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Books Author Blog: Why I Write
Ramona Ausubel is the author of the novel “No One Is Here Except All of Us,” published by Riverhead Books. Her blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: Maybe there are four or…
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Books Author Blog: Bageling
Earlier this week Rav Ron Yitzchok Eisenman wrote about an unexpected Hava Nagila moment and about his disdain for the phrase: “How’s Everything?” His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: Have you…
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Books Six Words Is All it Takes
“Circumcision has been least challenging part.” “God chose. Said no. Now what? “Sunday night? Yes, lobster is kosher.” Millions of words, over thousands of years, have been written about the nature of the Jewish soul. But the most precise distillation of our people’s essence may have finally arrived in fewer characters than a tweet. “Six…
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Books Author Blog: How’s Everything?
Earlier this week Rav Ron Yitzchok Eisenman wrote about an unexpected Hava Nagila moment. His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: Yesterday a man came to see me for an appointment. As…
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Books Author Blog: Hava Nagila
Rav Ron Yitzchok Eisenman is the author of “The Elephant in the Room.” His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: Yesterday was some day — I almost cannot remember the clock moving;…
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Books Author Blog: Play With Your Passover Food!
Earlier this week, Aviva Kanoff wrote about quinoa, the superfood. Her blog posts have been featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: This year, you won’t have to bribe your kids to eat their vegetables. With…
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Books Author Blog: The Lost Afikomen
Moshe Kasher is a stand-up comedian and the author of “Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16.” This is a story of a Passover miracle. Or something. Readers should be advised of strong language and total immaturity……
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Books Author Blog: Passover for Non-Bolivians
Aviva Kanoff is the author of “The No-Potato Passover” Her blog posts are being featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit: By now, most people have heard of quinoa, the superfood. With plenty of fiber, protein…
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