Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter If you’re a subscriber to Jewish Book World and haven’t received your fall issue, fear not, it’s in the mail, and you’ll be reading it very soon. If you’re not, check out some sample reviews from the issue, below. Interested in subscribing? It’s super easy. Just click here. 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement Jane Ziegelman Taking one New York City tenement as her base, Jane Ziegelman follows the food traditions that five immigrant families brought to their new home. Ziegelman, a food historian and director of the ... [Link]

Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter PW profiles Sue Fishkoff and her newest book, Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority 21st-Century Tanakh Debuts from Jewish Publication Society
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This is the first-place winner of MyJewishLearning.com and Shemspeed.com’s High Holiday Poetry Contest. Read our other winners, Wet Toes and Dragon Tefillin. Caregiver’s Rosh Hashanah by Rita Janice Traub The only shofar sounds we hear are beep of horn and screech of brakes. Shul is off-limits to us now. Each cluttered room a temple makes. No reader chants the liturgy anywhere [...] [Link]

I have a confession to make: I don’t like apples and honey. I mean, I don’t dislike them, but I don’t look forward to them, and I rarely even finish the one piece of apple that I take. I just find them to be thoroughly blah. I like my sweetness in different textures, I guess. As [...] [Link]

Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter Rodger Kamenetz Burnt Books journeys to Uman for Rosh Hashanah:
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Earlier today, we announced Dragon Tefillin, the third-place winner in our High Holiday Poetry Contest, sponsored by MJL and Shemspeed. Here’s#2. Wet toes by Monica Goldberg Under the humidity of falling light we talk about creation and shoe sales head for the beach with apples and honey three bottles of premise and a new age cd Check back later today to find out the #1 winner! [Link]

On Monday, Stacey Ballis wrote about Rosh Hashanah cooking. Her newest book, Good Enough to Eat, will be available September 7th. As I mentioned before, my Judaism, while deeply rooted and very important to me, is something that falls more on the side of culture and tradition and less specifically on the side of religion or spirituality. But there are certain [...] [Link]

On Monday, Stacey Ballis wrote about Rosh Hashanah cooking. Her newest book, Good Enough to Eat, will be available September 7th. As I mentioned before, my Judaism, while deeply rooted and very important to me, is something that falls more on the side of culture and tradition and less specifically on the side of religion or spirituality. But there are certain aspects of every holiday that resonate for me, and one of the things I appreciate about being Jewish, is that I can feel free to cherry pick the pieces I like and leave the rest behind. As we look ... [Link]

This year’s High Holiday Poetry Contest–sponsored by MJL and Shemspeed–was a bit of a whopper, as my Australian family would say. The Jewish New Year coming so close to summer vacation might have surprised us, but not you. We demanded that you all produce works of sheer genius in just two weeks. And you came [...] [Link]

T-minus eight days until Rosh Hashanah. In that time, I have to pack up all my things, get them in a moving truck, unpack my things, set up my new apartment and sleep. Then, I’ll still have about seven days until Rosh Hashanah. What ever will I do with my time once I’m done moving? I’ll [...] [Link]

Okay — maybe you look at more email forwards and cheesy Facebook photos than I do. It’s not that hard to achieve, I assure you. Between getting Jewniverse ready, re-watching the awesome new G-dcast video, and keeping on top of office gossip, I barely have time to read my own email. So — yeah — maybe [...] [Link]

My ears are delicious. I have that on good authority because I was told it this very weekend sorry, TMI? . So when I read an article in ynet about a Chinese product called Jew’s Ear Juice, I thought to myself, “Who has been stealing my ear juice and smuggling it to China?” But it turns [...] [Link]

A mere 0.5% of Israel’s energy comes from renewables. Why? Ha’aretz It is argued that Israel faces a looming electricity shortage crisis, because of failure to build the necessary production facilities. Despite a 2001 goal of 20% production from private hands by 2009, by 2009, it was only 3%. Ha’aretz Preventing the further collapse of seaside cliffs [...] [Link]

