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Essay Why Do We Publish Picture Books About the Holocaust for Young Children? by Marcia Weiss PosnerEditor’s Note: We are frequently asked by parents, teachers, and others a perplexing question: At which age and at which stage it is… Marcia Weiss Posner March 25, 2015
Essay On Writing a Cookbook for the JCC Manhattan [INCLUDES RECIPE] Katja Goldman, Judy Bernstein Bunzl, and Lisa Rotmil are the authors of the new cookbook The Community Table: Recipes and Stories from the Jewish Community Center… Judy Bernstein Bunzl, Katja Goldman, Lisa Rotmil March 24, 2015
Essay Communicating the Beauty Earlier this week, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall wrote about how on how pluralism strengthens Judaism and shared the backstory behind her newest book, The Myth of the… Roberta Rosenthal Kwall March 20, 2015
Essay Bagels and Groucho Earlier this week, Judith Claire Mitchell wrote about her thoughts on autobiographical novels and her two decades living in the Midwest as a “passing” Jew. The author… Judith Claire Mitchell March 20, 2015
Essay Some Thoughts About Autobiographical Novels I’m sometimes asked if my novel, A Reunion of Ghosts, is autobiographical. The first time I heard this question I was taken aback. A Reunion of… Judith Claire Mitchell March 18, 2015
Essay The Jewish People Are Like a Symphony! Earlier this week, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall shared the backstory behind her newest book, The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition. Roberta is… Roberta Rosenthal Kwall March 18, 2015
