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JBC Staff Articles Interviews Recommended Reading It’s Coming Soon…JSF on Eating Animals Posted By Naomi Firestone-TeeterJonathan Safran Foer‘s newest book Eating Animals will be published on November 2nd by Little, Brown and Company. Eating… JBC Staff October 14, 2009 News Josef Burg, Yiddish author, dies at 97 Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times reports on the death of Josef Burg, one of the last Yiddish authors in Eastern Europe, whose death on August 10, 2009,… JBC Staff October 7, 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 News Reading the Talmud on the B Train Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times published an interesting article yesterday by Alexis Mainland on reading while traveling on the NYC subway… JBC Staff September 4, 2009 News Readers Dissect Tony Horwitz’s review of Israel is Real Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterSteve Coates of the NY Times Paper Cuts Blog shares readers’ letters in response to Tony Horwitz’s review of Israel Is… JBC Staff September 2, 2009 News Holocaust Novel Coming Soon from Author of Life of Pie Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLife of Pi author Yann Martel just sold the rights to his third book to Spiegel & Grau. The new book is an allegory about the… JBC Staff July 20, 2009 Essay Ariel Sabar: A Time to Put Aside the Armor Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAriel Sabar, author of My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, wrote an essay for last… JBC Staff July 20, 2009 Recommended Reading A Modern Men’s Torah Commentary Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterDebra Nussbaum Cohen posted on the Forward‘s Sisterhood Blog this week about a forthcoming book from Jewish Lights… JBC Staff July 17, 2009 News Rather Strange…But We Thought We’d Share Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterPhilip Roth laugh sample on a dance track? Yep, it exists. Read more here. JBC Staff June 25, 2009 Recommended Reading Tobi Kahn: Exhibit and Book Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) will present Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century, an exhibition of 30 recent… JBC Staff June 19, 2009 News More for your 2010 (and 2011) Reading List! Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWe just got wind (via Publisher’s Weekly on Twitter (@PublishersWkly)) that we can look forward to new work from Jonathan Safran… JBC Staff June 19, 2009 News JPS CEO/Editor-in-Chief Ellen Frankel Steps Down Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter This morning, the Jewish Publication Society announced that Ellen Frankel, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish… JBC Staff June 17, 2009 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 16 Next page ›› News 2019 National Jewish Book Award Auction February 19, 2020
Recommended Reading It’s Coming Soon…JSF on Eating Animals Posted By Naomi Firestone-TeeterJonathan Safran Foer‘s newest book Eating Animals will be published on November 2nd by Little, Brown and Company. Eating… JBC Staff October 14, 2009
News Josef Burg, Yiddish author, dies at 97 Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times reports on the death of Josef Burg, one of the last Yiddish authors in Eastern Europe, whose death on August 10, 2009,… JBC Staff October 7, 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
News Reading the Talmud on the B Train Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times published an interesting article yesterday by Alexis Mainland on reading while traveling on the NYC subway… JBC Staff September 4, 2009
News Readers Dissect Tony Horwitz’s review of Israel is Real Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterSteve Coates of the NY Times Paper Cuts Blog shares readers’ letters in response to Tony Horwitz’s review of Israel Is… JBC Staff September 2, 2009
News Holocaust Novel Coming Soon from Author of Life of Pie Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLife of Pi author Yann Martel just sold the rights to his third book to Spiegel & Grau. The new book is an allegory about the… JBC Staff July 20, 2009
Essay Ariel Sabar: A Time to Put Aside the Armor Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAriel Sabar, author of My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, wrote an essay for last… JBC Staff July 20, 2009
Recommended Reading A Modern Men’s Torah Commentary Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterDebra Nussbaum Cohen posted on the Forward‘s Sisterhood Blog this week about a forthcoming book from Jewish Lights… JBC Staff July 17, 2009
News Rather Strange…But We Thought We’d Share Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterPhilip Roth laugh sample on a dance track? Yep, it exists. Read more here. JBC Staff June 25, 2009
Recommended Reading Tobi Kahn: Exhibit and Book Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) will present Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century, an exhibition of 30 recent… JBC Staff June 19, 2009
News More for your 2010 (and 2011) Reading List! Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWe just got wind (via Publisher’s Weekly on Twitter (@PublishersWkly)) that we can look forward to new work from Jonathan Safran… JBC Staff June 19, 2009
News JPS CEO/Editor-in-Chief Ellen Frankel Steps Down Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter This morning, the Jewish Publication Society announced that Ellen Frankel, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish… JBC Staff June 17, 2009
