Items with the category: Contemporary Jewish Life | Jewish Book Council

Poetry

There Is a Prayer

Elizabeth Edelglass

July 26, 2021

Jews and the Olympics

Cover of Reaching for Comfort: What I Saw, What I Learned, and How I Blew it Training as a Pastoral Counselor

Reaching for Comfort: What I Saw, What I Learned, and How I Blew it Training as a Pastoral Counselor

Essay

A Boy Named Jew

Yehudi Mercado

July 6, 2021

Cover of The Brittanys

Brittany Ackerman

Recommended Reading

JBC Bookshelf: Kids Summer Reading

JBC Staff

July 2, 2021

Cover of The Sun Will Come Out

The Sun Will Come Out

Essay

A Friend of the Soul

A.J. Sidransky

June 28, 2021

Cover of I Wish My Father

I Wish My Father

Cover of Turtle Boy

M. Evan Wolkenstein

Essay

Menorah in the Mall: My Jewish Identity as a Florida Teen

Brittany Ackerman

June 14, 2021

Recommended Reading

JBC Bookshelf: Summer Reading 2021

Simona Zaretsky

June 14, 2021

Father’s Day Reading

Interview

‘I Do Believe in Stories’: A Conversation with Joshua Henkin

Sonia Taitz

June 7, 2021

Recommended Reading

Finding Other Jewish Lesbians in Books

Gabrielle Korn

June 3, 2021

Interview

‘Who “gets” to be American?’: A Conversation Between Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Madelyn Rosenberg, Wendy Wan-Long Shang

June 1, 2021