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Abortion Before Roe: ‘I Was Ready to Kill Myself’
For Nice Jewish Girls, abortion in the pre-Roe v. Wade era was excruciatingly shameful.

For Nice Jewish Girls, abortion in the pre-Roe v. Wade era was excruciatingly shameful.
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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.

Idra Novey, who renders Spanish and Portuguese fiction into English, would like us to know more about translators, so she has stepped into the more visible role of

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Should Have Played Poker

by Zelda Shluker

In Debra Goldstein's new mystery, a group of Mah Jongg players and a young lawyer join forces to solve two murders.

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Behind God’s Back

by Zelda Shluker

Anti-Semitism and community ties complicate the case in the second installment of a Scandinavian series following Jewish detective Ariel Kafka of Helsinki's Violent Crimes Unit.