title: Jewish Holiday Adventures
author:  Ethel Stein 
description: The author, Ethel Stein, is a former public school teacher. She taught for over twenty-five years in both the elementary and middle schools in Passaic and Clifton, New Jersey. Ms. Stein also taught Sunday school at her synagogue and has led junior congregations on special holidays. <br /><br />Ms. Stein has written stories for children's magazines, articles for travel magazines, and periodicals for senior citizens. <br /><br />The author is mother of three children (who often appear as characters in her stories) and grandmother of four boys. The illustrator of this book, Donna Kaye, is the author's daughter.
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  _THE DAY MIRIAM HIRSCH DISAPPEARED was the first short story I wrote. My son
  had been given a book called “THE JEWS OF CHICAGO” for a Bar Mitzvah present,
  and when I thumbed through the photographs, they resonated—especially the ones
  taken in Lawndale side during the ‘30s, a prosperous Jewish community on
  Chicago’s near west. Little did I know then that the story I wrote about those
  photos would become the “prequel” to my Ellie Foreman series. Or that the
  Ellie Foreman series would be the prequel to the Georgia Davis series. The
  following story, which won the Bouchercon short story contest in 1999, was
  first published in the Bouchercon Program book. It was later published in
  ANTHOLOGY TODAY, where it also won a contest, and in the now defunct FUTURES
  MAGAZINE. You can also find on audio at_[
  _www.sniplits.com_](http://www.sniplits.com) _._
  
  
  **THE DAY MIRIAM HIRSCH DISAPPEARED**
  
  
  The day Miriam Hirsch disappeared was so hot you could almost see the sidewalk
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