Dr.PamelaS.NADELL Dr. JonathanSARNA Dr. GaryZOLA

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21
DaraHORN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel
Dr. Allan J.Lichtman
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3
7:30pm at Beth David Congregation • 2625 SW 3rd Avenue
Admission $10
FDR and the Jews
7:30pm at Young Israel of Kendall
7880 SW 112 Street
Admission $10
Alper JCC • 11155 SW 112 Avenue • Robert Russell Theater • Admission $10
Dara Horn’s spellbinding novel intertwines stories from Genesis, medieval philosophy,
and the digital frontier. The story weaves the work of a software prodigy with the
discovery, a century earlier, of a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. What
is revealed is a world where nothing is ever forgotten. Ms. Horn was recognized by
Granta magazine as one of the “Best Young American Novelists” and is also a winner of two National Jewish Book Awards.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22
MatthewLEVITT
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24
ShemiZARHIN
Some Day
FILM,The World is Funny Zarhin’s numerous award-winning film credits include Dangerous
Acts, Aviva My Love and Noodles. His latest feature, The World is Funny (2012), was nominated for a record
15 Ophirs (the Israeli Oscars). The narrator of this bittersweet film is a housekeeper who learns her employers’ stories, and
uses the information at a writing workshop. The film will be screened following Mr. Zarhin’s presentation.
CALLING ALL BOOK CLUBS! Monday, October 28
Helene
WECKER
7:30pm at Bet Breira Samu-El Or Olom • 9400 SW 87th Avenue • Admission $10
The Golem and
the Jinni: A Novel
In her debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker
creates an immigrant tale that combines elements of Jewish
and Arab folk mythology, and uses the characters of two
supernatural creatures who arrive separately in New York in
1899. These mythical beings from otherwise clashing cultures
not only coexist, but also come to rely upon one another in
order to exist at all. This is an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and
was also featured in The New York Times Book Review.
Tomorrow There
Will Be Apricots
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots is a compelling story
about accepting the people we have to love and the people
we choose to love, the families we’re given and the families
we make. Jessica Soffer weaves together the lives of two
very different women adrift in New York. Each one yearns for
love, acceptance and forgiveness and must reckon with the
past, the future, and the truth—whatever it might be.
Jessica
SOFFER
Community Partner: Jewish Community Services of South Florida
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, lead educator of seminar
HOLOCAUST
TEACHERS’ WORKSHOP
Grades 3–12 • 8:30am – 3:30pm at the Alper JCC
TEC Credits. Public school teachers sign up on the TEC
professional development website.
1:15pm Dr. Cheyenne Martin, Professor of Nurse Ethicist, University of Texas presents
“Saving Children: Medical Doctors and Nurse Resisters in
Poland and France During the Holocaust”
Community Partners: The Jack and Harriett Rosenfeld Foundation Program in
Jewish Education at UM; Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
Dr.PamelaS.NADELL
Introductions by Jean Powers Soman
“Giving Our All to the Poor Soldiers:
Jewish Women in the Civil War ”
Dr. Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History and is Chair
of the Department of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University.
She is discussing a chapter she published in the book Jewish Life in Mr. Lincoln’s City.
Dr. JonathanSARNA
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
7:30pm • Bet Shira Congregation
7500 SW 120th Street
Admission $10
The Sons of Abraham is an example of a genuine alliance
between Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali. Despite
the anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic prejudices they were exposed to in their youth, these two
men forged a lasting friendship in the tumultuous decade following the attacks of 9/11.
They share their vision of how Jews and Muslims can work to find common ground, analyze some of the religious texts that
divide—but can also unite, and address the pressing issues of the day, such as why Jews should be concerned about
Islamophobia and why Muslims should care about anti-Semitism.
Community Partners: GMJF South Dade Community; MCCJ (historically known as Miami Coalition of Christians & Jews)
Book Festival, Women’s Day Luncheon & Cultural Arts
7:00pm at the Alper JCC • 11155 SW 112 Avenue
Robert Russell Theater • $10 Admission
FILM The World is Funny
Dan Friedman, the managing editor of The Jewish Forward,
interviews the author.
Shemi Zarhin is an acclaimed Israeli director and screenwriter who teaches at the Sam
Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem. In his debut novel Some Day, the multi-talented
writer mixes passion and fantasy to create a sensual and emotional family saga using
a quirky and loveable cast of characters.
2:00pm A Civil War Panel
1:00pm Light Brunch
Sons of Abraham: A Candid
Conversation about the Issues That
Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims
Co-sponsored by The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at UM.
An intriguing and comprehensive biography of writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe
Shuster, the Jewish teens who dreamed up the world’s first superhero in 1933.
