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Bracha Goetz is the Harvard-educated author of 41 Jewish children’s books and a candid memoir for adults about her journey to joy in Judaism. Her newest picture book release is “The Courage Club,” and you can find all her books at www.goetzbookshop.com and in your local Jewish bookstore.
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By Bracha Goetz
The twenty-fifth makes her remember, Because it's Kislev - not December. She almost fell, like Hellenists of old. The twenty-fifth makes her remember, Because it's Kislev - not December. Once she, too, chose tinsel, not the gold.
By Bracha Goetz
This book deals with the great challenge we all face in grasping what is currently happening to the Jewish people. The author demonstrates the rare talent and sensitivity needed to lift the veils of confusion and elucidate both our spiritual and historical connection with the land of Israel from ancient times through the present.
By Bracha Goetz
The Babylonians deliberately took the smartest teens as captives to train them for service in the king’s court, with assimilation as a prerequisite.
By Bracha Goetz
Anti-Semites see G-d protecting the Jewish people even more than we do. And when that shield of overwhelming miraculous protection is removed from us for some reason – even just for a moment in one synagogue in Pittsburgh – we see what transpires.
By Bracha Goetz
Reflecting further on the Kavanaugh-Ford hearings, I realized that it gives us a glimpse of the hearings awaiting all of us after we leave this world.
By Bracha Goetz
Wikipedia says it this way: In 2009, Guiness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all time. Her list of awards includes two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards as of 2010. Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. So, didn’t she almost have it all?
By Bracha Goetz
Suzanne called me today about the newest humiliation she had just experienced. At the gym, a personal trainer loudly reprimanded her for trying to help another person with some equipment, and he did so in front of nearly everybody who was working out there.
July 10, 2026 
