KOH NEW ARRIVALS - MARCH

Please peruse our collection during regular office hours OR before and after our terrific programs, described below. 

Books:

The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess 
   By Jeff Wheelwright
All that I Am, a novel
   By Anna Funder
Address Unknown, a novella
   By Katherine Kressman Taylor
Walter Rathenau, Weimar's Fallen Statesman
   By Shulamit Volker
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, short stories
   By Nathan Englander
These Days Are Ours, a novel
   By Michelle Haimoff
The Challenge of Wealth
   By Meir Tamari

DVD: 

Nora's Will

KOH GUEST SPEAKER

On Sunday,March 25th we are excited to welcome special guest speaker, Professor Allison Coudert (Religious Studies, U.C. Davis) who will be giving a lecture entitled "The Jewish Kabbalah, Science, and the Enlightenment" at 6 p.m. Dr. Allison Coudert received her PhD from the Warberg Institute, University of London. Her focus of interest is on the interaction between religion and science in the west with a special emphasis on Jewish contributions to science and on women and gender issues.

Open to the entire community. For more information, please contact Taliah at (916) 485-4143

KOH CHESS TOURNAMENT!

March 25th - Second Annual Sacramento Jewish Chess Tournament at 10 a.m. All levels welcome. Trophy presented to winner. $10 entry fee to play in the tournament. Anyone free to come watch and cheer on your favorite player. To learn more or to sign up to participate in the tournament, contact Hillel Damron at shalomhd@comcast.net

KOH Book Club - March

The March meeting of the KOH Book Club will be Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 7 p.m. We will be discussing the book, "The Cookbook Collector" by Allegra Goodman.


Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily’s boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess’s boyfriends, not so much.

National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has written a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.

Newcomers always welcome.

For more information, contact Jolie at the library (916) 485-4143.

SPECIAL SPEAKER

March 18th - Special guest speaker, Professor Bob Platzner, will give a lecture on "Women in the Hebrew Bible" at 2 p.m. Dr. Platzner taught at Temple University and later at California State University, Sacramento for 36 years. He has published in the field of biblical scholarship, religious studies, and film history. He is currently working on a new book on the History of World Religions.

For more information, contact Taliah Berger at (916- 541-3720) or taliah@kohlcc.org