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How Yiddish authors made a new world writing for children

Miriam Udel's "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature" shows how stories shaped a Jewish identity ...
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700 Hebrew Schools Begin With New Jewish Curricula

This year, over 700 Shluchim around the world welcomed students with contagious enthusiasm and renewed excitement along hands ...
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Katherine Janus Kahn, illustrator of ‘Sammy Spider’ Jewish children’s books, dies at 83

More than 30 years ago, a colorful little eight-legged spider named Sammy made his picture book debut and scurried into the ...
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A US military base canceled a children’s event celebrating a pioneering Jewish woman cyclist, citing DEI ban

The objectionable material was “Pedal Pusher,” a picture book about 19th-century cyclist Annie Cohen Kopchovsky.
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As Greenpoint’s Jewish community grows, so does this shul’s Hebrew school

Newly incorporated by the Greenpoint Shul, a mom-and-pop, twice-a-week school aims to serve all of North Brooklyn's Jewish ...