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Excerpt A Poem: The Quantum Rabbi A poem from the recently published To Sing Away the Darkest Days: Poems Re-imagined from Yiddish Folksongs (Holland Park Press), a new poetry collection from… Norbert Hirschhorn August 28, 2013
Excerpt Excerpt Friday Today’s Excerpt Friday features Chapter 8 from Maintaining Recovery from Eating Disorders: Avoiding Relapse and Recovering Life (Naomi… Naomi Feigenbaum September 23, 2011
Excerpt Excerpt Friday (part B): The Hat Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn the spring issue of Jewish Book World, Deborah Schoeneman offered the following review of Babette Hughes’s The… Babette Hughes May 6, 2011
Excerpt Excerpt Friday (part A): Folktales of the Jews Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJBC is very excited about the release of the newest volume in the Folktales of the Jews series (edited with commentary by Dan Ben-Amos),… Flora Cohen May 6, 2011
Excerpt Excerpt from Yael Hedaya’s Eden Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe fall issue of Zeek is now available! The newest issue features fiction from Yael Goldstein Love. Also, check out an… JBC Staff October 19, 2010
Excerpt Steve Stern’s The Frozen Rabbi Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThis is week one of Tablet’s serialization of novelist Steve Stern’s forthcoming The Frozen Rabbi (Algonquin Books). Read… JBC Staff March 1, 2010