The 2011 Adult B'nai Mitzvah class will lead our Shabbat morning services and sponsor the Kiddush
We will be discussing Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman (2012), 254 pages. This book is a memoir of a woman who left her life in the Hasidic Satmar community in Brooklyn.
Located at Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield and Emagine in Royal Oak
2 pm (not 1:30 pm) We will discuss Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret by Steven Luxenberg (2009), 401 pages. This is a memoir.
We will be discussing The man in the white sharkskin suit: my family's exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucille Lagnado (2007), 340 pages. This book is a memoir of a Jewish woman whose family led a comfortable life in Cairo until the rise of Nasser, after which they had to emigrate to Paris and then the United States. The title of the book refers to the author's father. There are many parallels with the father in Palace Walk, although the family in that book was Muslim