Apr 15, 2019
The
Length of a String won a 2019
Sydney Taylor Honor Award in the Older Readers Category. It's a
middle grade novel about Imani, an adopted black Jewish girl who
wants to learn about her birth parents. When she inherits a
Holocaust-era diary from her Jewish great-grandmother, she begins
to see family in a whole new...
Apr 1, 2019
Paula Shoyer is known as The Kosher Baker. I met her at Limmud, a one day conference of Jewish learning on a wide variety of topics, held in December 2018 in Boca Raton, Florida. Paula was there to present two sessions: "Are Your Jewish Holiday Meals Dangerous?" and "Jewish Cookbooks Tell Our Stories." We sat...
