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Cover of Getting Wiser: 101 Essential Life Lessons and Inspiring Stories

Getting Wiser: 101 Essential Life Lessons and Inspiring Stories

Michael S. Lewis

Cover of Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan that Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich

Overture of Hope: Two Sisters’ Daring Plan that Saved Opera’s Jewish Stars from the Third Reich

Cover of Reach: Hard Lessons and Learned Truths from a Lifetime in Television

Reach: Hard Lessons and Learned Truths from a Lifetime in Television

Cover of Coco At The Ritz

Coco At The Ritz

Gioia Diliberto

Cover of We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism

We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism

Shirley Idelson

Excerpt

Excerpt: My Father’s Drawing

Mindy Weisel

August 23, 2021

Cover of Lies That Matter: A Federal Prosecutor and Child of Holocaust Survivors, Tasked with Stripping US Citizenship from Aged Nazi Collaborators, Finds Himself Caught in the Middle

Lies That Matter: A Federal Prosecutor and Child of Holocaust Survivors, Tasked with Stripping US Citizenship from Aged Nazi Collaborators, Finds Himself Caught in the Middle

Cover of To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah

To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah

Cover of Nathan's Song

Nathan’s Song

Leda Schubert, Maya Ish-Shalom (Illustrator)

Essay

‘Invisible Years’: Piecing Together My Family’s Story of Survival

Daphne Geismar

August 2, 2021

Cover of Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World

Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World

Dean Robbins, Mike Dutton (Illustrator)

Interview

‘Exiled in Paradise’: A Conversation between Alexis Landau and Donna Rifkind

Alexis Landau, Donna Rifkind

July 21, 2021

Cover of Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream

Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream

Michael Shnayerson

Cover of Mike Nichols: A Life

Mike Nichols: A Life

Essay

America’s First Jewish Astronaut

Kevin Cook

June 28, 2021

Cover of From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

June Cummins, Alexandra Dunietz