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Essay A Miraculous Baseball Team Earlier this week, Charles S. Sherman wrote about a life-altering event and how he’s handled the challenge. His book, The Broken and the Whole: Discovering Joy… Charles S. Sherman February 26, 2014 Essay Six Degrees of Kevin’s Bacon: Who’s Jewish in Hollywood? Earlier this week, Emily Stone wrote about Jews and sports (have you taken her quiz “Athlete or Mathlete?”). Her book, Did Jew Know: A Handy Primer on the Customs,… Emily Stone February 26, 2014 Interview Interview: Leah Vincent In partnership with JewSchool, JBC sat down with Leah Vincent to discuss her recently published memoir, Cut Me Loose: Sin & Salvation After My Ultra Orthodox… JBC Staff February 25, 2014 Essay Recalling Professor Dov Noy: World’s Foremost Jewish Folklorist by Howard SchwartzNo one would deny that Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem are colossal figures in the fields of Hasidism and Kabbalah. But not everyone realizes that… Howard Schwartz February 25, 2014 Interview Interview: David Laskin by Elise CooperDavid Laskin’s book, The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, is a gripping tale that traces the roots of the author’s… Elise Cooper February 25, 2014 Essay The Lost Shtetl This week, Anne-Marie O’Connor, the author of The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer blogs for The… Anne-Marie O’Connor February 25, 2014 Pagination Previous page Newer Current page338 Next page Older Pagination First page 1 … Page336 Page337 Current page338 Page339 Page340 … Last page 523
Essay A Miraculous Baseball Team Earlier this week, Charles S. Sherman wrote about a life-altering event and how he’s handled the challenge. His book, The Broken and the Whole: Discovering Joy… Charles S. Sherman February 26, 2014
Essay Six Degrees of Kevin’s Bacon: Who’s Jewish in Hollywood? Earlier this week, Emily Stone wrote about Jews and sports (have you taken her quiz “Athlete or Mathlete?”). Her book, Did Jew Know: A Handy Primer on the Customs,… Emily Stone February 26, 2014
Interview Interview: Leah Vincent In partnership with JewSchool, JBC sat down with Leah Vincent to discuss her recently published memoir, Cut Me Loose: Sin & Salvation After My Ultra Orthodox… JBC Staff February 25, 2014
Essay Recalling Professor Dov Noy: World’s Foremost Jewish Folklorist by Howard SchwartzNo one would deny that Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem are colossal figures in the fields of Hasidism and Kabbalah. But not everyone realizes that… Howard Schwartz February 25, 2014
Interview Interview: David Laskin by Elise CooperDavid Laskin’s book, The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, is a gripping tale that traces the roots of the author’s… Elise Cooper February 25, 2014
Essay The Lost Shtetl This week, Anne-Marie O’Connor, the author of The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer blogs for The… Anne-Marie O’Connor February 25, 2014
