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    Essay

    A New Take on Old Clas­sics: How a Rab­bi Approach­es Chal­leng­ing Questions

    Ear­li­er this week, Rab­bi Lawrence Hajioff wrote about the ben­e­fits of crowd­fund­ing one’s book. His book, Jew Got Ques­tions?, is now avail­able. He will be blog­ging here…
    Rab­bi Lawrence Hajioff
    January 7, 2015
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    Inter­view: Ani­ta Diamant

    by Lau­rel CoronaJew­ish Book Coun­cil recent­ly sat down with Ani­ta Dia­mant, author of The Red Tent, whose most recent book, The Boston Girl, was pub­lished in Decem­ber by…
    Lau­rel Corona
    January 6, 2015
    Essay

    Five Rea­sons You Should Crowd­fund Your Next Book

    Orig­i­nal­ly from Lon­don, Eng­land, Rab­bi Lawrence Hajioff grad­u­at­ed with hon­ors in polit­i­cal sci­ence from Man­ches­ter Uni­ver­si­ty. After work­ing for MTV in news…
    Rab­bi Lawrence Hajioff
    January 5, 2015
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    Fam­i­ly His­to­ries and Fiction

    Ear­li­er this week, Ron­na Wineberg wrote about say­ing Kad­dish for her moth­er and also shared a delet­ed scene from her first nov­el, On Bit­ter­sweet Place. She…
    Ron­na Wineberg
    December 26, 2014
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    Eight Nights with Hevria: The Alchemist, The Gob­blings, and Hasidic Tales

    One year ago, the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil launched the 8 Nights of Sto­ries series on The Pros­en­Peo­ple. For each of the eight nights of Chanukah, the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil…
    MaN­ish­tana, Tzvi Kilov, Yocheved Sid­of
    December 24, 2014
    Essay

    The Lit­tle Shul

    Ear­li­er this week, Ron­na Wineberg wrote about Chanukah and shared a delet­ed scene from her first nov­el, On Bit­ter­sweet Place. She will be blog­ging here all week for…
    Ron­na Wineberg
    December 23, 2014
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