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 SHORT FICTION
Etgar Keret's
Bargain
By JOSH LAMBERT
Keret offers 46 fictions at 25 cents a pop. It's a steal.
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 FICTION
Massada No
More?
By YARON PELEG
Some meaningful fiction from life in the IDF.
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 FICTION
Sixty
Years Late and Timely All the Same
By TODD HASAK-LOWY
Khirbet Khizeh, S. Yizhar's
classic, finally makes its way into English.
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 ESSAY
Being a Secular Jew in
Israel
By DAN MAHLER
A brief history of
the politicization of secular Judaism in Israel.
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 ESSAY
God, Gossip, and
Going Astray
By STEPHANIE WELLEN
LEVINE
Naomi Alderman, Shalom Auslander,
and Reva Mann talk freely about loshon
hora.
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 CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Speak No
Evil, Little Dudes
By JOSH LAMBERT
Two graphic novels aim to redefine the term "Jewish superhero."
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 ESSAY
What
Would the Chofetz Chaim Say?
By RACHEL
SOMERSTEIN
How Philip Roth slipped the Evil Tongue into Operation Shylock.
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 ESSAY
A Rough
Guide to Tzaraat
By JOSHUA COHEN
Someone's saying bad things—quick, call a dermatologist!
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 NON-FICTION
Sensual
Semites
By MENACHEM WECKER
A new collection of essays lets it all hang out.
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 NON-FICTION
Multi-secularism
By PAUL KURTZ
Why secular values
matter today.
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 ESSAY
Exodus and Agitation:
Moses the Organizer
By ELLIOT RATZMAN
Liberation doesn’t
happen by accident.
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 ESSAY
God Has Seventy Faces
By RACHEL ELIOR
Elior explores God—the
handiwork of man.
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 FOOD
You Eat What With Your Matzo?!?
By CLARA
SILVERSTEIN
Food writer Clara
Silverstein shares Passover's lesser-known culinary options.
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 ROUNDUP
Passover
Reflections
Secular Jews reflect
on holiday innovations and Judaism’s commitment to freedom.
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 ESSAY
Passover—An Evolving
Holiday
By RABBI ADAM
CHALOM
Adam Chalom considers the tradition of Passover innovation.
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 ESSAY
A Secular Passover
By MICHAEL FELSEN
Creating new
traditions for meaningful holidays.
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 EXCERPT
Who
Knows One?
By RABBI PETER H.
SCHWEITZER
Irreverent
lyrics to a "traditional" song.
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Jewish book
news and reviews from around the web.
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The Sarkozy report
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Making
Hebrew modern
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A
second look at the overlooked Reuveni
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Rosenthal,
revised
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Hey!
Venus!
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1948: very
important and very hard to read
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Some Electric
Company
Ozick! Auslander! Wisse!
Goldstein! Come hear some major literary voices talk about Jews and Power.
It's Nextbook's "Festival of Ideas," May 18, at The Times Center,
242 West 41st Street. Details, details.
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