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Ritual & Practice

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Dic­tio­nary of Jewish
David Kil­imnick
Essay

The Cut

Ear­li­er this week, Eytan Bayme wrote about tast­ing Kornbluh’s track­le­ments for the first time and cel­e­brat­ing his third Christ­mas in Europe as an Amer­i­can Jew. Eytan…
Eytan Bayme
December 30, 2016
Essay

Korn­bluh’s Kosher Fish

Ear­li­er this week, Eytan Bayme wrote about cel­e­brat­ing his third Christ­mas in Europe as an Amer­i­can Jew. Eytan is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week…
Eytan Bayme
December 28, 2016
Essay

The Chup­pah: What’s Hap­pen­ing Underneath?

Rab­bi Lawrence Hajioff​’s new book, Will Jew Mar­ry Me? is a great selec­tion with the Jew­ish cel­e­bra­tion of Tu B’Av on the hori­zon. Rab­bi Hajioff is guest blog­ging…
Lawrence Hajioff
August 17, 2016
Essay

Would Tu B’Av Dat­ing Work Today?

Rab­bi Lawrence Hajioff​’s new book, Will Jew Mar­ry Me? is a great selec­tion with the Jew­ish cel­e­bra­tion of Tu B’Av on the hori­zon. Rab­bi Hajioff is guest blog­ging…
Lawrence Hajioff
August 15, 2016
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I Am Israeli: The Chil­dren Of Israel
Eva L. Weiss
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Non­fic­tion
Cul­ture, Cus­toms and Cel­e­bra­tions in Israel
Gil Zohar
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Chil­dren’s
Return­ing Home: Jour­neys To Israel
Elisa Silverman
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Non­fic­tion
Com­ing of Age in Jew­ish Amer­i­ca: Bar and Bat Mitz­vah Reinterpreted
Patricia Keer Munro
Essay

Can Prayer Heal the World?

Ear­li­er this week, Rab­bi Morde­cai Schreiber shared how writ­ing Why Peo­ple Pray changed his life. He is guest blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series…
Morde­cai Schreiber
June 2, 2016
Essay

How Writ­ing a Book about Why Peo­ple Pray Changed My Life

Between his trav­els around the world, Rab­bi Morde­cai Schreiber is set to pub­lish his lat­est book, Why Peo­ple Pray, lat­er this month. He is guest blog­ging here all week as…
Morde­cai Schreiber
May 31, 2016
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Jew­ish Text
The Koren Pirkei Avot
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Non­fic­tion
Why Peo­ple Pray
Morde­cai Schreiber
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Non­fic­tion
Sad Is Not Bad
Har­ri­et Vogel
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Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Tra­di­tion and the Non-Tra­di­tion­al Jew (The Ortho­dox Forum Series)
Jacob J. Schacter
Essay

It’s Hard­ly Peek­ing If There’s Noth­ing in the Way

With the release of his debut nov­el, Anna and the Swal­low Man, this week author and actor Gavriel Sav­it guest blogs for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil as part of the Vis­it­ing…
Gavriel Sav­it
January 26, 2016
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