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Book Club
January 18 @ 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST
The Book Club is open to all in the community to share insights, consider
different perspectives, and engage in thought provoking conversations about
books that explore Jewish life, history, ideas, struggles, and values. Book
club will meet at the synagogue and the discussion will be led by Rabbi
Rubenstein.
** _ _Kantika__ _ by Elizabeth Graver:_** A kaleidoscopic portrait of one
family’s displacement across four countries, Kantika―“song” in Ladino ―
follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic
elite of early
20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to
move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what
comes her way ― a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also
passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an
arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge ― her disabled
stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit
new family against old.
Organized by: Congregation Beth Ahm
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