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Nonfiction The Bar Mitzvah and The Beast: One Family’s Cross-Country Ride of Passage by Bike Matt Biers-Ariel
Nonfiction The Scattered Tribe: Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond Ben G. Frank
Essay Keeping Doubt Alive Earlier this week, Eric Weiner wrote about carrots, fish, and Jewish souls and the pleasures of spiritual travel. He has been blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Eric Weiner February 10, 2012
Essay The Perils and Pleasures of Spiritual Travel Earlier this week, Eric Weiner wrote about carrots, fish, and Jewish souls. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.I’ve… Eric Weiner February 8, 2012
Essay On Carrots and Fishes and Jewish Souls Eric Weiner’s new book, Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine, is now available. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Eric Weiner February 6, 2012
Nonfiction Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands Robert Satloff
Essay Just Like Comrade Karl Marx Earlier this week, Michael Levy wrote about Jews and Chinese food and what Chinese people think about Jews. He has been blogging all week for… Michael Levy August 12, 2011
Essay What Chinese People Think about Jews On Monday, Michael Levy wrote about Jews and Chinese Food. He is the author of Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other… Michael Levy August 10, 2011
Recommended Reading JBC Bookshelf: Fall Travel Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThis fall, travel through history with literature: Vivian Gornick presents a portrait of an early 20th century radical icon;… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 9, 2011
Essay The Wandering Jew and The Yeti C. Alexander London is the author of We Are Not Eaten By Yaks: An Accidental Adventure, and the forthcoming sequel, We Dine With Cannibals. As Charles… Charles London May 23, 2011
Essay Reading for a Long Plane Ride Posted by Dani CrickmanJBC is off to Israel for next week’s Jerusalem International Book Fair, and I’m facing my usual packing dilemma: how to cram all the books… Dani Crickman February 18, 2011
Essay Tunisia, Whitesnake, and My Top Ten Favorite Jews of All Time Michael David Lukas’ first book, The Oracle of Stamboul, is now available. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and… Michael David Lukas February 14, 2011
Essay Day After Night: The Book Tour In her last posts, Anita Diamant wrote about the cover of her newest novel Day After Night and about where she gets her ideas from.I will be on… Anita Diamant September 11, 2009