Marc Tyler Nobleman addresses the Superman/Moses parallel, Superman’s
Hebraic-sounding Kryptonian name, and the truth about whether or not Hitler
himself personally banned Superman comics because he considered the character to be a Jew.
allegiances that deeply split the Jewish communities during the Civil War, and the little-known
struggles that faced American Jews both in battle and on the home front.
Rabbi MarcSCHNEIER &
Imam ShamsiALI
Drawing on recently declassified government documents, court records, and
personal interviews, Matthew Levitt examines Hezbollah’s beginnings, its first
violent forays in Lebanon, and then its terrorist activities and criminal enterprises
around the globe. Levitt is director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
7:30pm at the Temple Beth Or • 11715 SW 87th Avenue
Admission $10
11:00am FILM - Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray exposes the
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30
7:30pm at the Miller Center on the UM Campus • 5202 University Drive
105 Merrick Building • Admission $10
Marc
TylerNOBLEMAN
Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War
Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious
debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned
his back on the Jews of Hitler’s Europe. Defenders claim that
FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi
Germany. Others accuse him of keeping America’s gates
closed to Jewish refugees and failing to bomb Auschwitz’s
gas chambers. The author uses many new primary sources to
present an extensive examination of this debate. Featured in
The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Community Partner: CAJE’s Department of Adult Learning and the Melton School
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Lincoln, Grant and Jews in the Civil War
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We Called Him Rabbi Abraham:
Lincoln and American Jewry
Dr. Gary P. Zola, Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives, explores the
characteristics that inspired Jews to embrace President Lincoln as a man with a
“Jewish soul.” Lincoln had become a spiritual and moral kinsman of the Jews not
only for his swift response to General Grant’s proclamation, but also for the1861
appointment of the first rabbi to Army chaplaincy.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15
MegWOLITZER
The Interestings: A Novel
A compelling coming of age story about five privileged kids, is also a pitchperfect tale about a particular generation and the era that spawned it. Wolitzer
follows a group of teenagers who meet at an artsy summer camp in 1974 and
survive as friends through the competitions and realities of growing up. How the friends circle each
other, come together and break apart, provides numerous hilarious scenes and plenty of heartbreaking
ones, too. An Amazon Best Book, featured in The New York Times and an Oprah Summer Pick.
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11:00am at Temple Beth Am • 5950 N. Kendall Drive
Admission $10 • Light Brunch
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Award-winning historian Jonathan D. Sarna presents a riveting account of General
Ulysses S. Grant’s decision to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory
under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political
career, on the American Jewish community, and on the American political process.
This book was a finalist in the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5
Yossi KleinHALEVI
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Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers
Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
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Yossi Klein Halevi is an internationally respected writer and commentator whose
latest work, Like Dreamers, is a narrative history of Israel. The story follows seven paratroopers who
fought in Jerusalem in 1967, and after the war one part of the group became leaders of the settlement movement, while the
other active in the peace movement. Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and writes
regularly the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Co-sponsored by The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at UM.
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Opening Receptions of the Futernick Family Art Gallery and the Lisa Ann Watson Children's Discovery Museum, 2 tickets to Elayne Boosler
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Sablotsky Cultural Arts Center. $1000. For information about Neshama or to join, call Ann Horenstein at 305-271-9000 x 253.
Women’sDayLuncheon
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13
RudiWEISSENSTEIN
Alper JCC • 11155 SW 112 Avenue • Admission $10
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Photographs of Israel 1:00-5:00pm in the Futernick Family Art Gallery
View four decades of powerful images that capture the political and social environment leading up
to Israel’s Independence in 1948. The exhibit runs through November 3rd.
Life In Stills, film 2:00pm in the Robert Russell Theater
Four Authors In Our Midst
The award-winning Israeli documentary records Miriam Weissenstein’s and her grandson Ben’s
fight to save Pri-Or Photohouse destined for demolition, and nearly one million negatives of photos
shot by Miriam’s late husband, photographer Rudi Weissenstein.
SteveLIEBOWITZ
Devorah: The Covenant and the Scrolls Book 1
Follow the extraordinary life of Devorah, a Biblical prophetess who became
the only female Judge ever to rule ancient Israel, and the challenges she
faced between her personal religious views and the prevailing, more
traditional ones.
Rabbi SolomonSCHIFF
Under the Yarmulke: Tales of Faith, Fun and Football
Sharing thoughts with five American presidents, three Israeli Prime
Ministers, two Popes and the Dali Lama, in this memoir Rabbi Schiff
traces his remarkable journey from a Bronx cantor to a world-renowned
spiritual leader.
