Twenty years ago, a group of Temple members, led by Rabbi Kulwin, began reading together. Since then, the members of the TBA Book Group have read over 250 books together, and continue to read and discuss (and argue!) with enthusiasm and enjoyment. If you like to read, join us! Book Group members know that modern Jewish fiction falls mainly into three categories: books about Israel, books about the Holocaust and books about Jewish life in the Diaspora. In our twentieth year, we read works from each: Some are classics and some are new, and some approach their subject in unusual ways.
On Thursday, December 6, 7:30 PM Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashuah will be discussed. A young journalist, recently married and a new father, seeks a quieter life away from the city and buys a large house in his parents’ hometown, an Arab village in Israel. Reviewers have written that Kashuah, an Israeli Arab who writes in Hebrew, is comparable to Orwell and Kafka in his ability to convey otherworldly futility. Other dates are: Thursdays , January 3, February 7, March 7, April 11, May 2 and June 6, 2019, 7:30 PM. Free and open to the community. Register online at www.tbanj.org, or call 973.994.2290.