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Essay Alluding to the Torah Daniel Torday’s novella The Sensualist won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in Outstanding Debut Fiction. His debut novel, The Last Flight of Poxl West, was… Daniel Torday May 18, 2015
Excerpt A Glimpse Into the Editing Process: What Didn’t Make it Into the Book Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms. magazine, is the author of eleven books, most recently the just-published Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate.… Letty Cottin Pogrebin May 18, 2015
Essay Tackling the “Sticky” Torah Portions in Limerick Form Earlier this week, Joe Black wrote about how he came to write a book of limericks for every Torah portion. His newest book, There Once Was a Man From Canaan: The… Joe Black May 14, 2015
Essay “Torah Limericks?” “Really?” “Why?” Joe Black serves as Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Denver, CO. He also is an author of children’s books and a guitarist/singer-songwriter of original Jewish… Joe Black May 12, 2015
Essay What the Lifetime Adaptation of Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent Missed Earlier this week, Michal Lemberger wrote about turning King David into a villain and Lot’s wife and the other nameless women of the Bible. She is the author of the… Michal Lemberger April 24, 2015
Essay How Can You Make King David into a Villain? Earlier this week, Michal Lemberger wrote about Lot’s wife and the other nameless women of the Bible. She is the author of the recently published book After Abel and… Michal Lemberger April 22, 2015
Essay Looking Back at Lot’s Wife Michal Lemberger is the author of the book After Abel and Other Stories. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe series.Lot’s Wife.… Michal Lemberger April 20, 2015
Nonfiction Masorah and Text Criticism in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Moshe Ibn Zabara and Menahem De Lonzano Jordan S. Penkower
Jewish Text The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee David Stern, Christoph Markschies, Sarit Shavlen-Eyni, eds.
Nonfiction Daily Wisdom: Inspiring Insights on the Torah Portion from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky
Poetry Cain and Maples: The Villain’s Villanelle by Dan OrnsteinLaunching on Tu B’shvat of 5775, the Jewish Book Council is delighted to publish original works of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction in… Dan Ornstein February 4, 2015
Nonfiction The Aura of Torah: A Kabbalistic-Hasidic Commentary to the Weekly Readings Rabbi Larry Tabick
