The Book of Life: Jewish Kidlit (Mostly)

The Book of Life, a Show About Jewish People and the Books We Read: episode 3 focuses on Jewish heroes of the Olympics, the civil rights movement, the art world, and even on Jewish superheroes.

Interviews with the winners of the 2006 Sydney Taylor Book Awards for Jewish children's literature, and a conversation with Andy Rubin, founder of the Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band.

This inaugural episode of The Book of Life, a show about Jewish people and the books we read, features: Eric Kimmel, author of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins CBI Youth Director Aley Sheer, reviewing Craig Taubman's new CD The Hanukkah Lounge Author Rebecca Tova Ben-Zvi on her new book, Four Sides, Eight Nights CBI's Rabbi Richard Agler, sharing a page from his personal "Book of Life" and a bonus track! Rabbi Robert Silvers sings "Thank God I'm a Jewish Boy!" (also available on the CD Now That