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Sunday, November 6 (continued)
7:45 p.m.
4 p.m. Family Program
Nathan Wolfe
The Viral Storm:
The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
Harriet Morse
Does This Make Me Beautiful?
Does a certain pair of jeans or type
of shirt make a person beautiful? How
about a shiny gold necklace? Harriet
thinks these are things that can make her
beautiful. And she is sure that her red hair
and freckles do not help. But will an old
family mirror teach Harriet what true beauty really means?
Co-sponsored by Center Day Camps, Henry & Delia Meyers Library and Media Center;
Jewish Parents Institute (JPI), Program for Holocaust Survivors c,?- Families, Federation's
Shalom Family Shalom Street, Sarah & Irving Pitt Child Development Center, PJ Library,
Temple Israel Libraries & Media Center
5:30 p.m.
Jay Michaelson
God vs. Gay? The Religious Case
for Equality
GOD vs. GAY?
The Religious Case for Equality
JAY MICHAELSON
Are religious practice and homosexuality
compatible?
THE DAWN OF A NEW
Wolfe is constantly in motion, traveling throughout the world in
search of dangerous disease. It's not work for the faint of heart: every
day Wolfe manages a myriad of contaminated blood samples and
strange viruses (he himself almost died of malaria).
In The Viral Storm, Nathan Wolfe considers some of the world's most
deadly viruses, including HIV and swine flu, and why another global
pandemic may be just around the corner.
Co-sponsored by Beaumont Health System, Book Friends Book Club
In God vs. Gay, author, teacher and observant Jew
Jay Michaelson asks how religion can seemingly
condemn homosexuality and yet wholeheartedly
embrace compassion. In fact, he says, support of
loving others far outweighs the limited, and often misinterpreted,
passages about homosexuality.
A graduate of Yale Law School, Columbia and Hebrew University,
Jay Michaelson is executive director of Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture
and Spirituality, a nonprofit organization for gay-lesbian-bisexual and
transgender Jews and the author of three books and numerous articles,
including publication in the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
Co-sponsored by Jewish Gay Network
6:15 p.m.
Benjamin G. Frank
A Scattered Tribe: Traveling the
Diaspora from Cuba to India
to Tahiti & Beyond
Dubbed the "Indiana Jones of virus hunters"
and named one of the 100 Most Influential
People of 2011 by Time magazine (which
described him as "the swashbuckling virolo-
pANDEMIC AGE
gist" who "runs the CIA of infectious disease"),
NATHAN WOLFE
Nathan Wolfe is founder and director of the
Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, which studies new and emerging
infectious diseases.
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Join author Ben G. Frank for an odyssey to
discover exotic Jewish communities around
the globe.
Jewish travelers have long combed far-off lands
in search of the last fragments of the scattered
tribe. A roadmap of travel and adventure set in
Russia, Tahiti, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Cuba,
Morocco, Algeria and Israel, A Scattered Tribe
takes readers to new worlds and extraordinary co mmunities.
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Frank, a travel writer and a journalist, has been recording his
observations and experiences for more than half a century.
Co-sponsored by the American Technion Society, Janice Charach Gallery Center Travel
Find your happy ending at the
60th Annual Jewish Book Fair!
"When you sell a man a book you don't sell him
just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you
sell him a whole new life." - Christopher Morley
www.jccdet.org/bookfair
Monday, November 7
DAY UNDERWRITTEN BY ESTHER & NEAL ZALENKO
11 a.m.
Darin Strauss
Half a Life: A Memoir
HALF A LIFE
"Half my life ago, I killed a girl:"
So begins Darin Strauss' extraordinary memoir,
which won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle
Award for best autobiography, was named a New
York Times Editor's Pick and a NPR Best Book of
the Year, and which All Catterall of the BBC
called "one of the best books I ever read:'
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Celine Zilke was 16, a classmate of Strauss, but no one he knew well. Her
bike swerved in front of his car and was struck. The next day, she died.
For years, Strauss struggled with a complex collection of feelings from
guilt to sadness to relief at being alive to perhaps the most difficult of all:
the forgetting that invariably comes with time.
Strauss also is the author of a number of works of fiction including
Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy.
Co-sponsored by B'nai B'rith International — Great Lakes Region
1 p.m.
Melissa Fay Greene
No Biking in the House
Without A Helmet
With four children, Atlanta journalist Melissa
Fay Greene and her husband, a criminal defense
attorney, adopted five more – one form Bulgaria
and four from Ethiopia. Her comical account of
the adoption process and life with nine children
will capture the heart of readers everywhere.
Melissa Fay Greene
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"Love knows no bounds—and no borders—in journalist Greene's
ebullient valentine to her family of nine children . . . 'Who made you
the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe?' a friend quips, but Greene
doesn't apologize. Instead, she shows what it means to knit together a
family that 'steers by the light . . . of what feels right and true:" —
Caroline Leavitt, People (four stars)
Co-sponsored by the Jean & Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy — Parent Council
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