Join as we hear from authors and discuss newly published contemporary Jewish books. Sponsored in part by The Jewish Book Council and TIC Sisterhood.
Find more information and Zoom links in the weekly community email. For more information, please contact the Rebecca Stulberger at r.stulberger@templeisraelcenter.org.
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Wednesday, December 17 at 7:00 pm by Zoom
An atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Prohibition-era New York, tracing one eastern European Jewish immigrant family’s fortunes and a young girl’s journey from the schoolyard to the speakeasy.
Wednesday, January 1 at 7:00 pm by Zoom
The Majority brings us into the sacrifices, heartaches, and complex emotional life of a powerful woman ahead of her time, whose life and work turn out to have supreme stakes.
Sunday, January 25 at 10:00 am by Zoom
I Wanted to be Wonderful follows the lives of two women in their first years of marriage and motherhood, each trying to live the happily-ever-after they imagine for themselves. It’s a story of metamorphosis from independent working woman to mother and the need to face the reality that life is not always a happily ever after.
Sunday, February 1 at 7:00 pm in person
Co-sponsored by Sisterhood
GURSHA is at once an intimate autobiography and a refreshing cookbook by Beejhy Barhany of Tsion Cafe, an Ethiopian and Israeli restaurant in Harlem. She was born in Ethiopia, raised mostly in Israel and is the founder of BINA Cultural Foundation, a cultural organization dedicated to the empowerment of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) community within the United States.
Wednesday, February 25 at 7:00 pm by Zoom
In a gripping novel full of plot twists, B. A. Shapiro embeds us in a circle of famous painters in late-nineteenth-century Paris, centering on the anguished Impressionist artist Berthe Morisot — the one woman in their midst who never got her due — and the story of Morisot’s great-great-great-great granddaughter, Tamara Rubin, who has inherited Édouard Manet’s Party on the Seine, a painting that completely upends her life. A riveting thriller from the bestselling author of The Art Forger.
Wednesday, March 11 at 7:00 pm in person
Stacy Ross tells her story as a parent of a child with Borderline Personality Disorder. With a raw honesty rarely found in parents of children with mental illness, Stacy takes readers on a roller coaster ride of emotions and experiences on her journey to acceptance.
Virtual Lunch and Learn: Tuesday, March 17 at 12:30 pm by Zoom
Promised Lands provides a window into the lives of American Jewish women in both New York City’s Upper West Side and Palestine during the interwar period.
Wednesday, April 15 at 7:00 pm in person
A brilliant and ambitious young woman strives to find her place amid the promise and tumult of 1920s Wall Street in a captivating historical novel by the author of The Lobotomist’s Wife.
Sunday April 19, 2026 at 11:00 am in person
Julian Voloj will discuss his new book Hyphen, a powerful celebration of Jewish life amplifying voices that have too often been overlooked. This collection features 12 deeply personal, real-life stories of Jews from racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse backgrounds around the world.
Wednesday, May 13 at 7:00 pm in person
A comic novel about a tech startup that turns sand into rain clouds from Sami Rohr prize winner Iddo Gefen. The story opens with Mrs. Lilienblum discovered drinking a martini in a crater in the Israeli desert. Eli, her adult son, tries to understand what happened to his wacky mother while making sense of his own life.
