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Tuesday, November 8 (continued)
6:30 p.m.
Noon
Mitchell Bard
The Arab Lobby: The Invisible
Alliance That Undermines America's
Interests in the Middle East
HADASSAH LUNCHEON
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Francisco Goldman
Say Her Name: A Novel
In Say Her Name, author and investigative
journalist Francisco Goldman tells the story
of his wife, Aura Estrada, who died after an
accident at the beach and whose absence left him
inconsolable.
"Passionate and moving," raved The New York Times Book Review
and filled with a portrait of "the astonishing, spirited, deeply original
young woman Goldman so adored...so remarkable is this
resurrection that at times I felt the book itself had a pulse."
Goldman, who attended the University of Michigan, also is the
author of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
Sponsored by the Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah
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Author presentataion is free and open to the public.
Lunch at noon, speaker at 1 p.m.
To register, please call the Hadassah office at 248.683.5030.
For more than 70 years, the Arab lobby has
had a quiet but powerful influence on
American policy - despite the fact that the
governments it represents oppose everything
for which the United States stands.
Using a wide range of tactics from bribes to threats, the Arab lobby
has managed to convince American politicians to look the other way
when it comes to their human rights abuses and financial and moral
support of terrorism. Exactly how did this lobby come about, how
dangerous is it to Israel and why are American politicians so eager to
placate it?
Mitchell Bard, an American foreign policy analyst, editor and author,
is executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
and the Jewish Virtual Library.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council, Stand With Us - Michigan,
Zionist Organization of America - Michigan Region
7:30 p.m.
Reservation required by October 2S
Jack Boxer and Alva Dworkin
Gefrishte Mayses - Twice Told Tales In English and Yiddish
(See description 2:30 p.m. November 7)
1 p.m.
Avrom Bendavid-Val
The Heavens Are Empty:
Discovering the Lost City of Trochenbrod
IRWIN SHAW NIGHT
8 p.m.
Co-sponsored by The Active Life
6:15 p.m.
Gilad Sharon
The Life of a Leader
Avrom Bendavid-Val
The Heavens Are Empty: Discovering
the Lost Town of Trochenbrod
Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
is one of Israel's most formidable figures. Born
in pre-state Israel, he served as a commander
in the Israel Defense Forces and fought in the
War of Independence, the Six-Day War and the
Yom Kippur War. Next, he joined the Likud
Party and served as prime minister from
2001-2006.
Trochenbrod was a small village in the Ukraine
with a large Jewish community of mostly farmers.
And then it disappeared.
First the Soviets invaded the town; then the
Nazis turned it into a ghetto. By the end of the
war, fewer than 40 Jews from Trochenbrod
remained.
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Avrom Bendavid-Val's grandfather and father
lived in Trochenbrod, and the two men often spoke of a charming
little town far apart from the rest of the world, a place with seven
synagogues, a candy store, bakeries, furniture makers, a restaurant,
and where life was happy.
Today, Trochenbrod (the setting for Jonathan Safran Foer's
Everything is Illuminated, where it is called Trachimbrod) is only
dirt and fields. In The Heavens Are Empty, Avrom Bendavid-Val
brings it to life.
Co-sponsored by The Active Life, David Horodoker Organization, Jewish Genealogical
Society of Michigan
"No matter how busy you may think you are,
you must find time for reading, or surrender
yourself to self-chosen ignorance." - confticious
G1LAD SHARON
Sharon's son, Gilad, offers an extraordinary look at a complex,
passionate man who has forever shaped the past, present and future
State of Israel.
Co-sponsored by Friends of the Israel Defense Forces-Michigan Chapter Israel Bonds
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