Born in Philadelphia, Leslie Kimmelman attended Middlebury College. She is an author and editor of children’s books, many of which deal with Jewish subjects. Among other honors, Kimmelman received the 2000 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Young Readers award for her book, Dance, Sing, Remember.
Brooklyn-born Paul Yalowitz is an illustrator and author. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Hartford. He has illustrated thirteen children’s books and is now writing and illustrating his own stories. Yalowitz teaches illustration at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.
Song at the Sea (Exodus 15), Leningrad Codex, 1009 CE. The photo shows the first fourteen verses of the poem (Exodus 15:1–14) and a few prose verses from the end of the preceding chapter. The text of…
I spent five years at “Lechem Erez” in Herzliya. During those years, we created at “Lechem Erez” a simple cuisine inclined to use herbs and dwarf leaves, balady vegetables and local fruits, fresh meat…