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    adoption

    Cover of The Length of a String
    Chil­dren’s
    The Length of a String
    Elis­sa Brent Weissman
    Cover of Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust
    Non­fic­tion
    Among the Reeds: The True Sto­ry of How a Fam­i­ly Sur­vived the Holocaust
    Tam­my Bottner
    Cover of Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World
    Non­fic­tion
    Cast­ing Lots: Cre­at­ing a Fam­i­ly in a Beau­ti­ful, Bro­ken World
    Susan Sil­ver­man
    Excerpt

    Who Got an Amer­i­can Any Longer?

    Excerpt from Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman.Maya had been ear­ly to pick up Max the day he didn’t come home with the school bus. Usu­al­ly she was still pow­er­ing up…
    Boris Fish­man
    March 3, 2016
    Cover of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
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    My Grand­fa­ther Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Dis­cov­ers Her Fam­i­ly’s Nazi Past
    Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair; Carolin Sommer, trans.
    Essay

    Read­ing Like a Sen­a­tor, Lov­ing Like a Grandparent

    This week, Claude Kno­bler— the author of More Love, Less Pan­ic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Par­ent­ing After We Adopt­ed Our Son from Ethiopia blogs…
    Claude Kno­bler
    January 20, 2015
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    More Love, Less Pan­ic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Par­ent­ing After We Adopt­ed Our Son from Ethiopia
    Claude Knobler
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    Non­fic­tion
    Dar­ing: My Passages
    Gail Shee­hy
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    Fic­tion
    Hen­na House
    Nomi Eve
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    Fic­tion
    Kin
    Dror Burstein; Dalya Bilu, trans.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Rebec­ca­’s Jour­ney Home
    Brynn Olenberg Sugarman; Michelle Shapiro, illus.
    Cover of Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today's Families: Revised and Updated
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    Liv­ing a Jew­ish Life: Jew­ish Tra­di­tions, Cus­toms, and Val­ues for Today’s Fam­i­lies: Revised and Updated
    Anita Diamant with Howard Cooper
    Essay

    Rais­ing an Ethiopi­an Jew­ish Child in Georgia

    Melis­sa Fay Greene is the author of No Bik­ing in the House With­out a Hel­met. She will be blog­ging all week for the Jew­ish Book…
    Melis­sa Fay Greene
    August 1, 2011
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