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Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter
Summer is…almost here.
Keep your eyes open for these upcoming titles as you browse the shelves this Summer:
July
The Hebrew Tutor of Bel Air (Allan Appel)
Israel Is Real (Rich Cohen)
Drawing in the Dust(Zoe Klein)
August
Jewish Cooking Boot Camp: The Modern Girl’s Guide to Cooking Like a Jewish Grandmother (Andrea Marks Carneiro and Roz Marks)
Rashi’s Daughters, Book III: Rachel: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France (Maggie Anton)
Rage Against the Meshugenah: Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts (Danny Evans)
September (Ok, not quite Summer still, but close enough)
The Jewish Princess: Feasts and Festivals: With Family and Friends (Georgie Tarn and Tracey Fine)
Day After Night (Anita Diamant)
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment (A.J. Jacobs)
And on the Fall horizon (don’t worry, we’ll remind you…):
Save the Deli: Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen (David Sax)
Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection (Shana Liebman)
Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism (Jay Michaelson)
America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story (Bruce Feiler)
Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Naomi Firestone-Teeter is the CEO of the Jewish Book Council. Prior to becoming executive director and then CEO, she served as founding editor of the JBC website and managing editor of Jewish Book World. Naomi sits on the board of Jewish Creativity International.Naomi was named to the New York Jewish Week’s 2019 “36 Under 36” and Algemeiner’s 2018 list of the 100 people positively influencing Jewish life and was included on the Global Jewish 100 list by Izzy in 2020. She graduated from Emory University with degrees in English and Art History and, in addition, studied at University College London. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.