Penny Schwartz

Penny Schwartz is a JTA correspondent based in Boston. She has been published in the Boston Globe, The Times of Israel, JewishBoston.com, WBUR’s TheARTery, and Hadassah Magazine.

From Penny Schwartz

Culture

New Passover children’s books include a mystery, Obama’s White House seder and a graphic novel from writer Dara Horn

Teen novel about women vampires wins a top prize for Jewish children’s books

Culture

New children’s books for Hanukkah channel 2024’s unusual Christmas convergence

Culture

This year’s High Holiday kids’ books are a celebration of Jewish diversity

United States

In a first, Massachusetts lawmakers delay budget fight to accommodate Passover observance

Religion

Inside 10 new haggadahs for 2024: America and Israel take their places at the seder table

Culture

A superhero, a scientist and a T. rex who scares his seder guests star in 2024’s new Passover children’s books

Obituaries

Ruth Fein, ‘absolute giant of the Boston Jewish community,’ dies at 96

Culture

Picture book about family that celebrates Rosh Hashanah and Lunar New Year nabs top Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book award

jewish book author

Obituaries

Boston writer Norm Finkelstein, whose YA books championed Jewish heroes, dies at 82

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