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'The Passover Protocols': An excerpt of an Israeli historical-espionage thriller

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By Ellen Frankel
| The Jerusalem Post Verified
Israeli agent Maya Rimon takes on the dark world of white supremacy and antisemitism, with encounters with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, white nationalists, Russian conspiracists, and the mob. The Passover Protocols, Book 3 is the latest in The Jerusalem Mystery Series by author Ellen Frankel.
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Excerpt: Mind Over Batter

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By Ellen Frankel
| Jewish Book Council
No-Bake Cashew ​“Cheese­cake” Serves 10 3 cups [420 g] raw cashews 11/2 cups [210 g] raw almonds 1/4 tsp fine sea salt, plus a pinch for the crust 2 cups [300 g] pit­ted Med­jool dates 21/2 tsp vanil­la extract 2/3 cup [145 g] coconut oil, melted 1/2 cup [120 ml] plus 1 tsp agave nectar 4 Tbsp fresh lemon juice 2 cups [240 g] straw­ber­ries (fresh or thawed if frozen) 1 tsp chia seeds My sis­ter Mar­gaux is a pow­er­house in the kitchen.
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72nd National Jewish Book Awards Remarks: Ellen Frankel

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By Ellen Frankel
| Jewish Book Council
On March 1, 2023, we had the hon­or of cel­e­brat­ing the 72nd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award win­ners at Bohemi­an Nation­al Hall. Over the next few weeks, we will be pub­lish­ing the remarks of the win­ners who spoke at this cel­e­bra­to­ry din­ner. Ellen Frankel is the win­ner of the Men­tor­ship Award in Hon­or of Car­olyn Star­man Hessel. Men­tor­ing is a rec­i­p­ro­cal process, as much about receiv­ing as giv­ing.
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Disrupting Judaism: Modern Practices in the Making

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By Ellen Frankel
| Jewish Book Council
Judaism isn’t only being dis­rupt­ed by our times. It also dis­rupts us, chal­leng­ing us to con­tin­ue the unfold­ing cre­ation of the world. How? My book out­lines eleven core prin­ci­ples that can serve to help each of us to become a spir­i­tu­al men­sch. I sug­gest sim­ple prac­tices, some tra­di­tion­al and oth­ers brand new, to help us bring an aware­ness, a kavanah–inten­tion­al­i­ty – into our dai­ly exis­tence.
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Mister Marvel: A Conversation with Danny Fingeroth About Stan Lee and His Jewish Influences

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By Will Eisner, Roy Schwartz, Ellen Frankel
| Jewish Book Council
Skip to main content Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, found­ed in 1943, is the longest-run­n­ing orga­ni­za­tion devot­ed exclu­sive­ly to the sup­port and cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox. Roy Schwartz writes about pop cul­ture for The For­ward and CNN​.com. His work has appeared in New York Dai­ly News, Phi­los­o­phy Now, and IGN, among oth­ers. He has taught at CUNY and is a for­mer writer-in-res­i­dence fel­low at the New York Pub­lic Library.
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When the Outsider Comes Back Inside: Writing an Israeli Mystery Series as an American Author

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By Ellen Frankel, Roy Schwartz
| Jewish Book Council
Want­ed: Detective. Loca­tion: Jerusalem. Gen­der: Female. Required skills: Must think out­side the box, like a stranger in a strange land. To be a detec­tive requires play­ing the role of a for­eign­er in a new coun­try. Effec­tive sleuths must notice anom­alies, incon­sis­ten­cies, square pegs in round holes, and peo­ple and things out of place. They need to behave as though they are from anoth­er plan­et — like they are per­pet­u­al out­siders, delib­er­ate­ly off-balance.
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'Deadly Scrolls': A fatal encounter with history - review

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By Abigail Klein Leichman, Ellen Frankel
| The Jerusalem Post Verified
“Set in modern Jerusalem and among the desert ruins of Qumran, this desperate hunt for an ancient treasure scroll pits a female Israeli intelligence agent against a religious fanatic hell-bent on bringing about the End of Days.” Thus reads the publisher’s blurb about The Deadly Scrolls. It sounds like the recipe for a good thriller, and for the most part it is just that.
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The Plot of a Mystery Hidden in a Dead Sea Scroll

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By Ellen Frankel, Avi Katz
| Jewish Book Council
So here I was on a summer’s day, reclin­ing in a pon­toon boat on a beau­ti­ful Maine lake, sur­round­ed by my kids and grand­kids, when my cell phone rang. It was a promi­nent Qum­ran schol­ar whose work I’d edit­ed at the Jew­ish Pub­li­ca­tion Soci­ety. ​“You know,” he said, ​“there ought to be a nov­el about the Dead Sea Scrolls. But I don’t write fiction.” From this I sur­mised that he was invit­ing me to coau­thor such a book with him.
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Birkat Hagomel: A Blessing For Coming through Trauma — and Prevailing | My Jewish Learning

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By Neal Gold, Ellen Frankel
| My Jewish Learning Verified
The Jewish blessing known as Birkat Hagomel is recited by people who have survived a traumatic, potentially life-threatening episode. One who wishes to recite (“bench,” in Yiddish) Birkat Hagomel is first called up for an aliyah to the Torah.
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