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, May 2, 7:30 PM The Far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman will be discussed. Stollman, an academic physician by day, has achieved critical acclaim through his moonlighting as a novelist. Through the story of Alexander, son of a rabbi in Windsor, Ontario, The Far Euphrates is what The Times called an exploration of our effort to “solve for ourselves the riddle of God’s existence and cultivate a sense of mercy in an unforgiving age.”
The TBA Book Group last session is: Thursday, June 6, 2019, 7:30 PM. Free and open to the community. Register at www.tbanj.org,or call 973.994.2290