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Recommended Reading

Nine Jewish Writers Share Their Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month

JBC Staff

March 13, 2023

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Take What You Need

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The Two Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor

Essay

Belonging: A Brief History of Jews, Catholics, and Basketball

David Hollander

March 13, 2023

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Künstlers in Paradise

Cathleen Schine

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The Purim Panic

Laura Gehl; Olga Ivanov and Aleksey Ivanov, illus.

Interview

Catskills, Compulsion, and Conventionality: A Conversation with Sara Lippmann

Avner Landes

February 27, 2023

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The Shortest Skirt in Shul

Essay

‘Stories Like Mine’: Aden Polydoros on Writing Fantasy

Aden Polydoros

February 20, 2023

Fiction—From the Journal

The Virgin Grandmother

Kate Schmier

February 15, 2023

Essay

Fictionalizing the Lower East Side: Assimilation and Opportunity in the Jewish Immigrant Experience

Daisy Alpert Florin

February 13, 2023

Fiction—From the Journal

Poland Itinerary, Class 3B

Leeor Ohayon

February 7, 2023

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De-Integrate!: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century

Max Czollek; Jon Cho-Polizzi, trans.

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My Last Innocent Year

Daisy Alpert Florin

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The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto

Excerpt

How I Learned to Embrace my Black and Jewish Heritage

Davon Loeb

January 24, 2023