Nora Ephron called Zabar’s, “The most rambunctious and chaotic of all delicatessens, with one foot in the Old World and the other in the vanguard of every fast-breaking food move in the city.” Lori Zabar had a keen appreciation for both the old and the new and as such, she was the perfect chronicler for this story.
“Naked at the Helm” takes on the second half of life.
Novelist and winner of the National Jewish Book Award Lauren Belfer chats with Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about the many ways looking at the past can shape and inform our view of the present.
“My hope is that my books help young kids to be excited about being Jewish and to celebrate the richness of the Jewish tradition.”
A Novel About a Jewish female doctor. In the Middle Ages.
As Karen Gray Ruelle ably proves in Surprising Spies: Unexpected Heroes of World War II, there was no one-size-fits all template for the individuals who risked their lives thwart the… Read more »
The Button Box isn’t a proselytizing tool; it’s an adventure story with Jewish and Muslim kids doing a few ordinary Jewish and Muslim things, while they travel through time learning how to own and defend their cultural identities.
“When I eat a knish, when I drink a chocolate egg cream, when I butter a board of matzoh, I feel connected to my heritage and generations of my family.”
“Silence has underscored my life, with my grandmother hiding her Russian Jewish past from her daughters and, in turn, my mother hiding it from me until I was eighteen years old.”
“I think most Jewish kids know the details of the Holocaust when they’re young.”
