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Nonfiction The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf, eds.
Children’s Women Who Broke The Rules: Judy Blume: Are You There Reader? It’s Me, Judy! Kathleen Krull; David Leonard, illus.
Nonfiction I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark Debbie Levy; Elizabeth Baddeley, illus.
Nonfiction “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs Tahneer Oksman
Essay My Very Unorthodox Kabbalist Recently named Opinion Editor at the Forward, Sigal Samuel is the author of The Mystics of Mile End, a novel bending standard concepts of community, gender, and… Sigal Samuel December 21, 2015
Interview Interview: Geraldine Brooks with Ranen Omer-ShermanIn her latest book, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks sets herself the daunting challenge of portraying one of the most heroic yet morally… Ranen Omer-Sherman November 27, 2015