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Essay Etgar Keret on Fat Cats JBC Staff January 22, 2010 Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterEtgar Keret writes for Tablet mag about “Fat Cats:”Ehud Olmert, like the author’s son, believes in the feline defense: ‘I’m a cat, not a regular person, and the rules don’t apply to me’ More from JBC Staff Previous Jewish Atheism vs. Atheism Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Next Jewish vs. Goyish: The Year in Review Melissa Broder Related Reading Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Rebecca Schiff Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging fiction authors named as finalists for the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Today, we… JBC Staff May 2, 2017 Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Hot Dog Taste Test If you own a Netflix account — or a subscription to Lucky Peach, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, or McSweeney’s—you’ve seen Lisa Hanawalt’s work. This week, the… JBC Staff June 15, 2016 Recommended Reading 15 Fiction, Nonfiction, and Memoir Titles from 2015 With an entire year’s worth of 2015 titles of Jewish interest featured on Jewish Book Council’s daily new book reviews, we thought we’d sum up the year with the fiction,… JBC Staff December 31, 2015 News The Holocaust Book Award in Memory of Ernest W. Michel Named for 2017 JBC Staff March 7, 2017
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