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Essay

The Untold His­to­ry of Adop­tion Before Roe

Gabrielle Glaser
October 24, 2022
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Fic­tion
Jacob and the Man­dolin Adventure
Anne Dublin
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Fic­tion
The Sev­enth Handmaiden
Judith Pransky
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Amer­i­can Baby: A Moth­er, a Child, and the Shad­ow His­to­ry of Adoption
Gabrielle Glaser
Essay

When Silence Speaks Volumes 

Mar­ra B. Gad
June 12, 2020
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The Col­or of Love: A Sto­ry of a Mixed Race Jew­ish Girl
Mar­ra B. Gad
Essay

‘If Not Now, When?’ Mar­ra B. Gad On Writ­ing Her Story

Mar­ra B. Gad
December 23, 2019
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Fic­tion
It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Oth­er Jew­ish Stories
Lau­ra Silverman
Kather­ine Locke
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Chil­dren’s
The Length of a String
Elis­sa Brent Weissman
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Among the Reeds: The True Sto­ry of How a Fam­i­ly Sur­vived the Holocaust
Tam­my Bottner
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Cast­ing Lots: Cre­at­ing a Fam­i­ly in a Beau­ti­ful, Bro­ken World
Susan Sil­ver­man
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Who Got an Amer­i­can Any Longer?

Excerpt from Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman.Maya had been ear­ly to pick up Max the day he didn’t come home with the school bus. Usu­al­ly she was still pow­er­ing up…
Boris Fish­man
March 3, 2016
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My Grand­fa­ther Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Dis­cov­ers Her Fam­i­ly’s Nazi Past
Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair; Carolin Sommer, trans.
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More Love, Less Pan­ic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Par­ent­ing After We Adopt­ed Our Son from Ethiopia
Claude Knobler
Essay

Read­ing Like a Sen­a­tor, Lov­ing Like a Grandparent

This week, Claude Kno­bler— the author of More Love, Less Pan­ic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Par­ent­ing After We Adopt­ed Our Son from Ethiopia blogs…
Claude Kno­bler
January 20, 2015
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Dar­ing: My Passages
Gail Shee­hy
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