Sarah Weinman
By Sarah Weinman
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News Debut Crime Novel Set in Boro Park Hasidic Community
● Invisible City By Julia Dahl Minotaur Books, 304 pages, $24.99 About a week or so after I published my first short story in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, I learned an embarrassing lesson about the importance of getting things right. Scoring a publication credit in EQMM, the longest continuously running, and arguably the best magazine…
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Culture Menachem Beilis ‘Blood Libel’ Case Gets a New Hearing
● A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel By Edmund Levin Schocken, 362 pages, $28.95 A little more than 100 years ago, an innocent man was about to go on trial. His alleged crime: the murder of a 13-year-old boy two years earlier, found dead of multiple…
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Culture Stacy Horn Preaches To the Choir
IMPERFECT HARMONY: FINDING HAPPINESS IN SINGING WITH OTHERS By Stacy Horn Algonquin, 256 pages, $15.95 During my high school and college years, I used to joke that if there was a church on an Ottawa, Ontario, street corner, I probably sang in it. The joke came back to me while I was reading Stacy Horn’s…
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News At Washington University, 2 Jewish seniors differ on Israel, but share a sense of loss
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