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Picking Sabras With Meir Shalev
In an excerpt from his new book, My Wild Garden, renowned author Meir Shalev shares humorous reminiscences of gathering sabras and ruminates on the link between the cactus and the modern Israeli.

In an excerpt from his book ‘My Wild Garden,’ author Meir Shalev talks about gathering sabras and the link between the cactus and the modern Israeli.
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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.

In his gripping new novel, Jonathan de Shalit reprises the character of Ya’ara Stein, a ruthless Mossad agent on a mission to keep Israel safe.

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‘Zion’s Fiction,’ Homegrown Sci-Fi From Israel

by Gideon Marcus

Israel may have been late to the sci-fi game but here, at last, is the first anthology of works from the genre from the Holy Land.

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‘A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture’

by Sherry Shameer Cohen

Find out about the coffeehouses that became the refuges of Jewish writers, thinkers, activists and even gangsters from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries.

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Author Talk: Eve Ensler

by Joanne Sydney Lessner

The acclaimed author of 'The Vagina Monologues' talks about her newest book, 'The Apology.'

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Eve Ensler Channels Her Father in ‘The Apology’

by Joanne Sydney Lessner

In this slim but powerful volume, Ensler crafts, in her late-father’s voice, the letter of apology she’ll never receive from the man who abused her.

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Legendary Author Herman Wouk Dies at 103

by Rachel Gordan | JTA

Wouk was the author of two dozen novels and works of nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Caine Mutiny' and the best-selling 'Marjorie Morningstar.'