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Fast Forward Picture book about family that celebrates Rosh Hashanah and Lunar New Year nabs top Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book award
A Holocaust novel, a middle-grades story about an Orthodox girl and the publisher of the Sammy Spider series also got awards from the Association of Jewish Libraries
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Culture This novel is a glowing portrayal of Israel’s early days. Now it’s being ‘review-bombed’ on Goodreads
Author Talia Carner condemned critics who described her forthcoming novel, 'The Boy With the Star Tattoo,' as Israeli 'propaganda' — but she agrees that she's written a Zionist book
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Fast Forward Anne Frank’s diary, ‘Schindler’s List’ among titles at center of major Florida book-ban lawsuit
The illustrated version of the diary has faced challenges, but Escambia County is the first known to pull the original diary
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Fast Forward Citing risk to Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ Iowa judge blocks key parts of state book ban law
Iowa’s Republican governor signed the bill into law last year along with other culture-war legislation targeting transgender athletes and student pronouns in schools
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Culture How did this feisty and ferocious Jewish-American writer fall so far into obscurity?
Mike Gold, author of 'Jews Without Money,' was an uncompromising leftist who epitomized the idea of a proletarian writer
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Fast Forward Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books, including Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’
The Orlando-area district was the latest to purge Jewish- and Holocaust-themed books from the shelves in fear of a state law forbidding explicit content
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Culture The best Jewish books of 2023
Grab one (or several) of these new classics before the new year
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Culture In the Warsaw ghetto, where disease, cold weather and violence all exerted heavy tolls
Lauren Grodstein's 'We Must Not Think of Ourselves' focuses on glimmers of hope amid overwhelming catastrophe
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
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