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October 2020
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM Author Talk + Q&A with Judy Gold In Yes I Can Say That, comedy veteran Judy Gold argues that "no one has the right to tell comics what they can or cannot joke about... Laughter is a unifier. It's the best medicine...” For Gold, nothing is more insidious than enforcing silence and repressing jokes—the job of a comedian is to expose society's demons,…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM In Conversation with Emily Giffin, New York Times Bestselling Author A man with a mysterious past is asked to find a missing teenage girl in this shocking thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Run Away. Thirty years ago, Wilde was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past.…
November 2020
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM In Conversation with Nadia Bilchik, Local Media Personality, Author, and Noted Speaker Never Alone is a classic account of courage, integrity, and belonging. In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist for the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, was arrested. He spent nine years as a political prisoner, convicted of treason against…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM In Conversation with Holly Firfer, CNN Journalist A funny “What to Expect When You're Expecting” for the aging woman, acclaimed journalist and Baby Boomer Joan Lunden delves into various phases of aging in her most candid and revealing book yet. Lunden takes the dull and depressing out of aging, replacing it with wit and humor. Whether you’re in…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. Everyone knows Yogi Berra. The American icon was the backbone of the New York Yankees through ten World Series Championships, managed the National League Champion New York Mets in 1973, and had an ingenious way with words that remains an indelible part of our lexicon. But no one knew him like his family did. My Dad, Yogi is Dale Berra's…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM Author Talk + Q & A with John Grishman Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom drama that showcases #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham at the height of his storytelling powers. In what may be the most personal and…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM Author Talk + Q & A with Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibowitz and Mark Oppenheimer REGISTER HERE Join authors Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibowitz and Mark Oppenheimer as they present the Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: An Unorthodox Guide to Everything Jewish Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, this unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covers culture, religion, history,…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM Webinar Author Talk + Q & A with author Michael Oren The Night Archer and Other Stories is a collection of startling short fiction by New York Times bestselling author and international statesman, Michael Oren. A medieval slave-turned-sultan, an alien who declines to visit Earth, a prophet who dares to ask “is God funny?” and a ghost who fears the…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. When Truth Is All You Have By the founder of the first organization in the United States committed to freeing the wrongly imprisoned, this is a riveting story of devotion, sacrifice, and vindication. Jim McCloskey was at a midlife crossroads when he met the man who would change his life. A former management consultant, McCloskey enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM With Special Guest Former Mossad Commandor Dani Limor Inspired the Netflix drama, The Red Sea Diving Resort! In the early 1980s, on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury resort opened for business. Catering to divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the guests know that the staff members were undercover spies,…
Virtual Book discussion followed by a conversation with author Jennifer Rosner. As World War II rages, a Polish mother hides with her young daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róza and her 5-year-old daughter, Shira, flee, seeking shelter in a neighbor’s barn. Hidden in the hayloft day and night, Shira struggles to stay still and quiet, as music pulses through her and the farmyard outside…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The tattered manuscript made international headlines. If early Christians believed Jesus was married, it would upend the 2,000-year history…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM In Conversation with Mara Davis, Local Atlanta Media Maven Michael Ian Black, A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son In a world in which the word masculinity often goes hand in hand with toxic, Black offers up a way forward for boys, men, and anyone who loves them. Part memoir, part advice book, A Better Man reveals…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM Webinar Author Talk + Q & A with author Michael Oren In Conversation with Harlan Coben, New York Times Bestselling Author In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach…
Help us celebrate and honor inspiring women in the MetroWest community in support of JCC MetroWest Terri Friedman and Joyce Goldstein Join us for a special tribute to Lois Lautenberg (z”l) and Maxine Myers (z”l) for their lifelong leadership to our MetroWest community REGISTER TODAY Zoom link to be sent by November 15, 2020 By supporting the Women of Valor event, you are honoring two inspiring women as well as supporting JCC MetroWest and ensuring that our community has…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. Music and Multi-Media Presentation! From the charming and wickedly funny co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems, and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more. Rachel Bloom has felt abnormal and out of place her whole life. In this exploration of what she thinks makes her "different,"…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. ZOOM Author Talk + Q & A with David Baldacci FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her sister Mercy clashes with military investigator John Puller's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy -- from which neither of them will escape unscathed. David Baldacci is a global #1 bestselling author, and one of the world's favorite storytellers. His…
December 2020
Virtual Book discussion followed by a conversation with author Rachel Beanland. In 1934 Atlantic City, a shocking tragedy results in three generations of the Adler family grappling with heartbreak, romance, and the weight of family secrets. Based on a true story and told in the vein of J. Courtney Sullivan’s Saints for All Occasions and Anita Diamant’s The Boston Girl, Beanland’s family saga is a breathtaking portrait of just how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones, and an uplifting portrayal…
January 2021
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…
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…
