My Book Won an Award! (Or My Life is Bigger Than Cancer)
Award-winning author Amy Ariel shares what it’s like to win a national book award after 18 months of dealing with leukemia and a bone marrow transplant.
Engaging a New Generation: What Jews Can Learn From the Minnesota Opera
TC Jewfolk Editor Leora Itman says our Jewish community can take a few tips from the Opera on how to engage young Jews.
diaTribe: 97 Orchard Street Is So Worth the Trip
Jane Ziegelman’s “97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement” is better than a pickle on a stick.
diaTribe Review: Celebrating Judaism beyond the binary in "Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community"
A glowing diaTribe review of the book “Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community,” newly released this month, just in time for a fresh look at Gay Pride.
diaTribe: new JPS Jewish Sex and Intimacy book leaves readers unsatisfied
Remember that not-so-great kiss, and the almost painful second date, and the moment when you realize no matter how badly you want it to work it just isn’t clicking? That is pretty much how I felt reading this book.
Noshin': A Taste of Tu B’Shevat
A smorgasbord of recipe suggestions for celebrating Tu B’Shevat.
Noshin’: Tu B’Shevat for Mature Audiences
A primer on Tu B’Shevat, with suggestions for creating your own Tu B’Shevat seder (complete with lots of wine and chocolate!).