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. […]
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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, […]
Meet the Writer and Producer: Jere Silber
Photo: Courtesy of Jere Silber Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I am an accomplished writer, producer, and director with over forty-five years of experience working on radio, television, and theatrical productions. I was an award-winning camera operator on the show News Counterpoint on cable television. I won a Monty Award […]
Meet The Cookbook Author: Estee Raviv
Photo: Courtesy of Estee Raviv Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My name is Estee Raviv. Born in Israel, I grew up on the sandy shores of the Mediterranean Sea. When I was young, meals were influenced by flavors of the Middle East, along with my Jewish heritage and the Eastern European traditions […]