Heidi Rabinowitz is host of the long-running The Book of Life podcast, which discusses Jewish children’s literature, and she is the children’s librarian at B’nai Israel Synagogue in Boca Raton, Florida. Rabinowitz provided us with books that are appropriate throughout a reader’s childhood all the way up through adulthood, and even in our brief conversation, I learn more about the Jewish people than I had ever known before.
I ask Rabinowitz why it was important for a synagogue to have a librarian. “They have several hundred preschoolers who spend morning, noon, and night there,” she says. “I don’t have to tell you how important reading is and how important modeling a love of reading is. Then, of course, in a synagogue, it also brings in the element of Jewish learning and modeling the
