13th of Adar I, 5784















A potluck Kiddush lunch will follow the morning service. Right after that we will gather for a Speaker Panel: Tapestries of Traditions – Stories from Jewish Women with Roots Around the World. Featuring four Jewish women whose stories reflect the richness and diversity of Jewish life around the world.
Panelists Esther Moses-Wood, Tami Gabay, Bella Sherman, and Ronit Rada will share personal experiences shaped by ancient Jewish communities in India, Persia, Morocco, and Ethiopia. Through food, family, ritual, and memory, these women will explore how tradition is preserved, adapted, and passed on across generations and through experiences of immigration and new beginnings—all woven together into a vibrant, living tapestry of Jewish identity.
Everyone is invited!


The Jewish Book Festival presents Sons of Survivors: Making Peace with Inherited Trauma with Aron Hirt-ManheimerTwo lifelong friends uncover their families’ long-hidden Holocaust history, confronting silence, reclaiming memory, transforming inherited trauma into a powerful legacy of love.The authors of this dual memoir were conceived in the same Displaced Persons camp in occupied Germany, and grew up in the close-knit community of Yiddish-speaking refugees in America.
Though the Holocaust formed the backdrop of their lives, they didn’t talk much about it - until, as older adults, they embraced the imperative to bear witness, and set out to discover everything that happened to their families in Poland. Navigating through this haunted terrain, the friends realized that the love they inherited from their parents transcends the trauma.Aron Hirt-Manheimer was described by Elie Wiesel as "a writer possessed of a rare blend of integrity, persuasiveness, and good literary sense." He is the author of several history books, founder of the Davka magazine, and editor of the Reform Judaism magazine.
Books will be available for sale and signing by the author.
Free to join. Everyone is welcome!
REGISTER FOR FEBRUARY 22 HERE
Click here for more info about the JCC Jewish Book Festival





























































































A potluck Kiddush lunch will follow the morning service. Right after that we will gather for a Speaker Panel: Tapestries of Traditions – Stories from Jewish Women with Roots Around the World. Featuring four Jewish women whose stories reflect the richness and diversity of Jewish life around the world.
Panelists Esther Moses-Wood, Tami Gabay, Bella Sherman, and Ronit Rada will share personal experiences shaped by ancient Jewish communities in India, Persia, Morocco, and Ethiopia. Through food, family, ritual, and memory, these women will explore how tradition is preserved, adapted, and passed on across generations and through experiences of immigration and new beginnings—all woven together into a vibrant, living tapestry of Jewish identity.
Everyone is invited!



The Jewish Book Festival presents Sons of Survivors: Making Peace with Inherited Trauma with Aron Hirt-ManheimerTwo lifelong friends uncover their families’ long-hidden Holocaust history, confronting silence, reclaiming memory, transforming inherited trauma into a powerful legacy of love.The authors of this dual memoir were conceived in the same Displaced Persons camp in occupied Germany, and grew up in the close-knit community of Yiddish-speaking refugees in America.
Though the Holocaust formed the backdrop of their lives, they didn’t talk much about it - until, as older adults, they embraced the imperative to bear witness, and set out to discover everything that happened to their families in Poland. Navigating through this haunted terrain, the friends realized that the love they inherited from their parents transcends the trauma.Aron Hirt-Manheimer was described by Elie Wiesel as "a writer possessed of a rare blend of integrity, persuasiveness, and good literary sense." He is the author of several history books, founder of the Davka magazine, and editor of the Reform Judaism magazine.
Books will be available for sale and signing by the author.
Free to join. Everyone is welcome!
REGISTER FOR FEBRUARY 22 HERE
Click here for more info about the JCC Jewish Book Festival






















































































































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