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2012 National Jewish Book Award Winners – New York NY | Examiner.com
via examiner.com The Jewish Book Council’s 2012 book of the year is not one book but three: the three volume box set City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York published last September by New York University Press.
Voting in NYC: find your post-Sandy polling place
November 5, 2012
To summarize, verify the location of your polling place before heading out to vote. Vote Here sign fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com Tomorrow is election day. Most years most voters in the City of New York know where their polling place is located; the Board of Elections usually does a good job of notifying voters where to vote well […]
Make your own shofar at Columbia University
September 4, 2012
Make your own shofar at Columbia University
"Learn the entire process of creating a Kosher Shofar from the cooking to the final polishing (sorry we will not be hunting live rams)."
“Compliance” NY premiere Friday at BAM
June 27, 2012
Ann Dowd as the restaurant manager in “Compliance” Photo credit: allmoviephoto.com Read the article on examiner.com
“What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past” published today
September 1, 2011
What happens when a New York Jewish pack-rat daughter inherits her New York Jewish pack-rat father’s belongings? She embarks on a Jewish genealogical search for her and her dad’s long lost relatives. Nancy K. Miller‘s What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past, published today by University of Nebraska Press, is the story of […]
Vaclav and Lena, a novel about Russian-Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn – New York NY
May 17, 2011
Today New York publisher The Dial Press, a division of Random House, releases Haley Tanner‘s debut novel Vaclav and Lena, a coming of age tale about Russian-Jewish immigrant children in Brooklyn. In my New York Journal of Books review I describe the book as “a tale of unconditional love; of attachment, separation, and reunion; and […]
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