Rachel Ilaomi Remen, 111.D.
1 p.m.
Author of:
Illy Grandfather's Blessings:
Stories of Strength, Refuge
and Belonging
An internationally-known physician and
speaker, Dr. Remen's book unifies stories of her patients and
her grandfather, an Orthodox rabbi and scholar of the
Kabbalah, to depict ways in which illness and death can
bring hope, prudence and transformation to people's lives.
My Grandfather's Blessings is a book for the mind, body and
soul, which reminds us of the power of our kindness and the
joy of being alive. Author of the best-selling Kitchen Table
Wisdom, Dr. Remen is a clinical professor of family and com-
munity medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine and co-founder and medical director of
the Commonweal Cancer Help Program.
Sponsored by: Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah
Joseph Berger ....JP 111
2 p.m.
See Tuesday, Nov. 13, 6:30 p.m. for details
Wednesday, Nu. 14, 2001
Day underwritten by: flndrea L. and Lawrence fl. Wolfe
Family foundation and Bea and Boris Katz
m. Gary Illeuman.
10 a.m.
Author of:
Emotional Infidelity
Are you investing time with a co-worker
of the opposite sex? If so, you may be
committing emotional infidelity. This
brand-new definition of infidelity might
enrage and provoke couples and force
them into marital self-examination. A rabbi and marriage
counselor, M. Gary Neuman has written a controversial guide
to keeping your marriage on solid ground. He is a popular
and frequent guest on Oprah, where he speaks on divorce
and its impact on children.
Sponsored by: Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan
Detroit
lunch is serued
11:45 a.m.
Co-sponsored by: MiChigon State University-Jewish Studies
Program and Congregation'Beth Ahm Men's Club
See registration form inside back cover to register.
Joseph Berger
Susan Isaacs
6:30 p.m.
Displaced Persons: Growing Up
fimerican filter the Holocaust
Joseph Berger shares his account of his
family's immigration from Eastern Europe
when he was five years old. Displaced
Persons chronicles the story of how they rebuilt their lives in a
new country after World War II. Growing up as the son of
immigrant parents , Mr. Berger often found himself in two
worlds, as most children of immigrants do. He struggled with
parents who were bewildered with the new language and
lifestyle, as well as the unimaginable loss and loneliness that
often comes with adapting to a new culture and life. Mr.
Berger is a veteran writer and deputy education editor for The
New York Times.
Co-sponsored by: Michigan State University-Jewish Studies
Program and Congregation Beth Ahm Men's Club
flhuuah Gray ..
See Tuesday, Nov. 13,
Co-sponsored by: A
HaTorah
Building 7:30 p.m.
. for details
or Jewish Education and Aish
frank Rich
8 p.m.
Author of:
Ghost Light: fi Memoir
Frank Rich shares his incredible love of
the theater and Broadway in this won-
derfully written memoir. His relationship
with the stage began at an early age
and continued as a teenager working at
the Washington National Theater, which became his second
home. Mr. Rich's enchantment with the theater has contin-
ued throughout his adult life, eventually leading him to
become The New York Times' chief theater critic for 13 years.
Mr. Rich is currently an op-ed columnist for The New York
Times.
Co-sponsored by: Temple Beth El Sisterhood and Temple Beth
El Brotherhood
1 p.m.
Author of:
Author of:
Long Time no See
Judith Singer, the heroine of Isaacs's
Compromising Positions, is back after 20
years! Long Time No See is Susan Isaacs's
latest novel, in which her beloved char-
acter Judith, the housewife with an incli-
nation to solve homicides, finds herself once again in the
thick of it! This novel is an entertaining mix of love, murder
and humor. Ms. Isaacs is the author of several best-selling nov-
els.
Co-sponsored by: National Council of Jewish Women,
Women's American ORT-Michigan Region, Congregation
Beth Shalom Sisterhood, Auxiliary for Jewish Home and Aging
Services and Brandeis University National Women's
Committee
Sam Roberts
6:30 p.m.
Author of:
The Brother
Sam Roberts has published his interviews
of David Greenglass, brother of Ethel
Rosenberg and her husband Julius
Rosenberg, the only convicted spies to
be put to death by the United States for
treason. The year was 1951 when they were convicted
through testimony by Greenglass, who also was convicted
but received a prison sentence of 15 years. In 1953, the
Rosenbergs were executed. Now, almost 50 years later,
Greenglass is claiming he perjured himself, sending his sister
and her husband to their deaths. Sam Roberts is a New York
Times reporter and host of NY-1's cable talk show New York
Close-Up.
Co-sponsored by: Tau Epsilon Rho Law Society and Cardozo
Law Society of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
m. Gary Amman ....JP111
7:30 p.m.
See 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14 for description.
Co-sponsored by: Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropoli-
tan Detroit