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ROSES IN JUNE
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TIMOTHY M. KOLMAN
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Schadenfreude by Rebecca Schuman
The first book by Slate columnist Schuman is
described by the Jewish Book Council as
“vivid and rollicking” as she takes the reader
through various stages of her life. It also
boasts an abnormally long subtitle (Me, the
Germans, and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate
Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They
Have Words For) and promises a fun and funny read that plays
with language and will be perfect for your summer vacation.

NONFICTION There are also plenty of nonfiction and even academic books that
are attention-grabbing. Here are a few:
STEPHEN STAHL
Ordinary People: Extraordinary Lessons
— Leadership Insights from Everyday
Encounters by Karen Friedman
Former 6ABC Action News reporter Karen
Friedman’s column in the Philadelphia
Business Journal, Perspective on People,
provided inspiration for Ordinary People
(anyone else singing John Legend?), a
compilation of anecdotal lessons from every-
day life. Learn about different people and
how varied perspectives can change the way
we see everyday moments.

Skewed: A Critical Thinker’s Guide
to Media Bias by Larry Atkins
In the age of fake news (unlike this article), getting news from
myriad avenues and advocacy news networks pushing competing
points of view, Atkins — a Jewish journalism professor at Temple
University and Arcadia University — shows you how to separate
the facts, give you the tools to critique the media and see both
sides of an issue.

In 1967, on the eve of Israel’s Six-Day
War, a family that fl ed Nazi persecution
for refuge in England fi nds their teenage
son a victim of anti-Semitism and
bullying at school. Will the trauma of
one generation be suff ered by the next?
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Lifespan Development,
6th edition edited by Dr. Allison Buskirk-Cohen
OK, so a textbook may not be the first type you think of when pack-
ing your beach bag, but Buskirk-Cohen, chair of Delaware Valley
University’s psychology department and member of Shir Ami in
Newtown, is sure to open your mind. The textbook presents readers
with two different perspectives on controversial issues related to
lifespan development. One such issue that may grab your attention
is religion in early adulthood and looking at whether religion and
spirituality mean the same thing to today’s college students.

Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud
After the Humanities by Mira Beth Wasserman
Rabbi Wasserman, a professor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College, delves into the Avoda Zara, “arguably the Talmud’s most
scandalous tractate, to uncover the hidden architecture of this
classic work of Jewish religious thought.” Again, not exactly a
beach read, but Wasserman proposes a new way of
reading the Talmud that ties it to the humanities.

Happy reading! l
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