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Essay The Truth About Motherhood Earlier this week, Stefanie Pervos Bregman, the editor of Living Jewishly, wrote about engaging 20- and 30- somethings in the Jewish world and Rabbi Jason Miller… Rivka Nehorai October 18, 2012
Essay October Mourning and Tikkun Olam Lesléa Newman is the author of 60 books including her most recent book, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard. She is blogging here today for Jewish Book… Lesléa Newman October 3, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Approaching You in English Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterApproaching You in English, the first book to appear in English by noted Israeli poet Admiel Kosman, was published last year by… Naomi Firestone-Teeter September 5, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: In Beauty Bright Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNational Jewish Book Award Winner Gerald Stern’s latest collection of poetry will be published next month by W. W. Norton: … Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 9, 2012
Recommended Reading Love & Death: Greatest Hits Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLove & Death: Greatest Hits, which was published by Tres Chicas Books in 2011, is a collaboration between… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 8, 2012
Nonfiction Explaining Life: The Wisdom of Modern Jewish Poetry, 1960 – 2010 Eleanor Ehrenkranz
Nonfiction Portraits in Literature: The Jews of Poland, An Anthology Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi, ed. and trans.
Nonfiction Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry Anne Lapidus Lerner
