Celebrating 10 Years of OBOJC Authors: What’s Cooking with Nomi Eve
Author Name: Nomi Eve OBOJC Book Title: Henna House Have you published another book since your OBOJC book? I am working on a new novel, set in Europe during the Holocaust. What book(s) are you reading now that you would like to recommend to our community? I just read The Forgers by Bradford Morrow. I loved it! It is a literary gothic thriller. Not at all Jewish-themed. I read widely and love all different genres. Please share your memories about OBOJC and what the experience meant to you. What can I say? I LOVE OBOJC! Because of OBOJC, I met extraordinary people [...]
Breaking Barriers with the Little Gate Crasher
By Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, Director, Whole Community Inclusion Every year, Jewish Learning Venture’s “Whole Community Inclusion” shares a number of programs during February in recognition of Jewish Disability Awareness & Inclusion Month (JDAIM). Jewish Disability Awareness & Inclusion Month is a unified international initiative during the month of February to raise disability awareness and support efforts to foster inclusion in Jewish communities worldwide. This year, we are launching a new initiative called JDAIM Shabbat Across Philadelphia and are asking every synagogue in our area to dedicate one Shabbat service to disability inclusion issues through a D’var Torah, special speaker or simply [...]
Celebrating 10 Years of OBOJC Authors: What’s Cooking with Michael Lavigne
Author Name: Michael Lavigne OBOJC Book Title: The Wanting Have you published another book since your OBOJC book? If so, what is the title? Can you briefly describe the book? If you have another book due out soon, please tell us about that one and the estimated publication date. Yes. My newest book has just been published. It’s called The Heart of Henry Quantum, and I wrote it under a pen name: Pepper Harding. I guess I wanted an alter ego of my own. It’s pub date was October 2016, from Gallery Books, a division of Simon and Schuster. I [...]