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JBC Staff Articles Interviews Recommended Reading June 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Nat: Night in Shanghai (Nicole Mones) | Naomi: J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (Thomas Beller)Carol: Becoming Frum (Sarah Bunin Benor) |… JBC Staff June 16, 2014 Recommended Reading May 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Nat: The Confabulist (Steven Galloway) | Naomi: American Innovations (Rivka Galchen)Carolyn: Love & Treasure (Ayelet… JBC Staff May 12, 2014 Recommended Reading JBC Bookshelf: Summer 2014 Jewish Book Preview Now that almost all of the books from our spring preview are available at your local bookstore, we’re picking up where the last JBC Bookshelf left off with a few… JBC Staff May 1, 2014 Recommended Reading April 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: The Harem Midwife (Roberta Rich) | Naomi: A Bintel Brief (Liana Finck)Miri: The Inn at Lake Devine (Elinor Lipman) | Nat:… JBC Staff April 10, 2014 Recommended Reading March 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: The UnAmericans (Molly Antopol) | Naomi: What’s Important is Feeling (Adam Wilson)Miri: A Bride For One Night (Ruth… JBC Staff March 13, 2014 Interview Interview: Leah Vincent In partnership with JewSchool, JBC sat down with Leah Vincent to discuss her recently published memoir, Cut Me Loose: Sin & Salvation After My Ultra Orthodox… JBC Staff February 25, 2014 Recommended Reading February 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: My Promised Land (Ari Shavit) | Naomi: All Russians Love Birch Trees (Olga Grjasnowa)Mimi: An American Bride in Kabul… JBC Staff February 18, 2014 Recommended Reading January 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: The Jew and the Pope (Sybil Terres Gilmar) | Carol: Unclean Lips (Josh Lambert)Miri: Joy Comes in the Morning (Jonathan… JBC Staff January 8, 2014 Recommended Reading December 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Naomi: S. (J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst) | Suzanne: And So It Was Written (Ellen Brazer)Nat: Totally Unofficial (Raphael Lemkin;… JBC Staff December 9, 2013 Recommended Reading November 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: The Missing File (D. A. Mishani) | Miri: Beautiful Souls (Eyal Press)Nat: The Power of Light (Isaac Bashevis Singer) |… JBC Staff November 12, 2013 Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Snicket Read all of the posts in our Eight Nights of Stories series here.The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story by Lemony Snicket; Lisa Brown, illus.On… JBC Staff November 11, 2013 Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Stories; Three Nights of Kafka We’re leaving you with three nights’ worth of reading in one book for the weekend, but don’t worry: Eight Nights of Stories continues next week!What’s this all about? Read… JBC Staff November 8, 2013 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 8 Next page ›› News 2019 National Jewish Book Award Auction February 19, 2020
Recommended Reading June 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Nat: Night in Shanghai (Nicole Mones) | Naomi: J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist (Thomas Beller)Carol: Becoming Frum (Sarah Bunin Benor) |… JBC Staff June 16, 2014
Recommended Reading May 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Nat: The Confabulist (Steven Galloway) | Naomi: American Innovations (Rivka Galchen)Carolyn: Love & Treasure (Ayelet… JBC Staff May 12, 2014
Recommended Reading JBC Bookshelf: Summer 2014 Jewish Book Preview Now that almost all of the books from our spring preview are available at your local bookstore, we’re picking up where the last JBC Bookshelf left off with a few… JBC Staff May 1, 2014
Recommended Reading April 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: The Harem Midwife (Roberta Rich) | Naomi: A Bintel Brief (Liana Finck)Miri: The Inn at Lake Devine (Elinor Lipman) | Nat:… JBC Staff April 10, 2014
Recommended Reading March 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: The UnAmericans (Molly Antopol) | Naomi: What’s Important is Feeling (Adam Wilson)Miri: A Bride For One Night (Ruth… JBC Staff March 13, 2014
Interview Interview: Leah Vincent In partnership with JewSchool, JBC sat down with Leah Vincent to discuss her recently published memoir, Cut Me Loose: Sin & Salvation After My Ultra Orthodox… JBC Staff February 25, 2014
Recommended Reading February 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: My Promised Land (Ari Shavit) | Naomi: All Russians Love Birch Trees (Olga Grjasnowa)Mimi: An American Bride in Kabul… JBC Staff February 18, 2014
Recommended Reading January 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: The Jew and the Pope (Sybil Terres Gilmar) | Carol: Unclean Lips (Josh Lambert)Miri: Joy Comes in the Morning (Jonathan… JBC Staff January 8, 2014
Recommended Reading December 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Naomi: S. (J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst) | Suzanne: And So It Was Written (Ellen Brazer)Nat: Totally Unofficial (Raphael Lemkin;… JBC Staff December 9, 2013
Recommended Reading November 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Joyce: The Missing File (D. A. Mishani) | Miri: Beautiful Souls (Eyal Press)Nat: The Power of Light (Isaac Bashevis Singer) |… JBC Staff November 12, 2013
Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Snicket Read all of the posts in our Eight Nights of Stories series here.The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story by Lemony Snicket; Lisa Brown, illus.On… JBC Staff November 11, 2013
Recommended Reading Eight Nights of Stories; Three Nights of Kafka We’re leaving you with three nights’ worth of reading in one book for the weekend, but don’t worry: Eight Nights of Stories continues next week!What’s this all about? Read… JBC Staff November 8, 2013