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Nonfiction I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark Debbie Levy; Elizabeth Baddeley, illus.
Nonfiction “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs Tahneer Oksman
Essay My Very Unorthodox Kabbalist Recently named Opinion Editor at the Forward, Sigal Samuel is the author of The Mystics of Mile End, a novel bending standard concepts of community, gender, and… Sigal Samuel December 21, 2015
Interview Interview: Geraldine Brooks with Ranen Omer-ShermanIn her latest book, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks sets herself the daunting challenge of portraying one of the most heroic yet morally… Ranen Omer-Sherman November 27, 2015
Nonfiction The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer Rita Lakin
Essay A Scribe Among Scribes Diana Bletter is the author of A Remarkable Kindness and lives in Israel. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe series.I was… Diana Bletter August 24, 2015
Nonfiction Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World Linda Hirshman
Nonfiction Brave Girls: Raising Young Women with Passion and Purpose to become Powerful leaders Stacey Radin