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If you're the first person to name the city (One guess! No spitballing!) where I've placed this ad for Haggadahpalooza - and I do believe there are enough visual clues to lead...

Toronto people of earth! I'm coming to your town and I'd love to see you there!

https://www.beby.org/event/bookmarch8

I have created a calendar on my website, to track all my past and future book talks:

Events | Martin Bodek

I’m busy, and I’m thankful, but I want to be busier.

Do you know, attend,...

Seder table for 8? I might be able to help you next year.

Seder table for 7? I totally got you covered.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. I am honoring it by guesting later on "The Making of Me" podcast.

In truth, if I was to trace "The making of me" as an author, all roads point...

Just two days after launch, Haggadahpalooza has already earned #1 Amazon new release stickers in the...

Do you like Passover? Do you like music? Do you like song parodies? Do you want a haggadah the family can pass around, and everyone laughs and enjoys themselves immensely? Do...

Podcast #23.

It was a grand pleasure speaking with Amy Shannon on her Amy's Bookshelf Reviews Podcast. We didn't get into the details of Zaidy's War story itself. Rather, we...

2025 was a wonderful year of bringing my Zaidy's War and Haggadah book talks to different kinds of venues. It was mostly on the podcast side.

2026 looks to be even busier, and I...

I have created a calendar on my website, to track all my past and future book talks:

Events | Martin Bodek

I’m busy, and I’m thankful, but I want to be busier.

Do you know, attend,...

While I sit on shpilkes, waiting for Haggadahpalooza to spider out to retailers, I feel like I need to DO something with the book while I wait.

How about this?: I don't like...

OMG, look what arrived. One lengthy quality control check, cover to cover, and we are go for launch.

When I was a wee little lad, I was enamored with running - particularly the long-distance variety (and Terry Fox and Grete Waitz and Alberto Salazar and Yiannis Kouros) - and...

In this week's The Jewish Link - Expanded Edition, you will find a glorious, illuminating article about Liesbeth Heenk at Amsterdam Publishers, who brought my book Zaidy's War...

The what? Yes. This is neither clip, nor reel, nor segment. Nay, this is a full-on exploration and explanation of The Emoji Haggadah, and it feels, looks, plays, and presents as...

I had the loveliest time presenting Zaidy's War to the Chabad of the Five Towns Smile on Seniors, at the Levi Yitzchak Library.

They were an invested, attentive group of lively...

I honored Yom HaShoah in the most appropriate way available to me: by presenting Zaidy's War to the Active Seniors group of the JCC of Northern NJ, in the Kol Dorot building.

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So I turned The Big 5-0 over the 2nd days of Passover.

I spent it with my family, who showered me with cards and gifts and love. It was wonderful.

Also wonderful was the lead-up...

Hi! This Pre-passover season has gone quite swimmingly for The Dad Jokes Haggadah, in various forms. To wit:

https://martinbodekbooks.com/books/the-dad-jokes-haggadah

Plus, Gil...