SharonSOCOL
Intuitively choosing to go behind the scenes and using her camera to demystify
the glamorous and spontaneous fashion world, Sharon Socol recorded what
she saw and felt. Plus One photographs on exhibit.
RochelleWEINSTEIN
The Mourning After
Following the success of her first novel, Rochelle Weinstein follows one
family’s deepest tragedy, and realizes that when it comes to family,
nothing is ever what it seems.
HighLIGHTS
SABLOTSKY Cultural Arts Center
Ragen
Naomi Ragen is an American-born
novelist, playwright and journalist and
the author of nine international
bestsellers. She is a tireless advocate
for women's rights in Israel, where she
has lived since 1979. In her latest novel,
The Sisters Weiss, Ragen continues her
groundbreaking
exploration of the
ultra-Orthodox
Jewish world, as
she follows two
sisters, one’s
reckless youthful
adventures and
how differently
each responds to
her community’s
strictures.
Community Partner: Sharsheret
In Memory of Vicki Hamersmith
Sunday, October 13 • Alper JCC
1:00pm - Art Exhibit • 2:00pm - FILM Life In Stills
3:00pm - Steve Liebowitz, Rabbi Solomon Schiff,
Sharon Socol, Rochelle Weinstein
Saturday, October 19 • 7:30pm • Alper JCC
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, For the Next Generation
Sunday, October 20 • 7:00pm • Alper JCC
Marcia Clark, Killer Ambition
Monday, October 21 • 7:30pm • Beth David Congregation
Dara Horn, A Guide for the Perplexed
Tuesday, October 22 • 7:30pm • Miller Center at UM
Matthew Levitt, Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God
Wednesday, October 23 • 7:30pm • Temple Beth Or
Marc Tyler Nobleman, Boys of Steel
Thursday, October 24 • 7:00pm • Alper JCC
Shemi Zarhin, Some Day / FILM The World is Funny
Friday, October 25 • 1:15pm • Alper JCC
Teacher’s Holocaust Workshop / Dr. Cheyenne Martin
Sunday, January 19 • 3pm
Wizard of Oz film at 2 pm • $5 per person
Singin’ With Susan , A Children’s Concert
with Susan Shane-Linder and Company
Saturday, February 22 • 8pm
$7 per person
Elayne Boosler, A Night of Comedy
Sunday, March 9 • 2pm
$30 JCC Member / $35 Admission / $50 Preferred
Maccabeats, an a cappella phenomenon
$22 JCC Member / $25 Admission / $10 Child / $36 Preferred
Co-sponsor Nadine & Steve Foldes in honor of their grandsons
The Coral Gables Country Club
997 North Greenway Drive, Coral Gables 33134-4899
9:30am Boutiques Open • 11:00am Program Begins
$55 General Admission • $65 after October 28 • $75 Patron
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, is an Emmy winner, an
award-winning journalist and the author of ten books - including the best sellers
Getting over Getting Older and Deborah, Golda, and Me.
An admired social justice activist, Pogrebin is a co-founder of the National Women’s
Political Caucus; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the UJA-Federation Task Force on Women,
and the International Center for Peace in the Middle East. Her devotion to advancing
inter-group harmony inspired her participation in longstanding Black-Jewish and
Jewish-Palestinian dialogue groups.
Pogrebin created an invaluable guidebook for anyone experiencing health and
personal challenges and the importance of friendship in the process. With sensitivity,
warmth, and humor, she used her recent experience with breast
cancer to discover the best ways to provide comfort and support while rising
to the challenge of being a good friend.
Women’s Day 2013 offers a delicious lunch, an engaging topic for discussion and
fabulous shopping at specialty boutiques. Reservations are required.
Monday, October 28 • 7:30pm • Bet Breira Samu-El Or Olom
Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
Jessica Soffer, Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
Tuesday, October 29 • 7:30pm • Young Israel of Kendall
Dr. Allan J. Lichtman, FDR and the Jews
Wednesday, October 30 • 7:30pm • Bet Shira Congregation
Rabbi Marc Schneier, Imam Shamsi Ali, Sons of Abraham
Sunday, November 3 • Alper JCC
11:00am - FILM Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray
2:00pm - Dr. Pamela Nadell, Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Dr. Gary Zola
Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center
on The Jay Morton-Levinthal Campus
11155 SW 112th Avenue, Miami, FL 33176
305.271.9000 x268 • Fax: 305.595.1902 • www.alperjcc.org
2013 Book Festival Steering Committee
Killer Ambition
7:00pm at the Alper JCC • 11155 SW 112 Avenue
Robert Russell Theater • Admission $10
Helen Stein Esq. interviews the author.
