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

Essay

Writing About a Yom Kippur in a Gym

Nora Gold

March 4, 2024

Essay

“It’s Best to Cancel”: Resilient Listening and Our Kids Today

Adam Gidwitz

February 26, 2024

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News

JBC President Receives Esteemed Honor as a Trailblazer in the Jewish Summer Camp Field

JBC Staff

February 23, 2024

Cover of Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story

Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story

Essay

The 1970s Jewish Multiverse

Don Futterman

February 19, 2024

Excerpt

Excerpt — 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World

Barbara Vinick, Shulamit Reinharz

February 12, 2024

Cover of Just One More Thing . . . and Then Bedtime

Just One More Thing … and Then Bedtime

Menahem Halberstadt; Romy Ronen, trans.

Essay

Jewish Boarding Schools: The Silly, the Serious, the Sublime

Alex Troy

January 15, 2024

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Absolutely, Positively Natty

Interview

Sermons and ‘Something Powerful’: A Conversation with Sharon Brous

Isadora Kianovsky

January 8, 2024

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You Are Not a Guest

Cover of Two New Years

Richard Ho; Lynn Scurfield, illus.

Cover of The Story of Your Obstinate Survival

The Story of Your Obstinate Survival

Daniel Khalastchi

Recommended Reading

JBC Bookshelf: Winter 2024

Kyra Lisse

December 18, 2023