JCC MetroWest Book Group presents, Jessica Anya Blau's, "Mary Jane" In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane Dillard takes a summer job nannying for a Jewish psychiatrist’s family in a gone-wild household utterly unlike the Presbyterian, straight-arrow, conservative one she knows. The Cones are blunt, messy, loud, affectionate, and are attempting to rehabilitate a heroin-addicted rock […]

JCC MetroWest Book Group presents, Joshua Henkin   Join Joshua Henkin, virtually, as he talks about his latest book, "Morningside Heights". When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with and […]

Join author Rachel Cerrotti, virtually, as she discusses her book "We Share the Same Sky", a granddaughter's decade-long journey to retrace her grandmother's wartime escape and weave together the thin threads of family history. "We Share the Same Sky" weaves together the stories of these two young women, Hana as a refugee who remains one […]

Yom Hashoah event featuring author Joshua Greene Join us as author Joshua Greene, shares Siggi B. Wilzig's astonishing journey from Auschwitz survivor and penniless immigrant to wall street legend in his book "Unstoppable". FREE REGISTER FOR EVENT

Annual Molly Burack Author/Lecture Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America’s most iconic news show—60 Minutes in his new book Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60-Minutes. Based on decades of access and experience, in his book, Ira Rosen takes readers behind closed doors […]

JCC MetroWest Book Group presents, Max Gross   Join us for a presentation from the author of "The Lost Shtetl", Max Gross. What if there was a town that history missed? For decades, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, […]

JCC MetroWest Book Group presents, Alison Hammer   Following her acclaimed debut novel, You and Me and Us, Alison Hammer offers a deeply moving story of family and identity. When a DNA test reveals a long-buried secret, a woman must look to the past to understand her mother and herself. FREE 12 PM - Book […]

JCC MetroWest Book Group presents, Mitchell Kaplan   Join author Mitchell James Kaplan discuss his new book, "Rhapsody". One evening, in 1924, Katherine "Kay" swift, the restless but loyal society wife of wealthy banker, James Warburg and a serious pianist who longs for recognition, attends a concert. The piece: "Rhapsody in Blue". The composer: a […]