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Poetry The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season Marcia Falk
Essay Make Passover Cooking a Family Affair Earlier this week, Tamar Ansh shared a recipe for Moroccan-Style Gefilte Fish for Passover. Her newest book, Let My Children Cook!, is now available. She has been… Tamar Ansh April 10, 2014
Jewish Text The New Union Haggadah, Revised Edition Rabbi Howard A. Berman and Rabbi Benjamin Zeidman
Jewish Text Sixty-Minute Seder: Preserving the Essence of the Passover Haggadah Cass (Yickezkale) and Nellie (Nechama) Foster
Essay Remembering Hebrew School in Iranian Prison Earlier this week, Joshua Fattal wrote about being a Jew celebrating Christmas in Iranian prison. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Joshua Fattal March 19, 2014
Essay Searching for My People Ellen Litman is the author of Mannequin Girl: A Novel and the story collection The Last Chicken in America, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First… Ellen Litman March 18, 2014
Essay Jews Don’t Celebrate Christmas (Except in Prison in the Islam Republic of Iran) Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer, and Sarah Shourd were imprisoned in Iran in 2009. Shourd was released one year later and worked to secure Bauer and Fattal’s return in 2011. Since… Joshua Fattal March 17, 2014
