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Nurture the WOW: On Parenting Spirituality
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg share the mundane and mystical, frustrating and fascinating, physical and philosophical aspects of raising children.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg share the mundane and mystical, frustrating and fascinating, physical and philosophical aspects of raising children.
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Judy Blume
Blume’s ability to translate childhood empathy onto the page, to articulate with directness and compassion just how her readers are feeling and thinking, has earned her a loyal fan base for 50 years.

Blume’s ability to translate childhood empathy onto the page, to articulate with directness and compassion, has earned her a loyal fan base for 50 years.

2008 Harold U. Ribalow Prize Winner The Ministry of Special Cases

Kaddish Poznan earns his living at night, scratching the names off tombstones at the behest of respectable Jews who feel the need to pull up

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Books: Shedding Old Light on New Events

It is not surprising that Marek Halter was drawn to write about the colorful but enigmatic historical figure of David Reubeni. Halter, a 71-year-old Polish

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Profile: Najem Wali

by Shoshana London Sappir

This Iraqi-born author fled the tyranny of his homeland as a young man, finding freedom of expression and opportunity abroad. “There is one question that

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Books: And Now—Women of the Book

Rashi and Ibn Ezra, make room.The Torah: A Women’s Commentary, newly published by Women of Reform Judaism and URJ Press, offers 1,400 pages of

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Books: Compassion, Speculation and Love

Fiction 1940 by Jay Neugeboren. (Two Dollar Radio, 274 pp. $15) In his new novel, his first in over two decades, Jay Neugeboren has performed an

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Books: A Complicated Journey of Rescue

Perhaps no blow is as devastating to a parent as the death of a child. So when Lillian Leyb, the protagonist of Amy Bloom’s novel