January 27, 2021 9:00 am The late Jonathan Sacks was given the top award for Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times. (National Jewish Book Awards)
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(JTA) The final book published by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks before he died in November is the Jewish Book Council’s top book for 2020.
“Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times,” published in the United States in September, was awarded the Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year when the Jewish Book Council announced its 2020 National Jewish Book Awards on Wednesday.
Sacks shared his vision for a moral future one that he said would include an end to “cancel culture,” changes in Israeli policy and more encounters with people who hold different views in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last summer.
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The late Jonathan Sacks was given the top award for Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times. (National Jewish Book Awards)
The final book published by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks before he died in November is the Jewish Book Council’s top book for 2020.
“Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times,” published in the United States in September, was awarded the Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year when the Jewish Book Council announced its 2020 National Jewish Book Awards on Wednesday.
Sacks shared his vision for a moral future one that he said would include an end to “cancel culture,” changes in Israeli policy and more encounters with people who hold different views in an interview he gave last summer.
Top books, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults revealed at ALA Midwinter Virtual January 25, 2021
On January 25, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, digital media, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz awards at its Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits taking place virtually from Chicago.
A list of all the 2021 award winners follows:
John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature:
When You Trap a Tiger, written by Tae Keller, is the 2021 Newbery Medal winner. The book is published by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House.