Sunday, June 9, 2013
JUNE KOH LIBRARY CLOSURE
The KOH Library and Cultural Center will be closed on Sunday, June 16, 2013 in observance of Father's Day.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Guest Speaker
June 29, 2013 at 12:45 p.m. (following Shabbat services):
AIPAC Director of Policy and Government Affairs, Ambassador Brad Gordon: "Strategic Challenges: Israel and Challenging Politics in The Middle East" - free, open to all.
AIPAC Director of Policy and Government Affairs, Ambassador Brad Gordon: "Strategic Challenges: Israel and Challenging Politics in The Middle East" - free, open to all.
Guest Speaker
Please join us on June 26, 2013 at 7 p.m. when guest speaker, Hy Kashenberg, will speak on
"Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service".
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Taliah Berger: taliah@kohlcc.org
"Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service".
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Taliah Berger: taliah@kohlcc.org
KOH LIBRARY BOOK CLUB - JUNE
KOH Library Book Club Meeting - June 11, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Sara Kahn Shapiro will lead a discussion on the book, "A Grain of Truth" by Zygmunt Miloszewski.
It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw—he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly.
The victim is found brutally murdered, her body drained of blood. The killing bears the hallmarks of legendary Jewish ritual slaughter, prompting a wave of anti-Semitic paranoia in the town, where everyone knows everyone. The murdered woman's husband is bereft, but when Szacki discovers that she had a lover, the husband becomes the prime suspect. Before there's time to arrest him, he is found murdered in similar circumstances. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish–Jewish relations and something that happened more than sixty years earlier.
Sara Kahn Shapiro will lead a discussion on the book, "A Grain of Truth" by Zygmunt Miloszewski.
It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw—he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly.
The victim is found brutally murdered, her body drained of blood. The killing bears the hallmarks of legendary Jewish ritual slaughter, prompting a wave of anti-Semitic paranoia in the town, where everyone knows everyone. The murdered woman's husband is bereft, but when Szacki discovers that she had a lover, the husband becomes the prime suspect. Before there's time to arrest him, he is found murdered in similar circumstances. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish–Jewish relations and something that happened more than sixty years earlier.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
KOH Library Book Club - May 21st
KOH Book Club - May 21st at 7 p.m. This month Leslie Cohen will lead a
discussion about the book, "In Sunlight and in Shadow" by Mark Helprin.
Newcomers are always welcome!
Can love and honor conquer all?
Mark Helprin’s enchanting and sweeping novel springs from this deceptively simple question, and from the sight of a beautiful young woman, dressed in white, on the Staten Island Ferry, at the beginning of summer, 1946.
Postwar New York glows with energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, has returned home to run the family business. Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, as they each fall for the other in an instant.
Harry and Catherine pursue one another in a romance played out in Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions, the offices of financiers, and the haunts of gangsters. Catherine’s choice of Harry over her longtime fiancé endangers Harry’s livelihood and eventually threatens his life. In the end, it is Harry’s extraordinary wartime experience that gives him the character and means to fight for Catherine, and risk everything.
Can love and honor conquer all?
Mark Helprin’s enchanting and sweeping novel springs from this deceptively simple question, and from the sight of a beautiful young woman, dressed in white, on the Staten Island Ferry, at the beginning of summer, 1946.
Postwar New York glows with energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, has returned home to run the family business. Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, as they each fall for the other in an instant.
Harry and Catherine pursue one another in a romance played out in Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions, the offices of financiers, and the haunts of gangsters. Catherine’s choice of Harry over her longtime fiancé endangers Harry’s livelihood and eventually threatens his life. In the end, it is Harry’s extraordinary wartime experience that gives him the character and means to fight for Catherine, and risk everything.
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.
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
May 12th in observance of Mother's Day
May 15th and 16th in observance of Shavuot
May 26-27th in observance of Memorial Day
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