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    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    Unearthing the Unspo­ken: Jew­ish Writ­ers Break­ing the Silence

    Vale­ria Sol Groisman
    July 7, 2025
    News

    Writer’s Res­i­den­cy Con­test with The Bet­sy Writ­ers Room

    JBC Staff
    June 5, 2025
    Essay

    How to Write Truths: Between Poet­ry and Journalism

    Jo-Ann Mort
    June 2, 2025
    Interview

    ‘The Spir­it of Rad­i­cal­ism’: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Sara Lipp­mann and Seth Rogoff

    Simona Zaret­sky
    May 26, 2025
    Recommended Reading

    Book­Watch with the Pres­i­dent and Pub­lish­er of Behrman House

    David Behrman
    April 28, 2025
    Essay

    Mag­ic, Myth, and May­hem: Writ­ing a Jew­ish Com­ic for Our Times

    The Berkowitz Bros
    April 21, 2025
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    Non­fic­tion
    A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
    Robert Hilburn
    Essay

    Let­ters from My Mother

    Diane Mehta
    March 10, 2025
    Essay

    Laugh­ter: The Jew­ish Peo­ple’s Sur­vival Tool

    Rob Kut­ner
    March 10, 2025
    Interview

    Unasked Ques­tions: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Mikołaj Gryn­berg and his Eng­lish trans­la­tor, Sean Gasper Bye

    Madeleine Wul­fahrt
    January 13, 2025
    Essay

    Writ­ing in Wartime

    Jonathan Dun­sky
    November 4, 2024
    Essay—From the Journal

    Writ­ing Styles, Think­ing Styles: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Moriel Roth­man-Zech­er, Dani Shapiro, Alle­gra Good­man, Fran­cis­co Gold­man, Emi­ly Bowen Cohen, Chloe Ben­jamin, Max Gross, and Iddo Gefen

    Bec­ca Kantor
    November 1, 2024
    Essay

    Book­Watch with Zib­by Owens — Author, Pod­cast­er, and CEO of Zib­by’s Books

    Zib­by Owens
    September 30, 2024
    Interview—From the Journal

    Anne Frank Before the Diary: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Alice Hoffman

    Simona Zaret­sky
    September 16, 2024
    Interview

    Dis­rup­tion and Delib­er­a­tion: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Ben­jamin Resnick

    Jaime Hern­don
    September 2, 2024
    Interview

    From Gen­er­a­tion to Gen­er­a­tion, On a Char­i­ot of Fire: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Siona Ben­jamin and Eri­ca Lyons

    Isado­ra Kianovsky 
    September 2, 2024
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