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    Contemporary Jewish Life

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    Chil­dren’s
    Matzah Craze
    Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, Lauren Gallegos (illus.)
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    Seder in Motion: A Hag­gadah to Move Body and Soul
    Ron Isaacs, Leora Isaacs, Martin Wickstrom (illus.)
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    Out of the Nar­rows: The Artists’ Hag­gadah — A Visu­al Midrash
    Jewish Artists Collective Chicago
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    Poet­ry
    Mishkan HaSeder: A Passover Haggadah 
    Rabbi Hara Person, Jessica Greenbaum (editor)
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    Poet­ry = Life

    Lesléa New­man
    March 8, 2021
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    Chil­dren’s
    Benjy’s Blan­ket
    Miguel Gouveia, Raquel Catalina (illus.)
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    The Joy of Miss­ing Out

    Tra­cy Brown
    March 1, 2021
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    Chil­dren’s
    Sarah’s Solo
    Tracy Brown, Paula Wegman (illus.)
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Telling: How Judais­m’s Essen­tial Book Reveals the Mean­ing of Life
    Mark Ger­son
    Essay

    Pesach: The Most Under­rat­ed Holiday

    Mark Ger­son
    March 1, 2021
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    Her Hid­den Struggle

    Gabrielle Leon Spatt, The Blue Dove Foundation
    February 22, 2021
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    Sunday, February 28, 2021
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    Poetry

    Excerpt: Jew­ish Futurisms

    Rab­bi Joshua Bolton
    February 11, 2021
    Essay

    Jew­ish Sleep­away Camp Gave My Messy Human Body a Home

    Ariel­la Elovic
    February 10, 2021
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    It’s My Par­ty and I Don’t Want to Go
    Aman­da Panitch
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    ‘We Are All Already Per­fect’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Melis­sa Broder

    Bec­ca Kantor
    February 2, 2021
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