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Essay Correcting the Injustice of Forgetting: The Black Angelenos of Sugar Hill Kyra Davis Lurie June 9, 2025
Recommended Reading Biblical Heroines: Eight Novels That Celebrate Women Who Stand for Justice Jacqueline Friedland May 23, 2025
Children’s Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library Katherine Paterson; Sally Deng, illus.
Nonfiction Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible Sara Lippmann Seth Rogoff
Children’s Abzuglutely!: Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug Sarah Aronson; Andrea D'Aquino, illus.
Children’s Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women Julie Silverstein Tami Schlossberg Pruwer
Children’s More than Enough: Inspired by Maimonides’s Golden Ladder of Giving Richard Michelson; Joe Cepeda, illus.
Nonfiction The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century Dagmar Herzog
Visual Arts Jewish Voices: Inspiring & Empowering Quotes from Global Thought Leaders Dana Rubin