Kalaniot Books announced that it will release two new children’s picture books for fall 2023:
Klempner tells the story of what happens when a friendly alien famil…
By Reporter staff
A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available.
Maven will hold the virtual “Tour Global Jewish Life: Amsterdam” on Thursday, …
In the male-dominated world of baseball, Rebecca Alpert is an outsider. Amongst the first to be ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Dr. Alpert, professor of religion emerita and former department chairwoman at Temple University, has grappled with questions of Jewish identit…
By Bill Simons
Jane Leavy is the pre-eminent Jewish baseball biographer. Her biographies of three of baseball’s most iconic figures – “Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy” (2002), “The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created” (2018) and “The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the …
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
When I was very young, I thought bread only had three corners because my mom would cut off one of the corners and eat it. OK, she didn’t always do that, but often enough for me to remember. (And, yes, it became a family joke.) She also never understood how anyone…
