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Ash­er Lev as a Mod­el for Rembrandt

Ear­li­er this week, Nina Sie­gal wrote about being Jew­ish in Ams­ter­dam. Her newest nov­el, The Anato­my Les­son, is now avail­able. She will be blog­ging here all week for…
Nina Sie­gal
June 25, 2014
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On Writ­ing Jew­ish Books For Children

by Leslie A. Kimmelman “Why do you write so many Jew­ish books for kids?” I’m asked frequently. The truth is, writ­ing Jew­ish books for kids was nev­er my inten­tion. Judaism…
Leslie Kim­mel­man
June 25, 2014
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Down­ton Abbey Made Me Do It

This week, JBC Net­work author Wendy Wax, the author of While We Were Watch­ing Down­ton Abbey, blogs for The Post­script on the inspi­ra­tion for writ­ing her newest…
Wendy Wax
June 24, 2014
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On Being Jew­ish in Amsterdam

Nina Sie­gal grew up in New York City and Great Neck, Long Island, but these days she lives in Ams­ter­dam, the Nether­lands, where she works as an author and a fre­quent…
Nina Sie­gal
June 23, 2014
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A Lega­cy of Fear

Ear­li­er this week, Devan Sipher wrote about a trav­el sto­ry in the bible that goes ter­ri­bly wrong and shared six things he learned writ­ing about wed­dings for The New…
Devan Sipher
June 20, 2014
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Writ­ing About The Holocaust

Ear­li­er this week, Mar­gare­ta Ack­er­man wrote about try­ing to rec­on­cile her gran­fa­ther’s hap­py per­son­al­i­ty with the hor­rors he suf­fered dur­ing the Holo­caust.…
Mar­gare­ta Ackerman
June 19, 2014
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