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Items with the tag:

holidays

Cover of The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting
Non­fic­tion
The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting
Rob Kut­ner
Essay

Writ­ing About a Yom Kip­pur in a Gym

Nora Gold
March 4, 2024
Excerpt

Tu B’She­vat with Beni and His Family

Jane Bre­skin Zalben
January 22, 2024
Essay

What Is Our Duty to the Envi­ron­ment? Ques­tions to Con­sid­er on Tu B’Shevat

Joel Bur­cat
January 22, 2024
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Chil­dren’s
Eight Sweet Nights, a Fes­ti­val of Lights: A Hanukkah Story
Charlotte Offsay; Menahem Halberstadt, illus.
Cover of Two New Years
Chil­dren’s
Two New Years
Richard Ho; Lynn Scurfield, illus.
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Cook­book
Loaves of Torah: Explor­ing the Jew­ish Year through Challah 
Vanessa M. Harper
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JBC Book­shelf: Win­ter 2024

Kyra Lisse
December 18, 2023
Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

Kislev, on the Way to Hebron

Eli­az Cohen, Lar­ry Barak
December 8, 2023
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JBC Book­shelf: Hanukkah 2023

Simona Zaret­sky
December 5, 2023
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Chil­dren’s
The Extra­or­di­nary Drei­del: A Hanukkah Sto­ry from Israel
Devorah Omer; Aviel Basil, illus.; Shira Atik, trans.
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Chil­dren’s
Miryam’s Dance
Kerry Olitzky and Rachel Stock Spilker; John Baptist Tumuhaise, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
A Wild, Wild Hanukkah
Jo Gershman and Bob Strauss; Jo Gershman, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
The Mex­i­can Dreidel
Linda Elovitz Marshall and Ilan Stavans; Maria Mola, illus.
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Hanukkah Gob­lins and Hol­i­day Books

Gail Lern­er
November 27, 2023
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‘To Cel­e­brate Non­con­for­mi­ty’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with David Adj­mi and Jack Hazan

Michael Harari
November 27, 2023
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