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    Contemporary Jewish Life

    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
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    Cul­ture War­lords: My Jour­ney Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
    Talia Lavin
    Fiction

    What We Talk About When We Talk About the Golem

    Moriel Roth­man-Zech­er
    March 22, 2021
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    Jew­ish Asian Amer­i­can Stories

    Bec­ca Kantor
    March 19, 2021
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    The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Phil­an­thropic Com­plex: The His­to­ry of a Multi­bil­lion-Dol­lar Institution
    Lila Cor­win Berman
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    Chil­dren’s
    Matzah Craze
    Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, Lauren Gallegos (illus.)
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    Visu­al Arts
    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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    Jew­ish Text
    Seder in Motion: A Hag­gadah to Move Body and Soul
    Ron Isaacs, Leora Isaacs, Martin Wickstrom (illus.)
    Essay

    Poet­ry = Life

    Lesléa New­man
    March 8, 2021
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