• Authors & Ideas Series

    JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Cathleen Schine

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Cathleen Schine, "Kunstlers in Paradise" For years, clever and glamorous Mamie Künstler, 93, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with her housekeeper and gigantic […]

  • Authors & Ideas Series

    JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Buzzy Jackson

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Buzzy Jackson, "To Die Beautiful" Based on the true story of Hannie Schaft, known to the Nazis as the Girl with Red Hair. It’s 1940 and Hannie Schaft […]

  • Authors & Ideas Series

    JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Andrew Ridker

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Andrew Ridker, "Hope" Ridker’s slashing satire of upper-middle-class life turns on the foibles of a seemingly charmed Jewish family in Brookline, Mass. Scott Greenspan is a well-respected […]

  • Authors & Ideas Series

    JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Jennifer Rosner

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Jennifer Rosner, "Once We Were Home" Among the tragedies of WWII were the Jewish children separated from their families, given new names, and instructed to follow new […]

  • Authors & Ideas Series

    JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Peter Blauner

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Peter Blauner, "Picture in the Sand" Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, […]

  • Authors & Ideas Series

    JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Talia Carner

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Talia Carner, "The Boy with the Star Tattoo" Talia Carner's "The Boy with the Star Tattoo" is an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love […]

  • JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, "The Wolf Hunt" Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely and suspenseful exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a […]

  • JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Lynda Cohen Loigman

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Lynda Cohen Loigman, "The Love Elixer of Augusta Stern" "The Love Elixer of Augusta Stern" is a reminder that age doesn't change who we are, that second […]

  • JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Sara Goodman Confino

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Sara Goodman Confino, "Don't Forget To Write" When Marilyn Kreinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship […]

  • JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Lisa Barr

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw Set in 2005 Los Angeles and 1943 Poland, The Goddess of Warsaw is an enthralling tale of a legendary Hollywood screen […]

  • JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Samantha Greene Woodruff

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Samantha Greene Woodruff, The Trade Off Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street market’s stocks and […]

  • Book Group: Lihi Lapid

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Lihi Lapid, On Her Own Set between the eve of Passover and Israel’s Independence Day, On Her Own is a tense and immersive psychological read about two […]

  • Book Group: Zibby Owens

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Zibby Owens, Blank A wife, a mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a hilarious debut novel, Blank, about family, […]

  • Book Group: Sasha Vasilyuk

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Sasha Vasilyuk, Your Presence is Mandatory A riveting debut novel, based on real events, Your Presence is Mandatory is about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with […]

  • Book Group: Ayelet Tsabari

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Ayelet Tsabari, Songs for the Brokenhearted A Yemeni Israeli story of mothers and daughters, love and loss, and secrets untold, the novel shines a light on a […]

  • Book Group: Emily Matchar

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Emily Matchar, In the Shadow of the Greenbriar Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbriar Resort. Long a playground […]

  • Book Group: Alka Joshi

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Alka Joshi, Six Days in Bombay This sweeping novel takes readers from Bombay to Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter's […]

  • Book Group: Allegra Goodman

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Allegra Goodman, Isola Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian, accusing her of […]

  • Book Group: Cynthia Weiner

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Cynthia Weiner, A Gorgeous Excitement “A Gorgeous Excitement,” Freud's term for cocaine, is central to this 1980s coming-of-age tale about a Jewish teenager attempting to fit into […]

  • Book Group: Esther Chehebar

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Esther Chehebar, Sisters of Fortune The Cohen sisters—Fortune, the middle sister, preparing for her upcoming arranged marriage; Nina, the 26-year-old eldest, struggling with single life and newfound […]

  • Book Group: Mary Morris

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Mary Morris, The Red House Laura's mother, Viola, vanished 30 years ago, leaving behind unsettling paintings of a red house, all containing the phrase, "I will not […]

  • Book Group: Sam Sussman

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Sam Sussman, Boy From the North Country When Evan, twenty-six, is called home to the secluded farmhouse where he was raised, he doesn't yet know his mother […]

  • Book Group: Laney Katz Becker

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Laney Katz Becker, In the Family Way Set in the 1960's before Roe vs Wade, this is a poignant and powerful novel about the friendship between a […]

  • Book Group: Tod Lending

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Tod Lending, The Umbrella Maker's Son During the week of Yom Hashoah, we'll discuss this powerful, heart-wrenching novel that follows a young Polish Jew through his incredible […]

  • Book Group: Allison Esptein

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Allison Epstein, Fagin the Thief A thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London's most gifted […]

  • Book Group: Jessica Berger Gross

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Jessica Berger Gross, Hazel Says No When Hazel Blum's father gets a tenured job at a prestigious college, she and her family relocate from Brooklyn to a […]

  • Book Group: Tovah Mirvis

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Tovah Mirvis, We Would Never Inspired by a true story, "We Would Never' is an "intellectual mystery-part whodunit, part whydunit, and heavy on the complexities of famuly […]