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Recommended Reading Summer 2016 Book Releases Summer is officially here, and it’s time to plan your reading lists for the long daylight hours!Still need to catch up on all those books you meant to read last… JBC Staff June 30, 2016
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: They Were Like Family to Me Posted by Nat BernsteinIf you’re surprised to discover that Helen Maryles Shankman already has another title due out this October, look closer:For reasons the author… Nat Bernstein June 28, 2016
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
