A warm birthday celebration turns tense as old wounds rise to the surface in the shadow of the Holocaust. Extract from The Castle Builders by Menucha Chana Levin I enjoy my party. We are a small crowd, just David, Rina and the grandchildren, Rina’s parents Nissim and Malka and two of my closest friends Miriam…

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Looking back on our lives, we can sometimes see extraordinary turning points, where everything suddenly and unexpectedly changed. Esther Leah Avner shares a spell-binding memory of the moment that changed her life at age 19.  Excerpted from her memoir, Live, Learn, Teach: The Story of a Life I was fifteen when I first heard of…

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Many years have passed and some things have changed, and others have stayed the same… Faige Herman shares childhood memories of life in Williamsburg in the ’40s. Excerpted from her memoir, Girl for Sale Every Thursday night, my mother scrubbed and waxed our linoleum-covered floors.  After she had polished them, she made sure they remained clean…

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MavenMall’s Yom Tov Gift for You: A free collection of writing by some of the finest Jewish women writers around today! Perfect for Yom Tov reading.

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Batya Ruddell shares her diary of tension and triumph written during her battle with Hepatitis C that required her to undergo a form of chemotherapy. This is an excerpt from her book The View from Ninveh Sunday, October 25, 2009 9:00 a.m. Well, this is it. We’re on our way. Baruch Hashem, I got my brachah…

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This Month of Av marks six years since the destruction of Gush Katif. Former Gush Katif resident Shifra Shomron relives her memories as a high-school student during that anguished period.

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Reyna Simnegar shares some poignant memories and exotic kosher dessert recipes from her book, Persian Food from the Non-Persian Bride. Enter to WIN a copy of this delectable kosher cookbook.

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The Ruby Spy Ring, by Libi Astaire, takes us back to a bygone era of young Jewish ladies with good manners and a mystery to solve. Read a review and WIN a signed copy of this novel.

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Efrat Libfroind’s exquisite and mouth-watering recipes have taken the kosher cooking world by storm, and the release of her first book Kosher Elegance is the talk of the town. She has generously shared a taste of the recipes from the book with MavenMall readers and given you the chance to win a free copy!

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