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    Falik and His House
    Jacob Dinezon, Mindy Liberman (Translator)
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    For­get Prayers, Bring Cake: A Sin­gle Wom­an’s Guide to Grieving
    Meris­sa Nathan Gerson
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    Kvetch­ers in the Rye

    Ken Krim­stein
    July 19, 2021
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Don­key and the Garden
    Devora Busheri, Menahem Halberstadt (Illustrator)
    Essay

    A Boy Named Jew

    Yehu­di Mercado
    July 6, 2021
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    Hill of Beans: A Nov­el of War and Celluloid
    Leslie Epstein
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    Last Sum­mer at the Gold­en Hotel
    Elyssa Fried­land
    Essay

    It’s ​‘Schitt’s Creek,’ But Even Jew­ier: Wel­come to ​‘The Gold­en Hotel’

    Elyssa Fried­land
    May 13, 2021
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    I Want to Be Where the Nor­mal Peo­ple Are
    Rachel Bloom
    Interview

    The Infi­nite Opti­mist: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Yaniv Iczkovits

    Bram Press­er
    March 17, 2021
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    The Hag­gadah About Noth­ing: The (Unof­fi­cial) Sein­feld Haggadah
    Rabbi Sam Reinstein
    Essay

    Salinger and the Art of ​“Jew­ish Zen”

    Jerome Charyn
    January 4, 2021
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    Going Rogue (at Hebrew School)
    Casey Bre­ton
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    The Lost Shtetl
    Max Gross
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    Such a Library: A Yid­dish Folk­tale Re-Imagined
    Jill Ross Nadler
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    All the World’s a Stage Fright: Mis­ad­ven­tures of a Clan­des­tine Critic
    Bob Abel­man
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