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Fiction
Cathleen Schine: The Three Weissmanns
of Westport: A Novel
1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2 (WB)
In this novel set to be an HBO series, a
woman about to be divorced leaves with
her daughters for a small cottage, where
they learn lessons of love, life and human
nature.
Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel:
The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and
Friendship
1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8 (WB)
7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8 (OP)
Two best friends keep in touch over the
years through letters and recipes. Along
the way they share stories of love and fam-
ily and confront a terrible secret.
Gary Shteyngart: Super Sad True Love
Story: A Novel
6:45 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8 (WB)
Another brilliant satire from Shteyngart,
this time focusing on Lenny Abramov,
who is in love with books and Eunice
Park, a super-cute but super-cruel girl.
And to top off everything: The country is
falling apart.
Jessica Jiji: Sweet Dates in Basra: A
Novel
9:45 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10 (WB)
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10 (OP)
A Jewish family and an Arab family are
close friends in this story of life in Iraq
before and after World War II.
Sharon Pomerantz: Rich Boy
10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11 (WB)
1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11 (OP)
Robert Vishniak leaves behind the life of a
poor Jewish boy to emerge as a star at an
elite university in New England. Rich Boy
follows Robert's life through the years and
the challenge he faces when a girl from his
past threatens to unravel his meticulously
crafted identity.
Nancy Sims: Verbal Snacks
10 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 14 (WB)
Verbal Snacks is a yummy collection of
short stories with heart and humor. 0
Nonfiction
Marilyn Berger: This Is a Soul: The
Mission of Rick Hodes
6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2 (WB)
Rick Hodes is an observant Jew who left
behind a comfortable life in the United States
to help the poor in Ethiopia in this inspiring
story of compassion and commitment.
Richard Nixon was certain that columnist
Jack Anderson was responsible for his loss
in the 1960 presidential election. So he
decided to have him killed. Poisoning the
Press looks at how scandal came to be de
rigueur in Washington and the incredible
cast of characters who changed the face of
politics and the press.
Stuart E. Weisberg: Barney Frank: The
Story of America's Only Left-Handed,
Gay, Jewish Congressman
6:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3 (WB)
No one could accuse Barney Frank of being
just another politician. Learn the real story
behind this extraordinary figure, chair of
the House Financial Services Committee
and an outspoken supporter of gay rights.
Howard N. Lupovitch: Jews and Judaism
in World History
11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 4 (WB)
Romance! Murder! Mystery! Intrigue! No
— not a new TV series, but Jewish history.
Jews and Judaism in World History tells
the story of the Jewish people for the past
2,500 years.
Mark Avrom Feldstein: Poisoning the
Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson,
and the Rise of Washington's Scandal
Culture
8:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3 (WB)
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4 (OP)
Gary M. Pomerantz: The Devil's Tickets:
A Night of Bridge, A Fatal Hand and a
New American Age
1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4 (WB)
A fun evening of bridge turns to murder in
this true account of Jack and Myrtle Bennett.
Followed from 3-5 p.m. by an ACBL-
sanctioned bridge game benefiting Bridge
Today and Tomorrow (a nonprofit that
teaches bridge to school students). Cost
of the game is $5 per person. To register,
RSVP to Lindagol@aol.com .
Global Day Of Jewish Learning —
Erica Brown: Confronting Scandal: How
Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad
Things
1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 (WB)
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 (OP)
Erica Brown examines the complex ques-
tion of how Jews should respond when
other Jews are involved in scandal.
Paul Gross: Extreme Michigan Weather:
The Wild World of the Great Lakes State
4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14 (WB)
It's hot and it's cold, it's yes and it's no.
Learn why our state's weather is so
extreme, along with the mysteries of sud-
den storms, high winds and floods with
WDIV's Paul Gross.
Sue Fishkoff: Kosher Nation: Why More
and More of America's Food Answers to
a Higher Authority
1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14 (OP)
The Rebbe's Army author Sue Fishkoff
reveals the surprising details of the kosher
food industry and considers why 85 per-
cent of the 11.2 million Americans who
regularly buy kosher food are not obser-
vant Jews.
Gal Beckerman: When They Come for Us
We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle To Save
Soviet Jewry
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14 (OP)
After viewing newly released government
documents and conducting hundreds
of interviews with former refuseniks
and activists, Gal Beckerman unraveled
the story of the Soviet Jewry movement,
including a devoted, and unlikely, group of
heroes.
Memoir
Lee Kravitz: Unfinished Business: One
Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying To
Do the Right Things
10:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 (WB)
4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 (OP)
Lee Kravitz was consumed by work. Then
he was laid off, and his life began. Kravitz
discusses the transforming journeys he
took to a refugee camp in Kenya, a desert
in Iran and many others.
Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn:
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Story
6:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 (WB)
Actors/writers and husband/wife team
Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn recall
the good, the bad and the very funny
about married life in this book written in
alternating he says/she says chapters.
Jake Ehrenreich: A Jew Grows In
Brooklyn: The Curious Reflections Of A
First-Generation American
8:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8 (WB)
Broadway star Jake Ehrenreich brings
readers along on a sentimental journey
as he writes of his childhood, coming-of-
age lessons and tales from the lives of his
Holocaust survivor parents.
who her mother really was; after speak-
ing with Suzy's friends and acquain-
tances, she discovered an incredible,
unexpected woman.
Katherine Rosman: If You Knew Suzy:
A Mother, a Daughter, a Reporter's
Notebook
Noon Sunday, Nov. 14 (WB)
Suzy Rosman was 60 when she died of
lung cancer. Her daughter, Wall Street
Journal reporter Katherine Rosman, was
devastated. Then she began to wonder
Dani Shapiro: Devotion: A Memoir
1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14 (WB)
Nearing her mid-40s and inspired by her
son's questions about everything in the
world, Dani Shapiro reflected on her own
existence, meeting with spiritual leaders
from many faiths and considering the
best way to live. Li