January 2021
Book Club
Join us for the first book club of 2021 when we will be discussing Call It Sleep by Henry Roth. Jerry Levin will lead the discussion. Call It Sleep is a great book about life on the lower East Side as seen through the eyes of David, a young Jewish boy trying to fit in a world that is Jewish on one hand, yet becoming more American on the other. The Zoom invite will be emailed in advance of this…
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Shabbat Schmooze and Learn –
Echoes of the Past in our Current Pandemic - Karen Gervitz is a Professor of English at Seton Hall University and the daughter of our members, Susan and Steve Bloom. Her talk reveals the buried origins of the American response to Covid-19, from the way we talk about it to the way we distribute vaccine. It explains how an ancient Greek historian, a medieval poet, and some very angry tea drinkers in Boston shaped our response to the current pandemic. The…
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