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 Wedding Planner and Designer of Magical Moments: Vanessa Ohayon of Vanessa Events

Photo: Courtesy of Vanessa Ohayon Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. “If you love the work you do, you will never work a day in your life!” I’m not sure who to credit that quote to, but I do know it was written for me! I am a designer of magical […]

Meet the Artist: Ketzia Schoneberg

Photo: Courtesy of Ketzia Schoneberg Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background.I grew up in San Francisco, the daughter of two artists and a 4th generation artist on my father’s side. I learned in the last few years that my great-grandfather had been a painter for the Romanian royal family’s carriages, before […]

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