All TI members are welcome to the group, including those who haven't finished or even started the book. The group goes till 9 pm or until people run out of things to say.

For reminder emails, in-person location information, and Zoom links, contact Janice Mehler via the TI Membership Directory (you must be logged in to access the directory).

Learn about Kol Nashim here.

NOVEMBER READ: Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell

In Melting Point, Cockerell weaves together diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and interviews in a highly inventive style. Constructed entirely of primary sources, with one flowing into the next, the book lets long-dead voices reanimate, jostle for space, and converge to tell their stories with a novelistic vividness and detail. Follow Zangwill and the Jochelmann family through two world wars and to London, New York, and Jerusalem as their lives intertwine with those of memorable figures of the twentieth century--Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, and more. Melting Point asks what it means to belong, what can be salvaged from the obscured past, and whether a promised land can ever live up to its promises. 

Copies are available in several formats at area libraries.  

For reminder emails, location and Zoom links, TI members can contact Janice Mehler via the ShulCloud Directory (you must be logged in to access the directory).

2024-2025 reads: 

September — The Incorruptibles by Dan Slater 
November — Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi 
December — The Red Balcony  by Jonathan Wilson 
January — Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler 
February — Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani 
March — Foreign bodies: pandemics, vaccines, and the health of nations by Simon Schama 
April — The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad 
May — On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice by Adam Kirsch 
June — The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni by Helen Wecker 
July — The Amen effect: ancient wisdom to mend our broken hearts and world by Sharon Brous 
August — Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo 

Books from the 2023-2024 season:

January — The Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman

February — Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance by Wendy Lesser

March — The Postcard by Anne Berest

April — Plunder by Menachem Kaiser

May — Kantika by Elizabeth Graver

June — My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar with Dina Kraft

July — Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

August — Golda Meir by Deborah Lipstadt

September - Mother India by Tova Reich

2023 READS:

January —The Prison Minyan by Jonathan Stone

February —War of Shadows: Codebreakers Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg

March —The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

April —People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn

May  — The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

June — East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands

July — The Tunnel by A.B. Yehoshua

August — Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power by Neil Gabler

October — Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad by Matti Friedman

November — Single Jewish Male Seeking Soulmate by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

December — Once We Were Slaves: the Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family by Laura Arnold Leibman

To see all the prior reads click here.