Since the 1990s the name Marcia Clark has been inextricably linked
with the name O. J. Simpson. Killer Ambition is the third novel for
Clark following her critically successful books, Guilt by Association and Guilt By Degrees. With her tremendous expertise in
the nuances of L.A. courts and crime, she combines intimate detail, riotous humor, and visceral action securing her place as a
major figure on the crime-writing scene. Now a special correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, Clark covers high-profile
trials, writes a column for The Daily Beast, and provides legal commentary for multiple television shows.
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Robert Turk / JCC President
Ed Rosen / Executive Director
Suzy Breitner / Director of Visual Arts
Annette Santana / Cultural Arts Administrator
33rd Annual
ALPER JCC Berrin Family
Jewish Book Festival
& Women’s Day Luncheon
History, Mystery & Myths
33rd Annual Alper JCC’s Berrin Family Jewish Book Festival has been made
possible through the generous support of: American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC); Coaching With Jodi Orshan, The Parenting Plan; Divorce Without War®; JCC
Neshama Society and Literary Circle Patrons & Friends; Miami-Dade County Department
of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and the
Board of County Commissioners; Jean Powers Soman; The Sue and Leonard Miller Center
for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami; Tourist Development Grant.
We would like to thank our Community Partners: Bet Breira Samu-El Or Olom; Beth
David Congregation; Bet Shira Congregation; Center for the Advancement of Jewish
Education (CAJE) Florence Melton Adult Mini-School; Chabad of Kendall; Consulate General
of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico; Jack and Harriet Rosenfeld Foundation Program in
Jewish Education at UM; Miami-Dade County Public Schools Div. of Social Science; Jewish
Community Services of South Florida; Sharsheret; Temple Beth Am; Temple Beth Or; Temple
Judea; Young Israel of Kendall.
Friday, November 15 • 11:00am • Temple Beth Am
Yossi Klein Halevi, Like Dreamers
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Director of Literary & Performing Arts: Marcy Levitt
The Dave and Mary Alper JCC thanks the co-sponsoring organizations for their participation
in our 33rd annual Jewish Book Festival. Co-sponsorship does not imply the endorsement
of opinions expressed by the guest authors. All opinions and ideas expressed by the authors
are solely their own and do not express the positions or opinions of the Dave and Mary
Alper JCC leadership, Book Festival Committee, staff or the co-sponsoring agencies.
Thursday, December 5 • 7:30pm • Miller Center at UM
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20
MarciaCLARK
WOMEN’S DAY LUNCHEON CHAIR: Cheryl Rosen
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Nadine Barocas, Renee Greenstein,
Elaine Katz, Anne Sheldon, Susan Spatzer
Many of the author appearances are arranged through the Jewish Book Council’s Jewish
Book Network, of which the Alper JCC is a member.
Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
Congresswoman and Democratic National Committee chair
Debbie Wasserman Schultz challenges the nation to resolve
tough issues and to understand that Americans are paying too
high a price for the bitter alliances, personal vendettas and
legislative gridlock. For the Next Generation is a call-to-action
urging all to engage in a dialogue that fosters change, so when
today's children are adults they won't be burdened with the
same problems. With stories from her own life as a career mom and one of Congress’s most powerful personalities,
Wasserman Schultz forces us to reevaluate what we hold dear—now and for the future.
Co-sponsored by Divorce Without War®
Thursday, November 7 • 9:30am • Coral Gables Country Club
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick
Women’s Day Luncheon
For the Next Generation:
A Wake-Up Call to Solving
Our Nation's Problems
A Conversation With
Co-sponsored by Coaching With Jodi Orshan, The Parenting Plan
JEWISHBOOKFESTIVAL
CALENDAR
DebbieWASSERMAN SCHULTZ
Congresswoman
7:30pm at the Alper JCC • 11155 SW 112 Avenue
Robert Russell Theater • Admission $10
33rd Annual Alper JCC Berrin Family
Naomi Ragen, The Sisters Weiss
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A Children’s Interactive Exhibit
How to Be a Friend
to a Friend Who’s Sick
7:30pm at the Temple Judea
5500 Granada Blvd.
Admission $10
Thursday, October 17 • 7:30pm • Temple Judea
Sunday, January 5 • noon – 4pm
POGREBIN
NAOMI
Thursday, October 17
The Sisters Weiss
3:00pm in the Robert Russell Theater
Plus One: An Outsider’s Photographic Journey
into The World Of Fashion
Letty Cottin
FEATURING
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19
The Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center on The Jay Morton-Levinthal Campus
is a beneficiary agency of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, United Way of Miami-Dade
County and a member agency of the JCC Association.
Books are available for purchase at all events through Books & Books.
A percentage of sale proceeds are donated to the Alper JCC.