Lori's Lunch N' Learn for Jan/Feb 2021
Lori's Lunch N' Learn for Nov/Dec 2020
Readings can be found here:
Week 1 (Nov 6) - Reading 1 Reading 2 Reading 3
Week 2 (Nov 13) - Reading 1 Reading 2 Reading 3
Week 3 (Nov 20 - Reading 1 Reading 2 Reading 3
Week 4 (Dec 4) - Reading 1 Reading 2 Reading 3
Week 5 (Dec 11) - Reading 1 Reading 2
WHAT TO READ NEXT:
Jewish Fiction
- The Book of V by Anna Solomon*
- Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland*
- The Imperfects by Amy Myerson*
- To Be a Man by Nicole Kraus
- House on Endless Waters by Emuna Elon
- Beyond the Ghetto Gates by Michelle Cameron*
- An Unorthodox Match by Naomi Ragen
- The Third Daughter by Talia Carner*
- The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross*
- The Last Interview by Eshkol Nevo
- Exile Music by Jennifer Steil*
- Liar by Ayelet Gundar Goshen*
Non-Jewish Fiction
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
- His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
- Group by Christie Tate
- Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
- All Adults Here by Emma Straub
- Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
- Anxious People by Fred Bachman
- A Star is Bored by Byron Lane
- The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
Non Fiction
- Wandering Dixie by Sue Eisenfeld*^
- Getting Good at Getting Older by Rabbi Laura Geller and Richard Siegel*^
- When the World Feels Like a Scary Place by Dr. Abigail Gewirtz*^
- Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb*^
- The Art of Leaving by Ayelet Tsabari
- The Best of Me by David Sedaris
- The Unanswered Letter by Faris Cassell*
- The Betrayal of the Duchess by Maurice Samuels*
- Becoming Eve by Abby Stein*^
- Demagogue by Larry Tye*^
*Indicates book in TBI library
^Indicates speakers speaking at TBI sometime through June. Check Torah at TBI for details.
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WHAT TO WATCH NEXT:
- Your Honor – Showtime (premiers December 6, 2020) Based on the Israeli series Kvodo
- Fauda – Netflix (3 seasons)
- When Heroes Fly – Netflix (1 season) Apple TV is producing an American version, Echo 3 (not yet available)
- Shtisel – Netflix (2 seasons) Season 3 will be available in June 2021.
- The US adaptation Emmis, set in New York, is coming soon.
- Unorthodox – Netflix (4 episodes) Shira Haas also stars in the new Israeli film Asia which premiered in April 2020.
- Stockholm – Amazon Prime (4 episodes)
- The Baker and the Beauty – Amazon Prime (1 season)
- Tehran – Apple TV (1 season)
- The Spy – Netflix (1 season)
- Our Boys – HBO (1 season)
- Srugim – Amazon Prime (1 season)
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Readings for Friday, August 21:
http://southjerusalem.com/2017/08/paper-rule-necessary-stories-from-the-jerusalem-report/
https://momentmag.com/fiction-what-if-ive-changed-my-mind/
Readings for Friday, August 28:
https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2013-winter/selections/shula-rosen-342846/
https://momentmag.com/vanished-jews-of-hetta/
Readings for Friday, September 4:
https://www.thecommononline.org/operation-tamar/
https://porterhousereview.org/articles/sister-salamander-and-the-dybbuk/?fbclid=IwAR0y3_odhA4UmaxXEsryDr3E7yzgyX0nZqmxMrFqLmyRRnu6yo91seaVQk8
Readings for Friday, September 11:
https://momentmag.com/fiction-the-eleventh-happiest-country/
http://www.ilanotreview.com/migrations/circle-of-friends/
Friday, July 24, 2020
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/woke-america-russian-novel
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/mother-tongue-dorit-rabinyan
Friday, July 17, 2020
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/ashes-to-ashes?fbclid=IwAR2nt2CK7K3ebGh1xvnjeTGNrYHnsmoCCFn198NkEn3NpF0OEkQTSoFaaoQ
Friday, July 10, 2020
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/social-justice-solipsism
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/department-stores-going-out-of-business
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/what-can-jews-learn-from-missionaries
Friday, June 19, 2020
Friday, June 12, 2020
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/food-culture
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/doidge-science-says-plague-journal
https://forward.com/opinion/448329/can-jews-and-african-americans-rebuild-their-1960s-alliance/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20RSS_Test&utm_maildate=06/09/2020
Friday, June 5, 2020
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/holidays/articles/abraham-lincoln-shavuot-controversy-1865
https://forward.com/opinion/447723/my-fellow-jews-get-in-the-fight/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20RSS_Test&utm_maildate=06/01/2020
https://forward.com/news/national/447733/letter-from-los-angeles-what-the-old-jewish-radical-taught-me-about-george/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20RSS_Test&utm_maildate=06/01/2020
Friday, May 22, 2020
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/rediscovering-shabbat
https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/ruth-first-convert-model-welcome
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-converting-to-judaism-doesn-t-have-to-be-so-hard-1.5366706
Friday, May 15, 2020
https://forward.com/opinion/446112/weve-debated-ourselves-into-irrelevance-over-liberalism-and-zionism/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%20Newsletter%20(Sunday%20RSS)&utm_maildate=05/11/2020
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/cancel-mothers-day
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/armin-coronavirus-erledigen
Friday, May 8, 2020
https://forward.com/fast-forward/445572/new-york-city-mayor-bill-de-blasio-has-a-long-relationship-with-the-city-s/
https://www.kveller.com/mah-jongg-was-my-escape-during-lockdown-its-helping-me-gain-control/?utm_source=kveller_maropost&utm_campaign=kveller&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-18883-64772&utm_source=mjl_maropost&utm_campaign=MJL&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-18952-48780
https://forward.com/news/445540/love-online-in-the-time-of-quarantine-is-it-better-than-ever/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%20Newsletter%20(Sunday%20RSS)&utm_maildate=05/04/2020
Friday, May 1, 2020
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/bernard-henri-levy-coronavirus
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/a-new-leaf-cannabis (Article from last week)
Friday, April 24, 2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/anti-semitism-new-normal-america/608017/
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/a-new-leaf-cannabis
Friday, April 17, 2020
https://forward.com/life/443256/feeling-jewish-peoplehood-in-the-time-of-corona/
https://forward.com/opinion/443757/coronavirus-is-deepening-the-divide-between-orthodox-and-liberal-jews/
https://zoom.us/j/96203692749
Friday, April 10, 2020 - Reading
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/1476/my-lamented-sister
Friday, April 3, 2020 - Reading
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/the-festival-of-cleaning
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/prepackaged-for-passover
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - Reading
https://tbiskokie.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/102218-Lori-Sagarin-story-Drawn-from-the-Water.pdf