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Essay Best Friends Lesléa Newman is the author of 60 books including A Letter to Harvey Milk, Nobody’s Mother, Hachiko Waits, Write from the Heart, The Boy Who Cried Fabulous, The Best… Lesléa Newman January 12, 2015
Essay The Little Shul Earlier this week, Ronna Wineberg wrote about Chanukah and shared a deleted scene from her first novel, On Bittersweet Place. She will be blogging here all week for… Ronna Wineberg December 23, 2014
Essay The Reason Jews Shouldn’t Celebrate Halloween Is Exactly Why We Should Posted by Nat BernsteinIt’s a question every Jewish American parent faces at the waning of October: Will you allow your children to trick-or-treat?The… Nat Bernstein October 31, 2014
Essay Yahrzeit Earlier this week, Jessica Lamb-Shapiro wrote about writing a book on self-help. The book, Promise Land: My Journey through America’s Self-Help Culture, is now… Jessica Lamb-Shapiro August 21, 2014
Essay What’s Your Book About? Jessica Lamb-Shapiro has written for the New York Times Magazine, Time, and The Believer. Her book, Promise Land: My Journey through America’s Self-Help Culture, is now… Jessica Lamb-Shapiro August 19, 2014
Essay The Mothers’ Kaddish Posted by Nat BernsteinWe are all still reeling from the past weeks of terror and grief over the murders of Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrah, three Jewish young… Nat Bernstein July 11, 2014
Essay The One Thing You Should Do the Day Before You Die Earlier this week, NY Times best-selling author Sara Davidson wrote about talking to your parents about death and about she came to write her memoir The December Project… Sara Davidson March 28, 2014
Essay How to Have “The Talk” Earlier this week, NY Times best-selling author Sara Davidson wrote about she came to write her memoir The December Project (HarperOne), which is based… Sara Davidson March 26, 2014
Nonfiction Where’s My Miracle? Exploring Jewish Traditions For Dealing with Tragedy Morey Schwartz
Nonfiction Parentless Parents: How the Loss of Our Mothers and Fathers Impacts the Way We Raise Our Children Allison Gilbert
Nonfiction May God Remember — Yizkor: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism (Prayers of Awe) Lawrence A. Hoffman
Essay Mourning the Loss of a Non-Jewish Parent Gayle Redlingshafer Berman is co-author, with her husband Harold, of Doublelife: One Family,Two Faiths and a Journey of Hope, the first true-life account of “an… Gayle Redlingshafer Berman July 16, 2013
Essay Joanna Hershon and the Memorial Joanna Hershon’s most recent novel, A Dual Inheritance, was published earlier this month by Ballantine Books. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Joanna Hershon May 20, 2013
