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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Beep Beep Bubbie
    Bonnie Sherr Klein, Elisabeth Eudes-Pascal (illustrator)
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    Chil­dren’s
    Reeni’s Turn
    Carol Coven Grannick
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    ‘It’s a Sto­ry First’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Amy Hest

    Emi­ly Schneider
    April 12, 2021
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    The Boy Who Thought Out­side the Box: The Sto­ry of Video Game Inven­tor Ralph Baer
    Marcie Wessels, Beatriz Castro (illustrator)
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Rainy Day Story
    Ruth Calderon, Noa Kelner (illustrator)
    Poetry

    Meet Me at the Well

    Jane Yolen
    April 2, 2021
    Essay

    Kad­dish for Covid Times

    Nao­mi L. Baum
    March 29, 2021
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    Visu­al Arts
    Meet­ing Place
    Anat Propper Goldenberg
    Essay

    Over Time

    Sarah Blake
    March 25, 2021
    Fiction

    The Golem Sonnets

    M. Pin­sky-Appel­baum
    March 25, 2021
    Fiction

    Episode 46: Red Pilling ​“the Golem”

    Marky Mil­lor
    March 24, 2021
    Fiction

    Inter­view with the Golem

    Matthew L. Cohn
    March 23, 2021
    Fiction

    What We Talk About When We Talk About the Golem

    Moriel Roth­man-Zech­er
    March 22, 2021
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    Cul­ture War­lords: My Jour­ney Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
    Talia Lavin
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