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Essay Abortion, Birth Control, and the Complexity of Halacha (Jewish Law) Earlier this week, Melissa R. Klapper wrote about 5 American Jewish women you’ve (probably) never heard of. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Melissa R. Klapper July 17, 2013
Essay Top 5 American Jewish Women Most People Have Never Heard Of Melissa R. Klapper is a professor of history at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Her newest book, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace American Jewish… Melissa R. Klapper July 15, 2013
Nonfiction Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890 – 1940 Melissa R. Klapper
Essay Making the Invisible Visible: The Bildungsroman and the Jewish Woman Janice Weizman was born in Toronto, and moved to Israel at the age of nineteen. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Bar-Ilan University, where… Janice Weizman June 3, 2013
Nonfiction The Price of Truth: A True Story of Child Sexual Abuse in the Orthodox Jewish World — and One Girl’s Courage to Survive and Heal Genendy Radoff
Essay Rebecca Miller on Gluckel of Hameln This week on the Visiting Scribe, Rebecca Miller will be sharing texts that shed light on Jewish life in eighteenth-century France, the setting of her new novel,… Rebecca Miller May 13, 2013
