Yom Kippur

Let’s get to know one another. Come to Women’s Rap via Zoom. A link will emailed one week before the meeting. RSVP Roberta Frank.

    Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner – Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a... Read More

                  Jewish Journeys Committee  SAVE the DATE SUNDAY JULY 11 at 9:30 AM          For a multimedia Zoom presentation on                  Jewish Calcutta through Music and Memories                    ... Read More

  Susan and Art Zuckerman will do a virtual presentation of Russian Brooklyn, Coney Island and Brighton Beach, as well as other areas in Brooklyn that might be of interest to our congregation. This will be open to the public as well as our members. Their tours are fun and educational and the Zuckermans, who... Read More

A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe... Read More

No epidemic has equaled the devastation of the Bubonic Plague, which decimated between one-third and three-quarters of Europe’s population in the Middle Ages and continued to flare up in destructive pockets for centuries after. In Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks eerily captures every aspect of life during the plague the gruesomely painful death, the speed... Read More

Inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world. In 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jungle of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone, fascinating, magnetic and famous for her controversial work studying South Pacific tribes, her intelligent and aggressive husband Fen, and Andrew... Read More

Megha Majumdar’s excellent debut novel begins with a pile-on, the kind of digital public shaming… . A young Muslim woman named Jivan reads on her phone about a terrorist attack at a railway station near the slum in Kolkata where she lives. More than a hundred people were killed in the blaze. She posts a... Read More