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Cover of Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust
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Among the Reeds: The True Sto­ry of How a Fam­i­ly Sur­vived the Holocaust
Tam­my Bottner
Cover of Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World
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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
Cover of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
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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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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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More Love, Less Pan­ic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Par­ent­ing After We Adopt­ed Our Son from Ethiopia
Claude Knobler
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Dar­ing: My Passages
Gail Shee­hy
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Fic­tion
Hen­na House
Nomi Eve
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Fic­tion
Kin
Dror Burstein; Dalya Bilu, trans.
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Chil­dren’s
Rebec­ca­’s Jour­ney Home
Brynn Olenberg Sugarman; Michelle Shapiro, illus.
Cover of Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today's Families: Revised and Updated
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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
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