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Tova Tauber’s Booklaunch

Susie Cymbalist’s Booklaunch

Celia Lederman’s Booklaunch

Eva Szego’s Booklaunch

Story Time

Hilda Rosner’s Community Volunteer Award

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‘Jerusalem of Lights’ screening

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One egg is a fortune : memories and recipes to share

- Compiled by Pnina Jacobson & Judy Kempler

One egg is a fortune is more than a recipe collection: it is a book full of heart, an anthology of cultural vignettes with food as a central motif. Fifty well-known Jewish figures from around the world have contributed recipes and anecdotes, showcasing the diversity of contemporary Jewish life. While each person tells a unique story, their anecdotes reveal that the enjoyment of food is the common thread that binds us together

Hope : a tragedy - Shalom Auslander

Hope : A Tragedy is an hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. In this comic and compelling story, Solomon Kugel moves his wife and young son to the rural town of Stockton New York to start again. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn’t quite working out that way for Kugel…

“Funny, fierce and subversively felt” - The New York Times Book Review.

My Innocent Absence : tales from a nomadic life

- Miriam Frank

Miriam Frank was born in Barcelona, spent her early years in France under the Vichy regime, received her primary education in Mexico and her secondary school and university education in New Zealand where she graduated in medicine. By the age of twelve Miriam had fled two wars and lived on three continents. She finally returned to Europe where she married Kortokraks, a German artist and begins her journey from a fragmented start to wholeness. This is a beautifully written memoir of a fascinating life.

Neuland

- Eshkol Nevo

Manny Peleg, a 60 year old widower, surprises his children by closing down his business to go backpacking in South America. Some months later he disappears and his son Dory has to go searching for him. Inbar, a young radio producer, after visiting her mother in Berlin, makes a decision on the spur of the moment in the airport, not to go back to her job and partner, but to fly elsewhere. From here to there, by air, sea and mainly by caravan, the heroes make their way to the climax of the story, to a curious and exciting chapter in Israel’s alternative history, from where they will come back very different.

Unorthodox : the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots

- Deborah Feldman

In this arresting memoir, Deborah Feldman reveals what life is like trapped within a religious tradition that values silence and suffering over individual freedoms. Raised by her strictly religious grandparents together with a rotating cast of aunts and uncles, Deborah had to submit to customs with an emphasis on rules that govern everything, from what she could wear, to whom she could speak to and what she could read. It wasn’t until she had a child at nineteen that Deborah realised that regardless of the obstacles, she would have to break out of that world and forge a path to her own freedom.

Israel’s silent defender : an inside look at sixty years of Israeli intelligence

- Edited by Amos Gilboa, Ephraim Lapid

Israel’s silent defender is a compilation of thirty seven essays written by experts and leaders of Israeli intelligence. The Israeli intelligence community has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence. Through its professionalism, daring and creativity, it has made important contributions to intelligence services around the world in the struggle against global terrorism. This book about the essence of the Israeli intelligence organization is published in memory of its fallen heroes – those who laid the groundwork for the security of the state of Israel.

Lost lives, lost art : Jewish collectors, Nazi art theft and the quest for Justice

- Melissa Muller Monika Tatzkow

In Lost Lives, Lost Art, authors Muller and Tatzkow chronicle the tragic stories of fifteen Jewish collectors, tracing the dispersal of their extraordinary collections and following their fate as they died in concentration camps or had the good fortune to secure a visa to a safe country. Inevitably, the collections were confiscated by high ranking German officials, sold by Nazi party member art dealers or seized for state collections. The stories of the clashes between heirs determined to retrieve their inheritance and current owners are enthralling but heartbreaking.

Screwed on backwards

- Nava Semel

During one long night in intensive care in a Tel Aviv hospital, a young nurse reads out from yellowish pages to an old patient in coma. Will the mysterious love story wake him up? Slowly Thomasso’s story unfolds: adopted from a Torino orphanage, the boy lives on a farm with the young opera singer Madlena and her mother. During the summer of 1943 he feels there is a strange entity in the house. His innocent questions are met with an aggressive response from the two women he loves, who call him a lunatic, a liar and “screwed-on-backwards”. Offended Thomasso escapes to an imaginary world: Is there a princess in captivity in the attic? How is this linked to the patient in coma? How far should one go to save a life?

Srugim (Knitted Kippahs)

Good Morning Mr. Fidelman

Dan et Aaron (Brothers)

Footnote

Policeman

A Film Unfinished

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