Journalist Emily Tamkin’s comprehensive dive into the influence of George Soros is coming out into a very different world than she thought it would be released into. When she started, following the election of President Donald Trump, conspiracy theories about Soros were beginning to make the leap to mainstream in the United States. More recently,…
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S.F. rabbi’s picture book brings kids to Torah by way of yoga
The rabbi is a yogi. And now also a children’s book author. With her colorfully illustrated debut, “I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book,” Rabbi…
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A treasure trove of LGBTQ texts from two millennia of Jewish history
A year before Noam Sienna, 30, earned his Ph.D. in Jewish history at the University of Minnesota last month, he had already published a groundbreaking…
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Threads of memory: Survivor embroiders pain into beauty
My Ukrainian grandmother came to the U.S. at 17, fleeing the early 20th-century pogroms, then toiled as a seamstress for all her working years. But even…
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In her prescient novels, young people survive pandemic and fascism
What if surviving a pandemic gave you superpowers? That’s the premise behind Victoria Lee’s two-volume Feverwake series. The young adult novels began with…
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A Jewish anti-racist reading list for children of all ages
This moment has many of us reeling. Honestly, for those of you who are, like me, white-presenting Jewish parents, we should consider this a time of…
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Daughters of Holocaust survivors uncover old stories in new memoirs
Jews place a premium on remembering, and particularly so when it comes to the Holocaust. But how can we recall what we never learned? Two outstanding new…
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At 73, she's telling her story of life as a Vietnam-era anti-war fugitive
Using fake IDs and aliases, Emily L. Quint Freeman spent 20 years as a fugitive. In 1969, the 22-year-old anti-war activist and her cohorts broke into a…
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New book tells Jewish stories of the Gold Rush
German immigrant Samuel Snow led a wagon train from the Midwest to California, arriving in El Dorado County in August 1850. He opened a tent store near…