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Recommended Reading Dorit Sasson’s Top 4 Memorable Memoirs Earlier this week, Dorit Sasson described the self-imposed silence she learned to break in writing her memoir Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service in the Israel… Dorit Sasson June 22, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This Posted by Nat BernsteinIt took opposite journeys for a mother and daughter to each find themselves at the start of their adult lives: one needed to leave France to… Nat Bernstein June 21, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Hot Dog Taste Test If you own a Netflix account — or a subscription to Lucky Peach, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, or McSweeney’s—you’ve seen Lisa Hanawalt’s work. This week, the… JBC Staff June 15, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Reason for Flowers Posted by Nat BernsteinOne of my very favorite Jewish holiday traditions is coming up: beflowering one’s home for Shavuot! Owing to a midrash that Mount Sinai… Nat Bernstein June 7, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Barbra Streisand’s Jewish Lives Biography Posted by Nat BernsteinWhat’s a girl to do at 74 years old with a No. 1 selling album for every decade since 1964 to her name?National treasure… Nat Bernstein May 17, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Here I Am Posted by Nat BernsteinIt’s been over a decade since Jonathan Safran Foer’s last novel—Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close—was published. But as fans of Foer’s… Nat Bernstein May 10, 2016
