KOH Film Club - May 19th

KOH Film Club - May 19th at 2 p.m.  This month we will be showing the film, "Inventing Our Life- The Kibbutz Experiment". Please join us for this entertaining and illuminating film and our special guest, Hillel Damron, who will lead a discussion after the film. The local Jewish blog good4jews.com will be celebrating their 5th year of continuous political commentary at this event. Light refreshments will be served.  $5 suggested donation.

Set against the backdrop of the kibbutz movement's glorious 100-year history, Inventing Our Life reveals the heartbreak and hope of Israel's communal living experiment as a new generation of women and men confront an essential question: can a radically socialist institution survive a new capitalist reality?
In this "illuminating and entertaining" (Jewish Week) documentary, director Toby Perl Freilich explores the modern history of Israel, from its revolutionary settlers to the political upheaval that shook the socialist foundations of the state. With their desire to create a Jewish homeland and build a more just society, the first settlers helped place kibbutzim in the vanguard of Israeli history. In doing so, they became a magnet for all those who shared one thing in common - a powerful urge to invent their own life.

KOH Library May Closures

The KOH Library and Cultural Center will be closed on the following dates in May:

May 12th in observance of Mother's Day

May 15th and 16th in observance of Shavuot

May 26-27th in observance of Memorial Day

KOH Library Artist Series

Please join us on Sunday, April 14th at 11 a.m.  as we welcome artist Lynn Eder to the KOH Library and Cultural Center.  Lynn's specialty is handmade paper artwork.  At this special reception, Lyn will explain and demonstrate how she makes her paper.  This exhibit will be on display in the library through June 27, 2013.

KOH Library Book Club

Our April KOH Book Club meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 7 p.m. Sharon Cohen will lead us in a discussion about the book, "The Little Russian" by Susan Sherman. Newcomers are always welcome!

New Arrivals for Spring Reading

Fiction or History - Escapism or Reality - you can find it all on the shelves of KOH Library and Cultural Center.  Please come in to see what's new - or visit our catalog at kohlcc.org.

In Print:

The Book of Mischief, New and Selected Stories 
     by Steve Stern
The Wanting
     by Michael Lavigne, author of Not Me
The Inbetween People
     by Emma McEvoy
The New Jewish Table
     by Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff Gray
Berlin Ghetto; Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance
     by Eric Brothers
My Father's Gardens, a memoir
     by Karen Levy
The Retrospective, a novel
     by A.B. Yehoshua, translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman
Jacob's Folly, a novel
     by Piero degli Antoni
The Missing File, a detective mystery
     by D.A. Mishani
Jews and Words
     by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
One Hundred Philistine Foreskins, a novel
     by Tova Reich
May We Be Forgiven, a novel
     by A.M. Homes
Isaac's Army
     by Matthew Brzezinski

DVD:

The Golden Pomegranate

    

Current Events and Upcoming Programs

Upcoming Programs in the KOH Library and Cultural Center - open to the entire community.

Monday, March 11 
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Rabbi Melamed Discussion Group

Monday, March 11
7:00 PM
In Search of the Perfect Recipe  for... Passover
with Evie Lieb

Wednesday, March 20th
7:00 PM
CVHEN Program for the entire community
New Discoveries About the Kindertransport
with Jennifer Norton

New Arrivals

Please come in and browse our newest arrivals in books and DVDs. 
Some of our recent acquisitions include the following:

In Print:

Miracles and Fate on 78; A 9/11 Story of Inspiration
     by Ari Schonbrun
The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen
     by Levana Kirschenbaum
On the Eve; The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War
     by Bernard Wasserstein
The Imposter Bride, a Novel
     by Nancy Richler
A Titanic Love Story; Ida and Isadore Strauss
     by June Hall McCash
The Holocaust as Culture
     by Imre Kertesz
Zix Zexy Stories
     by Curt Leviant
Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde, a Memoir
     by Rebecca Dana
Mossad, The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
     by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal
The Story Teller, a novel
     by Jodi Picoult

On DVD:
 Free Men

Please pursue our online catalog from the comfort of your home at kohlcc.org