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Contemporary Jewish Life

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The Best Minds: A Sto­ry of Friend­ship, Mad­ness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen
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Chil­dren’s
The Blue Glass Heart
Yona Zeldis McDonough; Chiara Fedele, illus.
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A Stur­dy Yes of a Peo­ple: Select­ed Writings
Joan Nes­tle
Essay

You Can’t Be a Jew(ish Poet) Alone: A Guide to Find­ing Community

David Eben­bach
April 10, 2023
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Taste & See: Psy­che­del­ic Pesach Zine
Madison Margolin, Eden Pearlstein, and Ami Silver; Jessica Tamar Deutsch, illus.
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Poet­ry
Long­ing: Poems of a Life
Mer­le Feld
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Cook­book
Total­ly Kosher: Tra­di­tion with a Twist! 150+ Recipes for the Hol­i­days and Every Day: A Cookbook 
Chanie Apfel­baum
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Poet­ry
Between Par­adise & Earth: Eve Poems
Nomi Stone and Luke Hankins, eds.
Essay

Hate, Lies, and Scape­goat­ing: Religi­cide Against Jews and Oth­er Minorities

Geor­gette Bennett, Jer­ry White
April 3, 2023
Essay

My Iraqi Jew­ish Grandmother’s Hands

Sarah Sas­soon
March 30, 2023
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Shab­bos: A Day to Cre­ate Your­self: Build­ing Char­ac­ter, Shap­ing Per­spec­tives, and Find­ing Hap­pi­ness through­out Shabbat
War­ren Goldstein
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The Wan­der­ing Womb: Essays in Search of Home
S. L. Wisenberg
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Hap­pi­ly: A Per­son­al His­to­ry-with Fairy Tales
Sab­ri­na Orah Mark
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Chil­dren’s
Grape, Again!
Gabriel Arquile­vich
Poetry—From the Journal

The Immi­nent Decline of Every­thing We’ve Under­stood to Be What Gov­erns Our Priv­i­leged Dai­ly Lives

Daniel Kha­lastchi
March 15, 2023
Essay

Sex and the Sur­vivor: Elie Wiesel’s ​“Day” and a Con­tem­po­rary Woman Writer

Court­ney Sender
March 15, 2023
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