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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Fic­tion
    Siz­zle Reel
    Car­lyn Greenwald
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    Chil­dren’s
    Out and About: A Tale of Giving
    Liza Wiemer; Margeaux Lucas, illus.
    Interview

    Mon­ey, Moral­i­ty, and a ​‘Mis­trust of Lan­guage’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Andrew Lipstein

    Chloe Cheimets
    July 12, 2023
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    Fic­tion
    All-Night Phar­ma­cy
    Ruth Madievsky
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    Non­fic­tion
    Stand-Up Nation: Israeli Resilience in the Wake of Disaster
    Avi­va Klompas
    Essay

    Spend­ing a Fort­night in Jew Town, Kochi

    Shas­tri Akella
    July 10, 2023
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    Birchers: How the John Birch Soci­ety Rad­i­cal­ized the Amer­i­can Right
    Matthew Dallek
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    Golem Goes to Camp
    Todd Gutnick; Ruth Bennett, illus.
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    As I Said: A Dissent
    Abby Minor
    Essay

    On Writ­ing Jew­ish Protagonists

    Rachel Lynn Solomon
    June 30, 2023
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    Busi­ness or Pleasure
    Rachel Lynn Solomon
    Essay

    Shab­bat: A Jour­ney of Per­son­al and Glob­al Discovery

    War­ren Goldstein
    June 26, 2023
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    “Paper Brigade” and Pride

    Bec­ca Kantor
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    A Cas­tle in Brooklyn
    Shirley Rus­sak Wachtel
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    Fic­tion
    Poland, A Green Land
    Aharon Appelfeld; Stu­art Schoff­man, trans.
    Interview—From the Journal

    The Lan­guages of Belong­ing: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Ruth Behar and Mar­jorie Agosín 

    Ruth Behar, Mar­jorie Agosín
    June 19, 2023
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