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The Face Tells the Secret

Excerpt

Excerpt: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb

October 7, 2019

Essay

Losing Our Religion: Finding Kinship with Peggy Guggenheim

Courtney Maum

October 7, 2019

Essay

Letters at the Narrow Waist of the World

Marlena Maduro Baraf

September 16, 2019

‘Sacred Stories as Metaphor’: A Modern Retelling of Biblical Stories

Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

August 19, 2019

The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters

Interview

Rediscovering Bette Howland: Brigid Hughes and Jacob Howland in Conversation

Brigid Hughes, Jacob Howland

July 1, 2019

Interview

“Moments Like That”: A Conversation with Author and Illustrator Jane Breskin Zalben

Emily Schneider

June 24, 2019

Essay

Marilyn Sachs, Forgotten Pioneer in Children’s Literature

At a time when children’s literature was filled with picture-perfect families, Marilyn Sachs painted a darker, richer reality.

Emily Schneider

June 3, 2019

Motherhood: A Novel

If You Could See Me: Life, Motherhood, and the Pursuit of Sanity

Essay

Learning from Mothering

Marjorie Lehman

March 13, 2018

Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination

Jane L. Kanarek, Marjorie Lehman,‎ Simon J Bronner, eds.

Video

JBC 30 Days, 30 Authors: Marjorie Ingall

Marjorie Ingall

December 18, 2016

Essay

Talking to the Dead: The Eternal Jewish Mother

Leah Kaminsky is the author of the novel The Waiting Room. She will be guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series here on…

Leah Kaminsky

November 7, 2016

Sh*tty Mom for All Seasons

Alicia Ybarbo, Mary Ann Zoellner