Controversial Podcast: Shmelf the Hanukkah Elf

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The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Rabinowitz, features a lively critique of the controversial new picture book Shmelf the Hanukkah Elf by Greg Wolfe.

You can hear the podcast online at: http://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2016/09/shmelf-hanukkah-elf.html:

The new picture book Shmelf the Hanukkah Elf by Greg Wolfe was brought to my attention by Rachel Kamin and Kathy Bloomfield during the 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries conference in Charleston, SC. They had some major concerns about the message it conveys to young readers, and they were so impassioned about it that I sat down with them to record their conversation. I later contacted author Greg Wolfe to invite his feedback, but to date have received no response.
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