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    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    I Won’t Water Down Who I Am: On the Sug­ges­tion to Remove My Book Cover’s Star of David

    Lin­da Mar­golin Royal
    March 10, 2025
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    Poet­ry
    Heim­lich Unheim­lich: a poet­ry and art collaboration
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    This Is Not a Cholent
    Sarah Sassoon; Viviana Garofoli, illus.
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    A Let­ter from a Stranger Revealed a Fam­i­ly Secret Kept from Me

    Karen Kirsten
    July 22, 2024
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Ghost Tattoo
    Tony Bernard
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    Abom­i­na­tion
    Ash­ley Goldberg
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    The World of Aus­tralian Jew­ish Literature

    Goldie Gold­bloom
    April 11, 2022
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    Good Neigh­bors, Bad Times Revis­it­ed: New Echoes of My Father’s Ger­man Village
    Mimi Schwartz
    Excerpt

    Excerpt: Now for Some­thing Sweet

    Mon­day Morn­ing Cook­ing Club
    December 14, 2020
    Essay

    The Speed of Thought: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Maria Tumarkin

    Dalia Wolf­son
    December 9, 2019
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    Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Bram Presser

    JBC Staff
    February 7, 2019
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    Danc­ing in the Dark
    Robyn Bavati
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    Beach Mem­o­ries

    Ear­li­er this week, Lily Brett wrote about her love for pens and pen­cils and why she did­n’t become a lawyer. Her newest book, Lola Ben­sky:…
    Lily Brett
    October 24, 2013
    Essay

    One Egg Is A Fortune

    Judy Kem­pler and Pni­na Jacob­son​’s cook­book One Egg Is A For­tune is now avail­able. They will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
    Judy Kem­pler, Pni­na Jacobson
    June 12, 2012
    Essay

    The Sev­en Roads to Hell (or: Dante’s Infer­no adapt­ed for Chas­sidic Jews)

    Goldie Gold­bloom is the author of Toads’ Muse­um of Freaks and Won­ders, a nov­el about Ital­ian pris­on­ers of war in Aus­tralia dur­ing World War II. She will be…
    Goldie Gold­bloom
    March 8, 2010

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