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The Next Chapter for Zibby Owens
One of the most powerful book influencers is transforming the publishing world on women’s terms.

One of the most powerful book influencers is transforming the publishing world on women’s terms.
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RBG’s Brave & Brilliant Women
A curated list of 33 inspiring women that includes trailblazers from the Bible through the 20th century.

A curated list of 33 inspiring women that includes trailblazers from the Bible through the 20th century.
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People Love Dead Jews
At its core, People Love Dead Jews is a meditation on time and identity in which Horn ultimately reasserts the vitality of Jewish life.

At its core, People Love Dead Jews is a meditation on time and identity in which Horn ultimately reasserts the vitality of Jewish life.
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Must-Reads for Jewish Women
The novels and stories that capture our imaginations and are close to our hearts.

The novels and stories that capture our imaginations and are close to our hearts.

A Hasidic Matriarch’s Decision in ‘On Division’

Goldie Goldbloom’s novel follows Surie Eckstein, who faces choices that threaten her happy marriage and her allegiance to her insular hasidic community.

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A Talk With Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann

by Peter Ephross

Now out with her memoir, Judith Heumann discusses the changes that people with disabilities have experienced since she first stepped onto the public stage 50 years ago.

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Theodore Bikel’s Childhood in ‘The City of Light’

For folk singer and actor Theodore Bikel, who died in 2015, Vienna was the City of Lights, and a new children's book details his childhood in Austria's capital.

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Ribalow Prize Presented to Author Michael David Lukas

by Libby Barnea

The award ceremony featured a slate of speakers who provided a rich backdrop to Lukas’s evocative novel, 'The Last Watchman of Old Cairo.'

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Susan Choi Wins National Book Award for Fiction

by Cnaan Liphshiz | JTA

Choi, whose mother is Jewish and whose father is of Korean descent, won in the fiction category for “Trust Exercise.”

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Author Talk: Michael David Lukas

by Joanne Sydney Lessner

Michael David Lukas blends fact and fiction in 'The Last Watchman of Old Cairo,' a richly evocative tapestry that spans 1,000 years in three interconnected narratives.