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Essay

The Allure of Kosher Food for the Jew­ish Holidays

Sue Fishkoff is the author of Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a High­er Author­i­ty. She will be blog­ging all week for…
Sue Fishkoff
November 1, 2010
Essay

Why Do They Call it Fast­ing When it Goes SO SLOW?

On Mon­day, Stacey Bal­lis wrote about Rosh Hashanah cook­ing. Her newest book, Good Enough to Eat, is now available.As I men­tioned before, my Judaism,…
Stacey Bal­lis
September 1, 2010
Essay

A Sweet New Year

Stacey Bal­lis‘ newest book, Good Enough to Eat, will be avail­able Sep­tem­ber 7th. Check back all week for more deli­cious posts from Stacey for the Jew­ish Book…
Stacey Bal­lis
August 30, 2010
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Shavuot Link Round-Up

Dear Read­ers-Hap­py Shavuot from the Jew­ish Book Council!Shavuot cov­er­age and FAQs from TabletWhat Shavuot Teach­es Us About Women on…
JBC Staff
May 18, 2010
Essay

Why Bake Your Own Matzah?

In his last post, Rab­bi Elie Kaun­fer wrote about new mod­els for engaged Jew­ish life. He’ll be blog­ging all week for Jew­ish Book…
Elie Kaun­fer
April 8, 2010
Essay

A Chanukah vis­it to the White House with Ali­son Buckholtz

Ali­son Buck­holtz and her chil­dren Ethan and Esther Moran with Pres­i­dent Oba­ma and Mrs. ObamaThe scene was famil­iar, but not our place in it. Last night, our…
Ali­son Buckholtz
December 17, 2009
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7 Books To Give For Hanukkah

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterJonathan Kirsch of The Huff­in­g­ton Post offers sev­en books to give for Hanukkah:My own list is an inter­faith effort, and I am…
JBC Staff
December 2, 2009
Essay

In the Sukkot Market

In this spe­cial install­ment of the Jew­ish Book Council/​MyJew­ish­Learn­ing Vis­it­ing Scribe series, we spot­light book illus­tra­tor and visu­al artist Eliyahu…
Eliyahu Alpern
October 14, 2009
Recommended Reading

Can’t Think of a Recipe for Sukkot?

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterNeed a new recipe for Sukkot? Check out these new cookbooks:Jew­ish Slow Cook­er Recipes (Lau­ra Frankel)In Jew­ish Slow Cook­er…
JBC Staff
October 1, 2009
Essay

Eat Me

In her last posts, Jen­nifer Traig reor­ga­nized her library and looked at the changes from her past year. She has been guest-blog­ging all week…
Jen­nifer Traig
September 24, 2009
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