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Essay Diana Bletter’s Top 11 Jewish Quotes for Writers Earlier this week, Diana Bletter wrote about being not just a writer or a Jewish writer, but a Jewish woman writer. Her novel A Remarkable Kindness is… Diana Bletter August 26, 2015
Essay A Scribe Among Scribes Diana Bletter is the author of A Remarkable Kindness and lives in Israel. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe series.I was… Diana Bletter August 24, 2015
Essay Of Lutis and Looters: History as the Sister of Fiction Earlier this week, Parnaz Foroutan wrote about her childhood determination to learn English after seeing a girl who looked just like her on the cover of Anne… Parnaz Foroutan August 19, 2015
Essay In Search of Theological Modesty by William Liss-LevinsonI wrote In Search of Theological Modesty: Biblical Lessons to offer some perspectives that may enable readers to re-conceptualize… William Liss-Levinson August 18, 2015
Essay Soon, I’ll Know All the Words They Know Parnaz Foroutan is the author of The Girl from the Garden, a novel of the Persian Jewish community in Los Angeles and its origins in Iran. She will be blogging… Parnaz Foroutan August 17, 2015
Essay “Is That You on the Book Cover?” Sande Boritz Berger is the author of The Sweetness, a novel on its second tour through the JBC Network.“So,” readers ask, “is that you on the book cover?”The… Sande Boritz Berger August 13, 2015