Stacey Ballis‘ newest book, Good Enough to Eat, will be available September 7th. Check back all week for more delicious posts from Stacey for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning‘s Author Blog series. When people ask me what I love most about being Jewish, the images flash before my eyes. Succulent slices of slow cooked brisket, moist [...] [Link]

Stacey Ballis‘ newest book, Good Enough to Eat, will be available September 7th. Check back all week for more delicious posts from Stacey for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning‘s Author Blog series. When people ask me what I love most about being Jewish, the images flash before my eyes. Succulent slices of slow cooked brisket, moist with rich tomato-y gravy. Latkes, crisp on the outside, melting in the middle, with applesauce and sour cream. Light as air matzo balls, floating in a pool of golden chicken soup, dense sweet noodle kugel. I mean, yes, of course I love being ... [Link]

With the week coming to a close, let’s take a look at what went on at MyJewishLearning over the past few days… Ken Gordon took on the task of trying to make his very own shofar. Needless to say, it was a smelly time. Did you know that in ancient times, there were actually four new years? [...] [Link]

Yeah? You thought were done with Bernie Madoff? Well think again! Because we are only getting started. This week, Six Points announced its fellows for 2010. And let me tell you, they do not disappoint. To prove this, you have to look no further than the project of Alicia Jo Rabins, of Girls in Trouble fame. Why [...] [Link]

Posted by Dani Crickman Tomorrow, August 28th, is International Read Comics in Public Day, and we hope you’re as eager to take to the streets, book in hand, as we are. But what to read? While you can always pull out the old Superman comics, there’s a vast wealth of Jewish graphic novels and comic books out there to choose from. In honor of the upcoming holiday, allow us to recommend a few from our bookshelf to get you started. Market Day by James Sturm 2010
[Market Day] , on the surface, is about a eastern European Jewish craftsman at the ... [Link]

Earlier this week Laurel Snyder blogged on writing a book about inclusion and diversity and the job of being Jewish. She is the author of the picture book Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher. Once I saw David Goldin’s wonderful pictures of Baxter, I immediately fell in love with the little pig. Then [...] [Link]

Earlier this week Laurel Snyder blogged on writing a book about inclusion and diversity and the job of being Jewish. She is the author of the picture book Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher. Once I saw David Goldin’s wonderful pictures of Baxter, I immediately fell in love with the little pig. Then I began to imagine where his further adventures might take him. But trying to write a sequel actually feels pretty difficult to me. I mean, is Baxter actually becoming Jewish? How far can I take that? The thing about Baxter is that he’s clueless, a ... [Link]

“Whoever repudiates idolatry is called a Jew.” –Babylonian Talmud Megillah 13a Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on MJL. [Link]

How will you be celebrating your Rosh Hashanah? I’m going to be heading up to Canada to celebrate with my family, eating a lot of good food and going to a lot of synagogue. Sounds like a normal day to me. But there are other ways to celebrate the day…especially if you aren’t particularly observant or [...] [Link]

Posted by Miri Pomerantz Dauber Every year, through our Jewish Book NETWORK program, we make shidduchs between over 200 recently published authors and Jewish book programs around the country and help arrange tours for these amazing authors. With Jewish Book Month around the corner November 2! , we can now share the list of touring authors with you which includes some of your favorite JBC/MJL guest bloggers . We’re all reading our way through them. The huge range of topics and interests that are covered makes this a great reading list. And if you’re lucky, one of these authors might ... [Link]

A little while back, I blogged about a brand new kosher taco truck in Los Angeles. Needless to say, my mouth has been drooling ever since It’s pretty embarrassing. I have to carry a handkerchief everywhere I go . But my heart belongs in the East Coast so it is only fair if I do a [...] [Link]

Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter We just received the finished copy of Gregory Levey‘s How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less: Without Leaving Your Apartment…great cover! Stay tuned for a review in an upcoming issue of Jewish Book World, as well as his guest author posts in October for the JBC/MJL Author Blog series.

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