Kerry Olitzky

Oct 23, 2024 | jewishchronicle.org | Kerry Olitzky |Deborah Cohen |Tracy Newman |Stacey Dressen McQueen

“An Etrog From Across the Sea,” by Kerry Olitzky and Deborah Bodin Cohen, illustrated by Stacey Dressen McQueenSet in 1729 and inspired by Jewish merchant and trader Luis Moises Gomez, this story follows his travel to Corsica. There, he finds spectacular etrogs. In a letter, he writes that he will bring one home to America for his family to use for Sukkot. The trip takes longer than he anticipated. But great news! He arrives just in time for the holiday.

Jul 23, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Shira Atik |Kerry Olitzky |Devorah Omer |Aviel Basil

Chris Barash and Aviel Basil’s new pic­ture book is nar­rat­ed by a blind child who encoun­ters his sur­round­ings through touch, sound, smell, and taste. The author and illus­tra­tor con­vey that the narrator’s blind­ness does not keep him from enjoy­ing Shab­bat with the peo­ple in his life. Braille accom­pa­nies the print­ed words. The book’s unpre­ten­tious tone does not dimin­ish its inno­v­a­tive inclusivity.

Jul 2, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Kerry Olitzky |Mariia Kolker |Rachel Stock Spilker

Review By – July 8, 2024 The Sis­ters Z is an illus­trat­ed adap­ta­tion of the bib­li­cal sto­ry of the daugh­ters of Zelophe­had. Their father dies while the Jews are trav­el­ing through the desert on the way to the Promised Land, and they choose to stay with one anoth­er and make a life togeth­er. In those days, prop­er­ty was award­ed only to male mem­bers of a fam­i­ly.

May 31, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Nathan Weissler |Kerry Olitzky |Mariia Kolker

This is an inspir­ing book about a wide vari­ety of Jew­ish indi­vid­u­als who made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to their com­mu­ni­ties as well as to soci­ety at large. While some are more well known than oth­ers, the book com­mu­ni­cates that they are all impor­tant, each in their own way.

May 16, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Marc Katz |Kerry Olitzky |Stuart M. Matlins

For decades, Rab­bi Lar­ry Hoff­man has guid­ed rab­bini­cal and can­to­r­i­al stu­dents at Hebrew Union Col­lege, prob­ing them to think more deeply about litur­gy, the­ol­o­gy, Jew­ish his­to­ry, and how these dis­ci­plines might be trans­lat­ed to the layper­son.