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Essay 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
Essay 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
Essay 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
Essay 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
Essay Reading Freedom Summer by Dina WeinsteinBooks on the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer are classified under African American history and civil rights. But the project was rife with Jewish… Dina Weinstein June 18, 2014
Essay The Path of a Wandering Jew Earlier this week, Devan Sipher shared six things he learned writing about weddings for The New York Times. He is a writer of the Vows wedding column in The New York… Devan Sipher June 18, 2014