Woodstock Values
Deborah Fineblum Raub
For many of the tens of thousands of young Jews who made the pilgrimage to Woodstock—the Big One—there was something vaguely Jewish about the experience.
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Sigd's Teachable Moment
Barbara Sofer
Two Youth Aliyah villages have embraced the Ethiopian holiday of Sigd as a way of imbuing their Ethiopian students with pride in their history and identity.
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The Finkler Question: 2011 Harold U. Ribalow Prize Winner
Howard Jacobson
An insightful, troubling and often hysterically funny novel of Jewish identity.
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The Wonders of America
Sholom Alechem/Translated by Curt Leviant
The celebrated Yiddish humorist used his keen powers of observation to describe daily life (and death) in the goldene medina.
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Israel's Waiting Room
Debbi Cooper
They have traveled from small village to the cities of Gondar and Addis Abada in the hopes of moving to Israel. For the Falash Mura, their journey may finally be coming to an end.
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Cuba Through a Half-Open Door
Andrée Aelion Brooks
More American Jews are traveling to Communist Cuba—which itself is cultivating a more relaxed environment, permitting some free enterprise.
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Woodstock Values - By Deborah Fineblum Raub
Sigd's Teachable Moment - By Barbara Sofer
The Finkler Question: 2011 Harold U. Ribalow Prize Winner - By Howard Jacobson
The Wonders of America - By Sholom Alechem/Translated by Curt Leviant
Israel's Waiting Room - By Debbi Cooper
Cuba Through a Half-Open Door - By Andrée Aelion Brooks
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