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News Reading the Talmud on the B Train Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times published an interesting article yesterday by Alexis Mainland on reading while traveling on the NYC subway… JBC Staff September 4, 2009
News Readers Dissect Tony Horwitz’s review of Israel is Real Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterSteve Coates of the NY Times Paper Cuts Blog shares readers’ letters in response to Tony Horwitz’s review of Israel Is… JBC Staff September 2, 2009
News Holocaust Novel Coming Soon from Author of Life of Pie Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLife of Pi author Yann Martel just sold the rights to his third book to Spiegel & Grau. The new book is an allegory about the… JBC Staff July 20, 2009
News MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book Council Present: Author Blog Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJewish literature is deep into a renaissance. Jewish books and Jewish authors are no longer ethnic tokens on a larger… Naomi Firestone-Teeter July 14, 2009
News Rather Strange…But We Thought We’d Share Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterPhilip Roth laugh sample on a dance track? Yep, it exists. Read more here. JBC Staff June 25, 2009
News More for your 2010 (and 2011) Reading List! Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWe just got wind (via Publisher’s Weekly on Twitter (@PublishersWkly)) that we can look forward to new work from Jonathan Safran… JBC Staff June 19, 2009
