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Recommended Reading March 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: The UnAmericans (Molly Antopol) | Naomi: What’s Important is Feeling (Adam Wilson)Miri: A Bride For One Night (Ruth… JBC Staff March 13, 2014
Recommended Reading February 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: My Promised Land (Ari Shavit) | Naomi: All Russians Love Birch Trees (Olga Grjasnowa)Mimi: An American Bride in Kabul… JBC Staff February 18, 2014
Recommended Reading January 2014 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Suzanne: The Jew and the Pope (Sybil Terres Gilmar) | Carol: Unclean Lips (Josh Lambert)Miri: Joy Comes in the Morning (Jonathan… JBC Staff January 8, 2014
Recommended Reading JBC Bookshelf: Spring 2014 Jewish Book Preview Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterInspired by The Millions’ Great 2014 Book Preview, I thought I’d create a Jewish-slanted winter/spring 2014 book preview… Naomi Firestone-Teeter January 7, 2014
Recommended Reading Obscene Recommendations Earlier this week, Josh Lambert wrote about whether or not “shmuk” is a dirty word, how publications handle obscenities and how he came to write his newest… Josh Lambert December 20, 2013
Recommended Reading December 2013 Jewish Book Council Staff Picks What we’re reading this month:Naomi: S. (J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst) | Suzanne: And So It Was Written (Ellen Brazer)Nat: Totally Unofficial (Raphael Lemkin;… JBC Staff December 9, 2013