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Winter 2025 Book Club Picks

Winter 2025 Book Club Picks

Browse the books we’re reading right now—a carefully selected list by authors we're loving right now—and read along with us!

The Jewish Women’s Archive documents Jewish women’s stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.

Sarah Leavitt and Jonathan Edelman, Capital Jewish Museum
LGBTQ Jews in the Federal City

In this episode of Can We Talk?, step into the history of queer Jews in Washington, DC, as Nahanni tours the Capital Jewish Museum’s current exhibit, “LGBTJews in the Federal City.”
Rebecca Gratz Civil War Letter to Anna Maria Boswell Shelby Gratz—September 12, 1861.

From the Archive

by Nina Warnke and
Rachael Davis

Over 800 pieces of Rebecca Gratz’s personal correspondence are reunified on Gratz College’s Grayzel Digital Platform. 
Melissa Felderman Headshot

7 Questions For..

by Emma Breitman

Melissa Felderman is a ceramicist and industrial designer whose work serves up aesthetic Judaica for today's design sensibilities.
Keshet Pride 2024
LGBTQ+ Jewish Stories
LGBTQ+ Jewish activists have created tremendous change in many parts of the Jewish world over the last several decades, even in the face of resistance and backlash.
Fight Like A Girl Protest Sign

Rethinking My Position In the Jewish Community

by Marlo Dabareiner

As I read my classmate’s message to me, I was reminded of the same debate that I had been having in my head about what feminism should or shouldn’t look like.

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Devorah Baron looking at the camera
Devorah Baron

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Empress Seble Wongel of Ethiopia
Death of Empress of Ethiopia Seble Wongel

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