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Temple B’nai Abraham Book Group Continues!
TBA Book Group, led by Rabbi Kulwin, continues ! Free & open to the community, join us on September 7, 7:30 PM for the first fall selection.
Eighteen years ago, a group of Temple B’nai Abraham members, led by Rabbi Kulwin, began reading together. Since then, the members of the TBA Book Group have read over 200 books together, and continue to read and discuss together with enthusiasm and enjoyment. If you like to read, and can at least occasionally be available usually on the first Thursday of every month join us! Current selections are generally grouped in two or three months of a particular theme, are posted on the temple’s website, www.tbanj.org. Books are almost always available easy from area libraries, or online, or at local bookstores. And when they are not, the Temple will secure several copies of the book for us to share. The book group is free and open to the community. The temple is located at 300 East Northfield Road, Livingston, entrance on East Cedar Street. Register online at www.tbanj.org or call 973.994.2290.
The fall 2017 selections’ theme is Intrigue!... murder mysteries and spy thrillers are popular in both America and Israel. These two selections are page turners, fascinating portals into a side of Israeli society we rarely consider and fictional case studies teaching us about real life.
On Thursday, September 7, at 7:30 PM, A Possibility of Violence by D.A. Mishani will be discussed. Think Harry Bosch…if Bosch had been born in Rishon LeZion. Someone planted a fake bomb next to a preschool and Detective Avraham Avraham investigates. He realizes this is something other than terrorism, but just what proves elusive…and dangerous. As we follow Avraham, we learn a bit about being a policeman in Israel.
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On Thursday, November 2, at 7:30 PM, Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg by Mishka Ben-David will be discussed. Think Gabriel Alon…if Daniel Silva wrote in Hebrew. Ben-David holds an M.A. in literature from the University of Wisconsin, a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University, and for twelve years was a Mossad agent. His fictional double, Yogev Ben-Ari, moves to Moscow to set up a sleeper cell, but instead ends up sleeping with a beautiful and (of course) mysterious bookstore owner. Ben-Ari tries to figure out who the good guys are and, along the way, demonstrates what happens to Israeli families when someone’s a spy.
