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Essay

Lost Sto­ries

Jen­nifer Gilmore​’s newest nov­el, The Moth­ers, is now avail­able. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.The Moth­ers is my…
Jen­nifer Gilmore
April 9, 2013
Recommended Reading

Book Cov­er of the Week: The Book of Schmaltz

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterMichael Ruhlman’s The Book of Schmaltz: Love Song of a For­got­ten Fat, which is cur­rent­ly avail­able for iPads, will be pub­lished as an…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
April 9, 2013
Essay

A Ques­tion for You

Boaz Yakin has been blog­ging here all week for JBC and MJL. Edi­tor’s Note: The views expressed by Vis­it­ing Scribes are their own.Hey, I have a ques­tion for you:…
Boaz Yakin
April 8, 2013
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A Kvetchy Correspondence

Between Feb­ru­ary 15, 2013 and March 10, 2013, Alli­son Amend and Austin Rat­ner, two mem­bers of the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize ​“class,” dis­cussed lit­er­ary fic­tion in soci­ety,…
Alli­son Amend, Austin Rat­ner
April 8, 2013
Interview

Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist…Asaf Schurr

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterOver the past month, we’ve intro­duced you to to Stu­art Nadler, Shani Boian­jiu, Ben Lern­er, and Francesca Segal. Today we intro­duce you…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
April 8, 2013
Essay

A Love/​Hate Relationship

Ear­li­er this week, Boaz Yakin wrote about his father’s sto­ries grow­ing up in British Man­date Pales­tine and empa­thy and con­flict. He has been blog­ging here all week…
Boaz Yakin
April 7, 2013
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