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January 2021
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. LISA LILLIEN, HUNGRY GIRL FAST & EASY ZOOM Webinar Live Cooking Demo + Q&A Hungry Girl creator Lisa Lillien’s #1 bestselling cookbooks and daily emails are all about keeping things easy, while serving up big portions of better-for-you food that tastes great! Today, more and more people are cooking at home, but they really want to spend less time doing…
IN HONOR OF DR. REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., JCC MetroWest invites you to a concert focusing on the music of African American Composers and Jewish Composers. Please feel free to invite your friends and family to this important exploration of music. REGISTER HERE FEATURED ARTISTS Mary Ferrillo, viola Francesca McNeeley, cello RESIDENT ARTIST Yvonne Chen, piano Violist Mary Ferrillo joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2019. She was previously an active freelancer, playing with the Philadelphia…
Virtual Book discussion followed by a conversation with author Jennifer Steil. In 1930s Vienna, a young girl named Orly flees with her musician parents in the wake of the annexation of Austria by Germany. The only country to which they are able to obtain visas is Bolivia, and Orly and her parents find themselves without money, friends, or any knowledge of Spanish in La Paz, which seems harsh and unsophisticated after the urbane world of Vienna. Orly adapts quickly to…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. Scott Turow is the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Trial, and an additional eleven bestselling works of fiction, including Testimony, Identical, Innocent, Presumed Innocent, and The Burden of Proof, and two nonfiction books, including One L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. Gabrielle Glaser, American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption In Conversation with Holly Firfer, CNN Journalist ZOOM Webinar + Q & A In 1961, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle fell in love and became pregnant. Despite Margaret’s intentions to marry her child’s father and her desperation to keep her baby boy, Margaret was coerced into signing…
February 2021
When Toby Fleishman's soon-to-be-ex-wife Rachel drops their two kids at his place a day early, it does more than interrupt his hyperactive, app-fueled sexual rebounding. It confirms what he's long known: that Rachel's demanding job makes her self-involved, or just not interested in their family. When she fails to pick them up as scheduled, things quickly get desperate. At a certain point, readers will note that maybe Toby loves being mad at Rachel a little too much, and suspect that,…
April 2021
Virtual Book discussion followed by a conversation with author Meg Waite Clayton. Clayton's novel is based on the real Dutch resistance fighter, "Tante Truus" Wijsmuller, who brought more than 10,000 Jewish children to safety before and during WWII in the Kindertransport. Clayton's enlightening, meticulously researched novel is enriched by a compelling cast of fictional characters. Stephan Neuman, son of a Jewish businessman in Austria, is a budding playwright at 17; his good friend, Zofie-Helene, is a math whiz. In chapters…
May 2021
Virtual Book discussion followed by a conversation with author Erica Katz. Alex Vogel, a high achiever with a Harvard Law School degree, accepts a dream job at a prestigious Manhattan law firm and promises her boyfriend that the job won’t change her. But Alex is seduced by the firm's money, energy, and her cocksure male colleagues. When something happens that reveals the dark reality of the firm, Alex comes to understand the ways women like her are told—explicitly and implicitly—how…
June 2021
Virtual Book discussion followed by a conversation with author Jan Eliasberg. TV writer-director Eliasberg's first novel was inspired by an unnamed female physicist, mentioned in a New York Times article from the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, who actually discovered nuclear fission. In 1945, Austrian physicist Hannah Weiss works in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Research secrets are being leaked from the top-secret nuclear lab to Germany, and Hannah is suspected as a spy. But the truth isn't…
