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Jewish Journal Book award announced
Jonathan Kirsch
January 9, 2013
The making of a memorable book requires the skills of an alchemist. Every author starts with the raw material of his or her own experience and expertise, but it can take a certain secret ingredient — passion, vision, inspiration — to transform the dross into gold.
Readers finally get their say at JBook.com’s Peoples’ Choice Awards
Sue Fishkoff
October 26, 2006
Everything Is Illuminated,\” Jonathan Safran Foer\’s tragi-comic tale of a young American Jew\’s journey through Ukraine in search of his grandfather\’s roots, is the first winner of JBooks.com\’s People\’s Choice Award for the decade\’s best work of Jewish fiction at the Koret International Jewish Book Awards ceremony in San Francisco.
Revelation Led Rice to Pen Jesus Novel
Naomi Pfefferman
November 24, 2005
Although Rice\’s hero is meant to be every inch the Jesus of the Gospels (she says she\’s proselytizing), she views her book as a kind of antidote to Mel Gibson\’s \”The Passion of the Christ.\” She appreciated Gibson\’s film for its felicity to Catholic doctrine but disliked its portrayal of Jews.
The Circuit
Gaby Wenig
April 29, 2004
The paparazzi lined the halls of the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel on March 31 hoping for a glimpse of some of the A-List guests arriving to watch producer and Revolution Studios founder Joe Roth receive the Dorothy and Sherrill C. Corwin Human Relations Award at the American Jewish Committee\’s (AJC) annual dinner.
Joining ‘Gangs’ to Work With the Best
Gary Rosenblatt
January 2, 2003
When the now-legendary film director Martin Scorsese first discovered Herbert Asbury\’s book, \”Gangs of New York,\” in 1970 and decided to make it into a film, Rick Schwartz was a 2-year-old growing up in a modern Orthodox home in Teaneck, N.J.
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