Click here to register! What started as a simple website to serve as a college social network, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg’s first, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world. Renowned tech writer Steven Levy has had […]
Click here to register! Jews experience injustices large and small — the restaurant botching our bagel shmear, car dealership not returning our calls, or finding bacon in the synagogue fridge. Often, we suffer in silence for fear of offending anyone, or we kvetch too loudly and risk being ignored. In I Wanted Fries with That, Jewish author Amy […]
Click here to register! When the soccer-mad Yousef was eleven, the Second Intifada exploded. First came the shooting, then the occupation. Ordered to leave their family home, Yousef’s father refused, even when the Israeli soldiers moved in, seizing the top two floors. For five long years, three generations of the Bashir family were virtual prisoners […]
Click here to register! We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90 percent of Americans believe that geniuses are almost always men? New York Times bestselling author Janice Kaplan explores the powerful forces that have rigged the system—and celebrates the women geniuses past and present who have triumphed anyway. Writer and Magazine Editor Janice Kaplan set out […]
Click here to register! Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt standups. Then one night, despite bombing on stage, he caught the attention of Lorne Michaels and became one of the first writers at Saturday Night Live, where he penned classic material for […]
Click here to register! Even those who consider themselves well-versed in Jewish history will feel surprised — even horrified — by the story told in Talia Carner’s new novel, The Third Daughter. Set in the late nineteenth century, it tells of a Jewish-run syndicate who systematically kidnapped young women from Eastern Europe for the purpose of selling them as prostitutes […]
Click here to register! The Lost Family delves into the many lives that have been irrevocably changed by home DNA tests - a technology that represents the end of family secrets. There are the adoptees who've used the test to find their birth parents; donor-conceived adults who suddenly discover they have more than fifty siblings; […]
Click here to register! A vivid, page-turning, and inspiring re-imagination of the final months of World War II, and the brilliant researchers behind the first atomic bomb, Hannah’s War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman, and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery. in 1945, Dr. Hannah Weiss, an Austrian-Jewish physicist, is removed from her essential […]
Click here to register! Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, beautifully illustrated, and just a little bit irreverent, this unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covers culture, religion, history, habits, language, and more. Readers will refresh their knowledge of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, the artistry of Barbra Streisand, the significance of the Oslo Accords, the […]
Live Virtual Exhibition Tour with the Illinois Holocaust Museum Cost: $10 per household Minimum of 10 attendees required After buying tickets, you will receive the Zoom link closer to the event. Based on the New York Times bestselling book and Tumblr page of the same name, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader […]