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Niver In PRINT: Blog Bytes Spring 2023 Jewish Journal

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Thank you to the Jewish Journal for publishing me online for over twelve years. Since they resumed print publication in Fall 2021, I have been in the Blog Bytes section more than thirty-three times! Here are the three issues that I was in during March & April 2023: Jewish Journal March 10, 2023: p. 28— … Continued

Thank you! 30 Best Jewish Book Blogs

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Happy Passover! At this time, Jews celebrate that once we were slaves in Egypt and now we are free. It is a time to think about the narrow places in our lives and how we can start again and grow in Spring! Thank you Feedspot for including me in your 30 Best Jewish Book Blogs … Continued

Niver In PRINT: Blog Bytes Jan 2023 Jewish Journal

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Thank you to the Jewish Journal for publishing me online for over twelve years. Since they resumed print publication in Fall 2021, I have been in the Blog Bytes section more than thirty times! Here are the two issues that I was in during Jan 2023: Jewish Journal Jan 6, 2023: p. 28— From my … Continued

THE LETTERS PROJECT: A DAUGHTER’S JOURNEY

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THE LETTERS PROJECT: A DAUGHTER’S JOURNEY By Eleanor Reissa The Letters Project is about big history, the Holocaust, but it is also an extraordinarily intimate personal narrative—a rare blend of informative, poignant, excruciating, startling, humorous, and ultimately inspiring storytelling. In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of … Continued

A Soviet Childhood in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

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Thank you to Julia Bendis for sharing this excerpt from her book, No Smiling Allowed: Growing up in Soviet Russia and other funny stories from a Jewish immigrant. ABOUT NO SMILING ALLOWED: This book is a comedic take on life in the former Soviet Union, as an immigrant in America. Bendis has compiled many years … Continued

Women’s History Month: READ Woman On Fire

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From the author of the award-winning FUGITIVE COLORS and THE UNBREAKABLES, WOMAN ON FIRE is a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece—forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth. WOMAN ON FIRE summary from HarperCollins Publishers After talking her way into a … Continued

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