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    Hug HaSefer - Book Discussion Circle

    Our Book Discussion Circle generally meets on the fourth Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. and focuses on Jewish content in both fiction and non-fiction. You can find specific information about the location of each month’s meeting in that month's Newsletter, the Kol HaLev calendar, and the Weekly Update. Note that the Newsletter also contains a brief summary of the book for that month.

    All KHL members are welcome to attend these discussions and to recommend books for discussion. Contact Kevin Weidenbaum at KJW@oberlin.net to be added to the group’s email list.

    Our Calendar of Books for 2022:

    January 27, A Land Twice Promised: An Israeli Woman’s Quest for Peace, Noa Baum

    February 24, The Last Interview, Echkol Nevo

    March 31, The Book of V.: A Novel, Anna Solomon

    April 28, Concealed, Esther Amini

    May 26, A Man a Woman and a Man, Savyon Liebrecht

    June 23, A Woman in Jerusalem, Abraham B. Yehoshua

    July 28, The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found, Bart Van Es

    August 25, Between Friends, Amos Oz 

    October 27, What We Will Become: A Mother, A Son, and Journey of Transformation, Mimi Lemay

    November 17, Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate: A Novel, Letty Cottin Pogrebin 

    December 22, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past, Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair

     

    Note that in November the meeting will be on the THIRD Thursday.

     

     


     

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    Office: 2245 Warrensville Center Road, Suite 215 . University Heights, OH 44118 . (216) 320-1498

    Kol HaLev is affiliated with Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

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