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Roxane van Iperen’s home was once the center for one of Holland’s most daring Holocaust rescue operations. She wrote about it in “The High Nest.” (Jan Willem Kaldenbach)
Part of the book’s appeal lies in the strong characters of the people who did the rescuing at van Iperen’s home: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper and their families.
Read MoreIn her new book, author Israela Meyerstein hopes to reveal the Jewish state’s more personal and humanitarian sides.
Read MoreA book is the best present — even if it is a present to yourself.
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Stan Lee poses with a book of "Spider Man" comics in 1991. Along with Spider Man, Lee created characters such as Iron Man, Thor and The Incredible Hulk. (Gerald Martineau/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Lee gave American comic books permission to be more Jewish.
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Deborah Tannen opens the Festival of Jewish Literature, which runs Nov. 8-18 around Baltimore. (Photo by Jonathan Timmes)
If you’ve ever wondered where you’d be without your BFF, Deborah Tannen’s latest book “You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships” is bound to resonate with you.
Read MoreSo many more people than he could have imagined contribute to the author’s morning cup of coffee.
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Author/artist Betty Grodnitzky (right) is shown here with Rebecca Hoffberger, founder and director of the American Visionary Art Museum.
Betty Grodnitzky finds capturing the animal world with her art is a healing tool.
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Shais Rishon's latest book, "Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi," tells the story of a 20-something black rabbi. (Courtesy of Rishon)
“I’m so excited to write this, so there is no confusion,” Shais Rishon says. “I’m an African-American author, yes, and a Jewish-American author, yes — both. To put the Jew of color entry into Jewish American fiction.”
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Dubbed the "Kosher Martha Stewart," cookbook author Susie Fishbein will offer tips, tidbits and samples of her cooking at Chizuk Amuno Congregation on Oct. 17. (Handout Photo)
The Martha Stewart of kashrut is coming to Charm City.
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Mohammed Al Samawi: "You cannot read the Bible in Yemen. What I found out was there were many similarities between the Bible and the Koran." (Handout Photo)
Mohammed Al Samawi fled his homeland three years ago because of his interfaith activism there, as well as that nation’s bloody civil war.
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The cover of "The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman," by Julian Voloj and illustrated by Thomas Campi. (Super Genius)
The story of these two Jewish comic book legends is dramatic and heartbreaking in its own right, and it’s now chronicled in a graphic novel titled “The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman.”
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