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Iddo Gefen (center) hiking with his friend Sagi Golan (left) and another friend in an undated photo. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Gefen)
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An Israeli author was excited for his best friend’s wedding. After Oct. 7, it became a funeral.

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman October 27, 2023October 27, 2023
Detail of cover of “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” by Nathan Thrall
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He wanted to tell the story of ordinary Palestinians living under occupation. Will anyone listen now?

by Irene Katz Connelly October 13, 2023October 20, 2023
Lizi Rosenfeld sits on a bench in Austria in 1938. The sign says, ”Only for Aryans.“ (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leo Spitzer)
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New book challenges narrative that Jews were passive victims of Nazis

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman October 12, 2023May 2, 2024
Author Rosa Lowinger (Photo/Scarlett Freund)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Art conservator turns critical eye on Cuban Jewish family in memoir

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman October 5, 2023
James McBride (Photo/Chia Messina)
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Author James McBride’s anti-Mormon remarks contradict spirit of his new novel

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten September 28, 2023January 9, 2024
(JTA illustration by Mollie Suss)
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The buzzy novel ‘Whalefall’ offers a modern spin on the ancient Book of Jonah

Rabbi Stuart Halpern by Rabbi Stuart Halpern September 21, 2023
Adam Mansbach is the author of "The Golem of Brooklyn." (Photo/Susan Chainey)
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In Adam Mansbach’s latest novel, a golem confronts white nationalists in present-day Kentucky

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten September 13, 2023September 13, 2023
An illustration by Renia Metallinou from "Zhen Yu and the Snake" by Erica Lyons.
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A Talmudic tale gets a 12th-century Chinese twist in children’s book aimed at diverse Jewish readers

by Jordyn Haime September 12, 2023September 19, 2023
Rabbi Alan Lew, right, tells story of how he and Norman Fischer (left) got accidentally drunk one time, as Fischer tries to make him shut up, Nov. 1995. (Photo/Phil Head)
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How a book by San Francisco’s ‘Zen Rabbi’ became a High Holidays classic

by Andrew Silow-Carroll September 10, 2023September 11, 2023
"Kantika" by Elizabeth Graver is the next One Bay One Book pick. (Screenshot/YouTube)
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Jewish library picks ‘Kantika,’ novel about Sephardic immigrants, for annual book group

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten September 7, 2023January 26, 2024

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