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Essay Flashback: Miami Beach, 1972 Earlier this week, Thane Rosenbaum wrote about how E. L. Doctorow inspired his new novel How Sweet It Is! He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s… Thane Rosenbaum April 1, 2015
Essay On Documenting Jewish Fiction Writers & How It Inspired a New Book Thane Rosenbaum is the author of the critically acclaimed novels, The Stranger Within Sarah Stein, The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and the novel-in-stories,… Thane Rosenbaum March 30, 2015
Essay How to Cook Nuck a Whaatt? [INCLUDES RECIPE] Earlier this week, Katja Goldman, Judy Bernstein Bunzl, and Lisa Rotmil wrote about writing a cookbook for the JCC Manhattan and shared a recipe for lamb… Judy Bernstein Bunzl, Katja Goldman, Lisa Rotmil March 26, 2015
Essay Why Do We Publish Picture Books About the Holocaust for Young Children? by Marcia Weiss PosnerEditor’s Note: We are frequently asked by parents, teachers, and others a perplexing question: At which age and at which stage it is… Marcia Weiss Posner March 25, 2015
Essay On Writing a Cookbook for the JCC Manhattan [INCLUDES RECIPE] Katja Goldman, Judy Bernstein Bunzl, and Lisa Rotmil are the authors of the new cookbook The Community Table: Recipes and Stories from the Jewish Community Center… Judy Bernstein Bunzl, Katja Goldman, Lisa Rotmil March 24, 2015
Essay Communicating the Beauty Earlier this week, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall wrote about how on how pluralism strengthens Judaism and shared the backstory behind her newest book, The Myth of the… Roberta Rosenthal Kwall March 20, 2015