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June 9, 2008

Lilith -- a Jewish book club for women

BC%20Lilith%20edited.jpg One of the area's newest book clubs is Lilith, which started this spring at Beth El Congregation in the Pikesville area. It was organized by Lindsay Kleiman, who had a similar club at the University of Maryland, College Park. The theme: literature by Jewish women or about Jewish women. "I'd like people to be able to develop their perspective on Jewish women outside the religious ideal ..." she says. "It's not that people have narrow views [of women], they don't have views at all. ... Women are under-represented in Jewish literature."

Now reading. The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer

The club is open to women of all ages, but RSVPs are requested.
For information, contact: Micah Kleid at 410.484.0411 or micah@bethelbalto.com, or Kleiman at lindsay.kleiman@gmail.com

Posted by Dave Rosenthal at 2:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)
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perhaps you will consider reading Full Circle, a novel recently published and available online through Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Briefly: Recently divorced and trying to adjust to a new community, Diane finds herself torn between love for her sons and love for something she had never imagined. (I am author of two non-fiction works of Jewish interest: Between the Lines and In Other Words.

Posted by: anna gotlieb | December 30, 2008 8:23 PM

Your readers might be interested in my newest novel "Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman," a romantic triangle about a divorced Baby Boomer who falls in love with a beautiful woman rabbi. As bookchick.com said, Loving a rabbi is a complicated thing as Joss quickly learns in this witty novel by Gary Morgenstein. But loving a neurotic, divorced, but still charming, divorced man is a very complicated thing too, as the rabbi herself learns. Of course, their love story is all the more complicated by Joss' unresolved feelings for his ex-wife. How it all gets resolved, as well as quirky and highly unusual involvement of Joss' best friend, makes this a thoroughly post-modern love story.
Here is the link
http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Rabbi-Thalia-Kleinman-Romance/dp/1442114606/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241816636&sr=1-1

Posted by: Gary Morgenstein | May 8, 2009 5:05 PM

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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.