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This just in from the Jewish Book Council: New York, NY (March 21, 2007) –The Jewish Book Council, administrator of ...

I just received a review copy of Tova Reich’s forthcoming novel My Holocaust, and it looks intense, to say the ...

I just returned from a mini-vacation in Austin — my fifth trip to South By Southwest (SXSW), the music industry’s ...

Long gone are the days when standard Jewish attire was a streimel or a sheitl. Today’s Jewish hipster can’t afford ...

I’m not sure how I feel about the recent Jewcy article “Reclaiming the Nebbish,” in which Peter Hyman exhorts us ...

The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...

In 2000, Harvard professor Ruth Wisse published The Modern Jewish Canon, a book that surveys two centuries of Jewish literature, ...

In the mood for an old-fashioned Yiddish Western?Click here to watch a short film called The Cowboy. Here’s some background on ...

Philip Roth has another award for his trophy case. The AP reports: Philip Roth has won yet another literary prize, ...

The latest installment of Adeena Sussman’s MJL food column “The Inspired Kitchenâ€? is now available. The newest recipe: Mandelbrot – the ...