Photo: Courtesy of Barb Rosenstock Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I am a life-long resident of Chicago. In school I loved history, social studies, theatre, and music. Yet, I was a psychology major in college, and worked in corporate marketing and communications for about twenty years…writing for children was […]
Category: Jewish Writers
Meet the Astrologer, Tarot Reader, and Musician: Mick Frankel of “The Deck of the Hebrew Letters”
Photo: Courtesy of Mick Frankel Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. Originally from Essex, I now live by the seaside in Lancashire. I’m a member of the St Annes Hebrew Congregation. My grandmother taught me to read Hebrew. The letters of the Aleph-Beis connect me to some of my earliest memories. […]
Meet the Author: Tammar Stein
Photo: Courtesy of Tammar Stein Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background? I’m the author of eight books for children of all ages. I’ve written everything from a board book with 12 words to novels for older young adults. My books have won the Middle East Book Award for children’s literature, […]
Meet the Author: Sylvia Rouss
Photo: Courtesy of Sylvia Rouss Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I grew up in California and first began writing for the children in my preschool class. As an early childhood educator for over 30 years, I was privileged to be the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in Jewish […]
Meet the Author: Marcia Berneger
Photo: Courtesy of Marcia Berneger Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m a retired teacher living with my husband and three crazy dogs in sunny Southern California. I have two wonderful sons. One is married and has given me an amazing grandson. Ori is almost fifteen months old and I […]
Meet the Author: Monique Polak
Photo: Courtesy of Monique Polak Photographer: John Fredericks Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born and raised in Montreal. My parents were immigrants from the Netherlands. My mum, who was Jewish, spent nearly two years in Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic. […]
*Product Review*: Hebrew 1 and 2 Workbooks by Inbal Amit
Reviewed by Miriam P. and the five-and-a-half-year-old Julie H. I spent the last weekend by the coast in County Kerry with my partner, John, and his wonderful family. Liam, his older brother, joined us for a visit together with his wife and their young daughter, Julie, giving me the perfect opportunity to review Inbal Amit’s […]
Meet the Author of Rebel Daughter: Lori Banov Kaufmann
Photo: Courtesy of Lori Banov Kaufmann Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I grew up in Charleston, South Carolina but moved up north to go to college and grad school. After graduation, my husband and I made Aliyah and I worked as a strategy consultant for high-tech companies. When I […]
Meet the Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Photo: Courtesy of Valerie Estelle Frankel Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m Valerie Estelle Frankel, author of 83 books so far. I’ve won a Dream Realm Award, an Indie Excellence Award, and a USA Book News National Best Book Award for my Henry Potty parodies, the first ones I […]
Meet the Author: Libi Astaire
Photo: Courtesy of Libi Astaire Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I grew up in Kansas, next door to Dorothy Gale and Toto too. (Just kidding.) My first love was the theatre and that journey took me from Kansas to London, where I studied acting, and then to New York, […]