Debra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning journalist and the author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant. Follow her on Instagram @debranc or email her at dncnews@icloud.com.
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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At the first national conference on Jewish women and prayer, the numerous attendants told a story as important as the sessions themselves. Some 350 participants crowded into breakout sessions, filling every seat at the March 1 event. They stood along the walls and sat on the floors at Manhattan’s Abraham Joshua Heschel High School, where…
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Although the world’s foremost collector of rare Jewish books has traveled the globe seeking books printed in the Far East, the Ottoman Empire and throughout Europe, his greatest collecting triumph took place virtually at his front door. Jack Lunzer, 84, a producer of industrial diamonds from Africa, spent six decades assembling the Valmadonna Trust Library,…
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