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By Lynn Melnick
New books for Passover include two that translate the Four Questions from Hebrew into different languages and two new haggadahs.
Date: 04-15-2008
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By Aliza Hausman
A Jew by choice who converted with an Orthodox rabbi reviews a book by a Jew by choice who converted Reform--and finds her story "honorable."
Date: 06-02-2009
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By Mimi DuPree
Two out of three of these new children's books about Israel are great--one you'll want to give as a baby gift, and one you'll want to reread yourself.
Date: 10-19-2009
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By Tracy Hahn-Burkett
Review of The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Joyce Carol Oates’ novel about a cursed, tortured woman whose father was a gravedigger and refugee from Nazi Germany.
Date: 11-12-2007
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By Lynn Melnick
Review of Mohr, Frederick Reuss' fictionalized account of his intermarried grandfather’s departure from Germany and troubled life in Shanghai.
Date: 11-30-2007
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By Aaron Leibel
She was an experienced cookbook writer who wanted to learn about her husband's food traditions.
Date: 01-05-2009
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By Sherry Israel
Keren's McGinity's new book tells the fascinating story of changes over the course of the 20th century in the roles and self-concepts of intermarried American Jewish women, and the effects of those changes on the transmission of Jewish identity to the nex
Date: 05-05-2009
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By Judith Bolton-Fasman
Profile of Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, author of With Roots in Heaven: One Woman’s Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith, and her spiritual journey that led her to new approaches of incorporating interfaith families into her synagogue.
Date: 02-17-2007
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By Rachel Freedenberg
Two young Jewish artists in interfaith families write personal graphic novels.
Date: 05-28-2008
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By Mimi DuPree
There's a reason "unremittingly bleak" is not a shelf category in the Barnes and Noble Children's Section.
Date: 03-15-2010