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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Zinsky the Obscure Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterOut this week: Ilan Mochari’s debut novel Zinsky the Obscure. Read more about Ilan Mochari here and find the book’s official website… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 17, 2013
Recommended Reading Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut Reading List Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterYom Hazikaron, Israel’s official Memorial Day, is right around the corner. The holiday, followed by Yom Ha’atzmaut (“Independence… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 11, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Book of Schmaltz Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterMichael Ruhlman’s The Book of Schmaltz: Love Song of a Forgotten Fat, which is currently available for iPads, will be published as an… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 9, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: A Guide to Being Born Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJBC Network author Ramona Ausubel, whose debut novel No One is Here Except All of Us was one of my favorite book’s of 2012, has a new… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 4, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Kosher Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterA new title pubbing from Harvard University Press in May, Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food (Timothy D.… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 21, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Jacob’s Folly Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLast week, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Rebecca Miller’s new novel Jacob’s Folly, “a rollicking, ingenious, saucy book,… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 13, 2013