adoption | Jewish Book Council

Essay

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

Marra B. Gad

December 23, 2019

It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories

Laura Silverman

Katherine Locke

The Length of a String

Elissa Brent Weissman

Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust

Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World

Susan Silverman

Excerpt

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

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past

Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair; Carolin Sommer, trans.

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

More Love, Less Panic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia

Daring: My Passages

Henna House

Kin

Dror Burstein; Dalya Bilu, trans.

The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed Race Jewish Girl

Rebecca’s Journey Home

Brynn Olenberg Sugarman; Michelle Shapiro, illus.

Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today’s Families: Revised and Updated

Anita Diamant with Howard Cooper

Essay

Raising an Ethiopian Jewish Child in Georgia

Melissa Fay Greene is the author of No Biking in the House Without a Helmet. She will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book…

Melissa Fay Greene

August 1, 2011