MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2
7pm • Free • Off-site Location: Tower One, 18 Tower Lane, New Haven
Michael Tucker & Jill Eikenberry
Family Meals: Coming Together to Care For an Aging Parent
The acting couple's life-altering experience caring for an aging parent

Acting couple Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry found their lives dramatically changed as their family came together to care for Jill's aging and ill mother. This is about a family's journey - children becoming adults - an aged parent becoming a child - a husband and wife realizing that the direction of their life is never the issue - only that they're moving in that direction together.

Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry are perhaps best known for their portrayals of married attorneys in the long-running TV series, LA Law.

Co-sponsored by Tower One/Tower East, FCAN (Family Caregivers Access Network) Jewish Family Services, Jewish Home for the Aged

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
6:30pm • Free • PJ Library Event!
Debra Darvick
I Love Jewish Faces
Delightful pictures focusing on diversity, identity and today's Jewish reality.

In ninety-four words and thirty-plus photos, this book turns the image of the Yiddishe punim on its head. Darvick's delightful picture book mirrors today's emerging Jewish reality - a Jewish face is dark-haired and dark-eyed and blonde and blue-eyed. It affirms identity, embraces diversity, and celebrates Jewish life, all in one remarkable little book.

Debra Darvick is an award-winning essayist whose byline has appeared in Newsweek, Forward, Moment, Hadassah and the webzines jewishfamily.com, jbooks.com, OU.org.

Co-sponsored by PJ Library

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5
12:00 noon • Lunch & Learn Series • $18 includes lunch
Leora Tanenbaum
Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality
Stories of women who love their religion but not their 2nd-class status.

Leora Tanenbaum recounts the stories of women across the United States, who love their religion but hate their second-class status within it. More and more, religious women - Christian, Muslim, and Jewish - are declaring that they expect to be treated as equals in the religious sphere.

"Well-documented, engaging and encouraging book…..stands out from others in a similar vein by covering five different faith traditions."
Steve Young, Library Journal

Leora Tanenbaum is a member of an Orthodox Jewish community and is active in a partnership minyan in Manhattan.
For more information contact Ruth Gross: 203.387-2424 x310 or rgross@jewishnewhaven.org

Sponsored by: Women's Philanthropy of The Jewish Federation of
GNH/Women's Study Group, Department of Jewish Education, Young Adult
Division (YAD) in conjunction with Jewish Book Month

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5
7:00pm • Free
Martin Fletcher
Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World
The NBC news bureau chief describes his career as a war correspondent.

NBC news bureau chief in Tel Aviv, Fletcher offers a vivid account of his 30-year career as a war correspondent in the hot spots of the globe. A riveting portrayal of the suffering he has witnessed and the macho adrenaline junkies who make up his profession.

"For decades Martin Fletcher has been the gold standard of television war correspondents, and his new book does not disappoint."
Anderson Cooper, CNN

Award-winning journalist Martin Fletcher has covered every event of consequence in the Middle East and Africa for the last thirty years. Currently, he covers the Israel-Palestinian conflict from Gaza.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8
10:00am • Free
David Kushner
Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb

The story of a Jewish famliy that arranged for a black family to buy a home in the whites-only suburb of Levittown, PA, and the explosive reaction that transformed their lives, the nation and civil rights.

David Kushner is the author of Masters of Doom, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and an essayist on NPR. He teaches graduate journalism at NYU.

Sponsored by The Jewish Historical Society with support from Hyla and Barry Vine.

                                                     
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9
7:00pm • Free • Off-site Location: Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison (196 Durham Rd.)
Maggie Anton
Rashi's Daughter: Book lll- Rachel

The last of the trilogy about the daughters of the medieval Talmud scholar.

This is the dramatic final book in the epic historical trilogy about the lives and loves of the three daughters of the great medieval Talmud scholar Rashi whose daughters studied Talmud in a time when these sacred texts were forbidden to women.

"Anton vividly brings to life the world of eleventh-century France and a remarkable Jewish woman of dignity, passion, beauty and strength."
Jewish Book Network - Authors 2008-2009

Maggie Anton is the award-winning author of the series Rashi's Daughters. She currently studies Talmud and medieval history, and lives in Los Angeles.

Sponsored by the Shoreline Initiative of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
7:00pm • Free
Michael Wex
How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck): Secrets of the Good Life, from the most Unpopular People on Earth
Yiddish proverbs, current events, Talmud, movies and more.

Michael Wex has written a guide to being human regardless of your religion or beliefs. This fast-paced and entertaining adventure highlights the wisdom of the ages, utilizing Yiddish proverbs, current events, Talmudic stories, movies, television and more.

Michael Wex, author of the best-selling Born to Kvetch and Just Say Nu, is a novelist, professor, translator, lecturer, and performer. A major figure in the Yiddish revival, Wex has been hailed a "a Yiddish national treasure."

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12
7:00pm • Free
Dan Bahat
Jerusalem Stone and Spirit: 3000 Years of History and Art
Text and art focusing on the emotional and religious aspects of Jerusalem's historical development.

Bahat combines text and art in a complementary fashion, focusing on the emotional and religious components of Jerusalem's historical development.

"This unique view of the Holy City is a blend of compelling history and sumptuous visuals, featuring new scholarship and many previously unpublished images collected from all over the world."
Rizzoli Publishers

Dan Bahat, is one of Israel's leading archaeologists and the former chief archaeologist for Jerusalem. He is an expert on the Temple Mount, Herod's Palace, and the 1600-foot tunnel that runs under the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount.

Sponsored by the Jewish Federation.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15
2:00pm • Location: Congregation Or Shalom in Orange, (205 Old Grassy Hill Rd) • $5 includes tea
Visions and Voices: Writers at Work
Featuring Thin Threads editor, Stacey K. Battat.

These Thin Thread stories are a collection of moments, events or decisions told in personal story form, each showing how the course of our lives can be redirected for the better. Story collector, Stacey Battat, discusses the inspiration behind the release of the first in a book series entitled "Thin Threads® - Stories of Life Changing Moments."
Open to all Jewish women in the community ($5.00 admission fee)

Sponsored by Hadassah, in conjunction with National Council of Jewish women, Synagogue Sisterhoods, and the JCC Book Festival.

CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
12:00pm • Lunch & Learn Series • $18 includes lunch
Alison Buckholtz
Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War
The author's struggles and triumphs as a Jew in the military.

This is the author's candid and moving account of her family's experiences during her husband's wartime deployment on an aircraft carrier. She shares their struggles and triumphs as Jews in the military. Standing By allows Jewish audiences to understand the American military experience from an insider's perspective.

"a page turner of a read that will leave you in awe and proud of the other half of America's finest."
Bob Stone, Los Angeles

Alison Buckholtz's articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post Magazine, Real Simple, Forward, Jerusalem Report, World Jewish Digest, and many other publications. This is her first book.

Sponsored by: Women's Philanthropy of The Jewish Federation of
GNH/Women's Study Group, Department of Jewish Education, Young Adult
Division (YAD) in conjunction with Jewish Book Month