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Excerpt Excerpt — Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld March 10, 2020
Nonfiction Coming of Age in Jewish America: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted Patricia Keer Munro
Essay Everyone Wants to Be Invited Earlier this week, Christopher Noxon shared his journey from “doing Jew” to being Jewish. He is blogging here all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series on The… Christopher Noxon November 25, 2015
Essay A Southern Jewish Superhero Slash Coleman is the author of The Bohemian Love Diaries, the personal perspectives blogger for Psychology Today, and an advice columnist at howdoidate.com (Ask… Slash Coleman August 27, 2013
Interview Interview with Diane Heiman JBC’s Christine Maasdam interviews Diane Heiman, co-writer with Liz Suneby of It’s a…It’s a…It’s a Mitzvah and The Mitzvah Project Book (Jewish Lights… Christine Maasdam February 26, 2013
Nonfiction Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld
Nonfiction Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah: Planning the Perfect Day Amy Nebens; Ellen Silverman and David Lewis Sternfeld, illus.
Visual Arts Bar Mitzvah Disco: The Music May Have Stopped, But the Party’s Never Over Roger Bennett, Nick Kroll, Jules Shell
Nonfiction The Bar Mitzvah and The Beast: One Family’s Cross-Country Ride of Passage by Bike Matt Biers-Ariel
