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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. 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…
Early Childhood Center & Friends • Havdalah with Bobby Beetcut Early Childhood staff, families, and senior friends are invited to join together for Havdalah with Bobby Beetcut. Get your candles, any candle, and something nice to smell like cloves or a cinnamon stick. Join Zoom Here For more information, contact Leslie Fleischman at 973-530-3430 or [email protected]
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
Immigrant housewives and the riots that shook New York City. In response to a precipitous rise in the price of kosher meat and the perception they were being gouged, thousands of immigrant Jewish women took to the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1902, intending to shut down every kosher butcher shop in New York City's heavily Jewish quarter until prices came down. Books are available for purchase at Words Book Store. This event is included in The J…
New Jersey Jewish Film Festival Extra! Event Live Zoom discussion with Filmmaker Michelle Paymar and Professor Gary Rendsburg – Thursday, February 4 at 4pm The documentary will be available for complimentary viewing on your own between February 2 at 5 PM eastern time and February 4 at 11 PM eastern time. Once you register, you will receive an email on February 1 or 2 with the link to screen the film. REGISTER HERE DOCUMENTARY Director: Michelle Paymar 2018…
Join us for a wonderful concert of Great Melodies with Rhonda Danet! REGISTER HERE This event is included in The J Your Way Virtual Membership
Great Presidents Revisited: Washington & Lincoln REGISTER HERE This event is included in The J Your Way Virtual Membership
REGISTER HERE 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…
Please Register in Advance This event is included in The J Your Way Virtual Membership Life-changing wisdom from one of Judaism’s most powerful texts The Haggadah, which can be found in homes around the world, has guided Jewish families and friends through Pesach celebrations for millennia. Fittingly, ‘Haggadah’ is the Hebrew word for telling -- and Mark Gerson shows us what it tells us: how Jewish teachings, ideas, and principles can help each of us to live a happier, better,…
JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS VIRTUAL SERIES Each month, we bring you the best and brightest in Jewish Authors & Ideas—virtually. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need In Conversation with Kristen Welker, Co-Anchor, "Weekend Today” and NBC News Chief White House Correspondent ZOOM + Q & A In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in…
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…
