March

 
Used Book Sale
Tuesday, March 9, 4-7:00 pm

Looking for inexpensive Afikomen gifts for Passover? Stop by on Tuesday, March 9 from 4-7:00 pm to browse through terrific reads, classics and bestsellers. Used books in good condition at prices as low as $1!

André Aciman
Eight White Nights
Wednesday, April 14, 7:30 pm

Aciman’s debut novel, Call Me by Your Name, confirmed his reputation as a masterful prose stylist. His new novel tells the story of an unnamed narrator’s obsession with a fascinating and unreachable woman.

 The Foundation for Jewish Studies presents

Jason Rosenblatt
Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden
Thursday, April 22, 7:30 pm
FREE with RSVP!

Political theorist, legal historian, parliamentarian and rabbinic scholar. Selden was all of these things; He was also a non-Jew. Rosenblatt explores the importance of Selden’s Hebrew scholarship.

Part of the Distinguished Scholar Series

Hillel Halkin
Yehuda Halevi
Monday, April 26, 7:30 pm

Poet, physician, and philosopher, Yehuda Halevi is as well-known today for his poetry as he is for The Kuzari, one of the most important works of Jewish philosophy ever published. Halkin evokes the world of 11th and 12th century Andalusian Spain and discusses the tangle of religious and cultural influences that formed Halevi, as well as the ongoing debate over his legacy.

Sponsored by JDub Records and Nextbook Press

 The Helen and Milton Covensky Fund

Hasia R. Diner
We Remember with Reverence and Love:
Americans and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962
Tuesday, May 11, 7:30 pm

Past events:

Myla Goldberg (1/28/10)
Lenore Skenazy (1/31/10)
Annabelle Gurwitch & Jeff Kahn (2/24/10)
Howard Jacobson (2/25/10)
Gabriel Brownstein (3/4/2010)