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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Vis­it­ing Poland: Writ­ing about the Holocaust

    Lau­ren Grodstein
    December 5, 2023
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    Miryam’s Dance
    Kerry Olitzky and Rachel Stock Spilker; John Baptist Tumuhaise, illus.
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    A Wild, Wild Hanukkah
    Jo Gershman and Bob Strauss; Jo Gershman, illus.
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    The Mex­i­can Dreidel
    Linda Elovitz Marshall and Ilan Stavans; Maria Mola, illus.
    Interview—From the Journal

    ‘To Cel­e­brate Non­con­for­mi­ty’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with David Adj­mi and Jack Hazan

    Michael Harari
    November 27, 2023
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    The Dubi­ous Pranks of Shaindy Goodman
    Mari Lowe
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    By the Rivers of Babylon
    Mary Glick­man
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    Lisa Gor­nick
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    Our Twen­ty-First Cen­tu­ry Drey­fus Affair

    Daniel H. Turtel
    November 13, 2023
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    The Witch of Woodland
    Lau­rel Snyder
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    Who Are the Jews―And Who Can We Become?
    Don­niel Hartman
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    JBC Staff
    November 6, 2023
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    Writ­ing the Jew­ish Body

    Jen­nifer Fliss
    October 30, 2023
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    Still Beni: The Life of Jane Bre­skin Zalben’s Icon­ic Bear

    Emi­ly Schneider
    October 23, 2023
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    Streisand and Sto­ries: Writ­ing with Music

    Rochelle B. Weinstein
    October 23, 2023
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