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Amy Winehouse in 2004. (Photo/JTA-Paul Bergen-Redferns-Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

10 Jewish Amy Winehouse moments (and photos) from a new book on her life

by Mira Zylali September 5, 2023
Veteran catcher Ryan Lavarnway wrote a children's book about his experience playing for Team Israel. (Photo/JTA-Getty; Book page/Courtesy Lavarnway)
Posted inBooks

Veteran catcher Ryan Lavarnway pens children’s book about how playing for Israel brought him closer to Judaism

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis August 29, 2023August 29, 2023
James McBride’s new novel is "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store." (Photo/Courtesy Riverhead Books)
Posted inBooks

His memoir was a transcendent look at Black-Jewish relations. Can he pull it off again — in a novel?

by Irene Katz Connelly August 22, 2023August 23, 2023
A selection of the Beaufort County School District book review committee's notes determining that Bernard Malamud's "The Fixer" was appropriate for students. The South Carolina district returned the challenged book to shelves after nearly a year on Aug. 9, 2023. (Illustration/JTA)
Posted inEducation

‘Persecution of Jews is educationally significant’: How a school district put a contested classic back on the shelves

by Andrew Lapin August 15, 2023
Marlena Spieler wrote that she carried her signature green and white polkadot handbag "to most corners of the world." (Photo/JTA)
Posted inObituaries

Marlena Spieler, globetrotting cookbook writer, had her roots in Jewish S.F.

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 7, 2023August 7, 2023
Clockwise from top left: Ilya Kaminsky, Yetzirah founder Jessica Jacobs, Rodger Kamenetz and Alicia Ostriker. (Photo illustration/Forward- Matthew Litman; Photos/Cory Weller)
Posted inCulture

Finally, something wonderful is happening in the world of Jewish poetry

by Aviya Kushner August 4, 2023August 4, 2023
Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus" on sale at a French bookstore in 2017. (Photo/JTA-ActuaLitté-Flickr Commons)
Posted inU.S.

‘Maus’ evades a ban in Iowa after school district cites ‘ambiguity’ in new state law

by Andrew Lapin August 4, 2023August 4, 2023
Sholem Aleichem at his writing desk in 1904.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Books we reviewed in the early 1900s had not one ‘beach read’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 4, 2023August 6, 2023
Richard Kluger's new book is "Hamlet's Children."
Posted inBooks

Q&A: Pulitzer-winning Berkeley author’s new novel tells story of Danish Jews in World War II

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 4, 2023May 2, 2024
Bernard Malamud was the author of "The Fixer," a 1966 novel about an antisemitic blood libel. (Photo/JTA-Nancy R. Schiff-Getty Images)
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South Carolina school district to return Bernard Malamud’s ‘The Fixer’ to shelves after yearlong removal

by Andrew Lapin August 3, 2023August 3, 2023

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