ken Schept; Romina Galotta, illus.
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Dream by Dream: The Sto­ry of Rab­bi Isaac May­er Wise
Geri Kolesar; Sofia Moore, illus.
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Shoshi’s Shab­bat
Caryn Yacowitz; Kevin Hawkes, illus.
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Grape, Again!
Gabriel Arquile­vich
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A Place to Belong: Deb­bie Fried­man Sings Her Way Home
Deborah Lakritz; Julie Castano, illus. 
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An Invi­ta­tion to Passover
Rabbi Kerry Olitzky and Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen; Mariia Kolker, illus.
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Awe-some Days: Poems about the Jew­ish Holidays
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Mon­ster Bar Mitzvah
Josh Ander­son
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The Stars Will Be My Nightlight
Jen Halpern; Chiara Fedele, illus.
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“Nice” Jew­ish Girls
Julia Merberg; Georgia Rucker, illus.

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