Lynn Portnoy
2:30 p.m.
Author of:
fern Shumer Chapman
Going Like Lynn: new York
Acclaimed travel expert Lynn Portnoy shares
her top travel tips from her latest travel
primer for women. She will demonstrate the
art of successful packing for a trip to the "Big
Apple." Co-sponsored by: JCC Travel
Martin Goldsmith
6:30 p.m.
The Inextinguishable
Symphony: fi True
Story of Music and
Loue in nazi Germany
Set against the backdrop of Nazi Germany,
this is the riveting story of two Jewish musicians who struggle to per-
form under unimaginable circumstances - and fall in love.
Beautifully told by their son, Martin Goldsmith, this poignant
account recalls a slice of Holocaust history that has heretofore
gone largely untold and tells the remarkable love story of how a
heroic flutist and violinist overcame impossible odds to remain
together. Goldsmith is senior commentator for National Public
Radio. From 1989 to 1999, he hosted Performance Today, NPR's
daily classical music program.
Co-sponsored by: Hidden Children, Holocaust Education Coalition
Dauid Liss
8 p.m.
Author of:
H Conspiracy of Paper
Set in 18th Century London, this well
researched and highly entertaining histori-
cal novel is the story of detective Benjamin
Weaver, who takes a break from tracking
down thieves to investigate the death of his
father, a stock trader. Weaver's search takes him deep into places
both new, London's financial market, and personal, the Jewish
community which he had long ago abandoned. A first-time nov-
elist, Liss is currently a doctoral student in the department of English
at Columbia University.
Co-sponsored by; Tam O'Shanter Country Club
Rabbi Raryn Redar
JP111 Building...8 p.m.
Author of:
God Whispers: Stories of the
Soul, Lessons of the Heart
By sharing significant moments in the lives of
ordinary people, Rabbi Kedar guides us on
a journey to spiritual awareness and under-
standing. She hopes to inspire us to rediscover a world full of the
wonders of creation. Rabbi Kedar serves as the director of the
Great Lakes Region of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
Co-sponsored by: JCC Jewish Life and Learning Department
Wednesday, Ilouember 8, 2000
Day underwritten by: The Rahn Family Foundation, Doan and Ilosanchuk
families Book fair fund, Ray and Iltara Zimmerman
Fern Shumer Chapman and Anne Roiphe are co-sponsored by
Auxiliary for Jewish Home and Aging Services-Women's Auxiliary,
Brandeis University National Women's Committee, CHAIM,
Congregation Beth Ahm, Congregation Beth Shalom Sisterhood
and National Council of Jewish Women-Greater Detroit Section.
10 a.m.
Author of:
Motherland
Chapman and her mother, a Holocaust
escapee, travel back to Germany for the
first time, a trip meant to confront a horrible
past, which instead, opens the way to a
clearer future. It is a story of learning to live
with the past, of remembering and honoring while looking forward
and letting go. Motherland is a narrative of personal transforma-
tions and an examination of the legacy of war. Chapman, a for-
mer reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Forbes, has taught at
Northwestern Universitys Medill School of Journalism.
Lunch is Serued
11:45 a.m.
See registration form inside back cover to register.
finne Roiphe
1 p.m.
Author of:
For Rabbit,
With Loue and Squalor
In a thrilling exploration of how what we
read influences who we are, Roiphe details
her own imagined romances with the
favorite characters of her adult reading life, and how they affect-
ed the plot lines. Beginning with The Catcher in the Rye, moving
through time to Hemingways Nick Adams, Roiphe examines how
these fictitious characters influenced what she believed about life,
love and herself. She is a columnist for the New York Observer and
the Jerusalem Report.
Dauid Hays
2:30 p.m.
Author of:
Today I fim fl Boy
At the age of 66, Hays decides to become
a Bar Mitzvah. As he struggles to learn
Hebrew alongside his rowdy classmates, his
long dormant love of learning is rekindled.
Its the stage of life when most of us begin
to slow down, but Hays feels more alive than ever, rejuvenated by
newfound mysteries of his youth and faith. David Hays was the set
and lighting designer for more than 50 Broadway plays and musi-
cals, 30 ballets at the New York City Ballet, and operas for the
Metropolitan Opera Association. He is also the founder of the
National Theatre for the Deaf.
Co-sponsored by: Fresh Air Society/Tamarack Camps
Jonathan Rosen
6:30 p.m.
Author of:
The Talmud and the Internet
Jonathan Rosen brings together techndlogy
and ancient texts in this rare look at religion's
place in the modern world. He draws
remarkable parallels between the Talmud
and the Internet, including their ability to
connect communities that would otherwise be broken, despite
their seemingly unyielding contextual vastness. Rosen is cultural
editor of The Forward, a New York-based Jewish newspaper.
Co-sponsored by: Michigan State University-Jewish Studies
Program