Jason Diamond

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Gal Beckerman And Cynthia Ozick Among The 2010 National Jewish Book Award Winners

The folks at The Jewish Book Council just announced the winners of the National Jewish Book Awards. Cynthia Ozick and Gal Beckerman are among the big winners.

If You ‘Like’ Mein Kampf

After the deadly shootings in Arizona over the weekend, we take a look at people who claim to ‘like’ Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”

MCA OF The Beastie Boys Is Cancer Free, But Debbie Friedman Isn’t Doing Well

I know at some point in the early 1990’s that I wasn’t the only person to storm out of a room in my house that had a Friedman song being played by one of my parents, go up to my room, slam the door and blast Ill Communication.

JTA Fails To Not Make Race An Issue Over African-American Rabbi Firing

Does the JTA really need to report on a rabbi’s contract not being renewed? If she’s the first African-American female rabbi they do.

Jewcy Interviews: Myla Goldberg – Author

Some writers spend an entire career seeking critical and popular success. For Myla Goldberg, it came early with the success of her book “Bee Season” — and the eventual film adaptation of the novel helped Goldberg score a bestseller with her first try. Her latest novel, “The False Friend,” is another winner.

Which Big Book Will Keep You Safe?

The battle to find out which large Jewish work of fiction was the best wasn’t settled. The one that would stop a bullet was.

My Jewish 90210 Crush Just Turned 50

Coming to grips with the fact that your childhood television crush was nearly fifteen years older than you.

Jewcy Interviews: Vanessa Davis – Comic Artist/Writer

The reason that Make Me a Woman, the collection of comics by artist and writer Vanessa Davis, didn’t make it into our top art books of 2010 is simply because we felt the book was in a class all of its own.