Posts tagged "Laurel Snyder"
The Longest Night:
An Interview With Laurel Snyder
Laurel Snyder's children's book "The Longest Night" is a retelling of the story of Exodus from the perspective of one of the Israelite children living in Egypt.
Reading Widely: Our Recent Favorites
Some of the best religion and media reads from around the webs this week.
Kosher Enough
By Peter Bebergal
In April 2009, at the peak of the Swine Flu scare, Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman of Israel urged people to refer to the virus as the Mexican Flu, because, as we all know, pigs aren’t kosher. While both insulting and at its face absurd, Litzman’s request brings to the surface what...
