AMAZING BOOK COLLECTION DONATED TO KOH LIBRARY!

Pictured (left to right): Taliah Berger, Jolie Baron, Allison Coudert (Dr. Weiner's widow), Daniel Khazzoom

We are pleased to have been chosen to house the collection of 2,000 books that belonged to the late Dr. Gordon Weiner, retired director of Jewish studies at Arizona State University. We now have a premiere Jewish library equipped with books on every aspect of Jewish studies for anyone wanting to do research on any area of Jewish studies for school or pleasure. Come in and learn about the history of Jews in most countries around the world, the history (past and present) of anti-semitism, and read commentaries on all religious texts....just to name a few possibilities. Look for an upcoming article in the September Jewish Voice to read more about Dr. Weiner and our special collection.

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER!!

You will want to make sure to mark your calendars now for Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 2 p.m. when the KOH Library and Cultural Center proudly welcomes Mr. John Rothmann. Mr. Rothmann is an author, lecturer, teacher, activist, political consultant, and radio talk show host on KGO Newstalk 810 AM in San Francisco.

The title of his lecture will be" The Middle East at a Crossroad: What Next?"

Questions or to R.S.V.P. (suggested, but not required), please contact Taliah Berger at 916-541-3720.

Suggested donation - $10

KOH Film Club/Hadassah Event 7-10-11

We had a very successful Hadassah/KOH film and speaker event today. We watched the very moving documentary, "The Children's Odyssey" , heard a lecture by an inspiring Joe Rosenbaum, and raised over $350 for Hadassah's Youth Alliyah Program.

Pictured (left to right) : Marlo Dewing (co-president of Sacramento Hadassah), Joe Rosenbaum, Rina Rosenbaum, Jolie Baron

KOH Library Volunteer Lunch

Check out our amazing, awesome, incredible library volunteers at our annual thank you lunch.

Front Row (left to right): Jasmina Girigan, Bob Zeff, Dwight Freund, Daniel Khazzoom, Mehrnaz Halimi
Back Row (left to right): Lloyd Rich, Sharyn Rich, Jolie Baron, JoAnn Freund, Leah Ezray
Not Pictured: Taliah Berger, Gay Tanner, Ruth O'Riva

KOH NEW ARRIVALS - JULY

Come and check out the latest new books available now for your reading pleasure: **


In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks

The Wizard of Lies by Diana Henriques

The White Space Between by Ami Sands Brodoff

Home in the Morning by Mary Glickman

Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York by Ariel Sabar


**Remember, no matter how hot the weather is outside, the KOH Library is always a cool place to be:-)

KOH BOOK CLUB - JULY

The July KOH Book Club meeting will be held Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 7 p.m. Leslie Cohen will be leading our discussion of the book , "The Frozen Rabbi", by Steve Stern.

Stern’s uproarious and trouncing romp through the anguish and ironies of the Jewish diaspora matches mysticism with mayhem, beatitude with organized crime, creativity with crassness. The madcap, at times, surreal action revolves around Rabbi Eliezer ben Zephyr, whose out-of-body journeys to the realm of the divine result in his being frozen in a block of ice in the Jewish Pale in 1889, a frigid relic that becomes one family’s problematic inheritance.

Newcomers always welcome!

SPECIAL FILM AND SPEAKER

Please join us on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 2 p.m. as we welcome Joe Rosenbaum to the KOH Library and Cultural Center. We will show Mr. Rosenbaum's film, "The Children's Odyssey".

This seldom told true story tells of Mr. Rosenbaum's Holocaust experience and the compelling story of a group of Polish Jewish children, mainly orphans, who are now known as the "Children of Tehran".

Mr Rosenbaum will speak after the film.

$5 suggested donation which includes light refreshments.

This program is co-sponsored by the Sacramento Chapter of Hadassah.