WITH AUTHOR SUSAN HIRSHMAN

As Susan Hirshman sees it, the rules of successful dieting are the same rules that apply to successful money management. In this upbeat and informative guide, she offers women a three phase personalized plan that follows common dieting programs to help them understand their finances. Susan offers specific advice on topics such as how to develop realistic and attainable goals, how to make smart financial decisions, and how to etermine the best way to invest based on the reader’s “investment personality.”

Ms. Hirshman is president of SHE LTD, a consulting firm focused on enhancing the financial literacy of women globally. Formerly she was a managing director and wealth manager with one of the world’s top financial services organizations. In addition to being a CPA she is also a CFA and a CFP.

Co-sponsored with the Adult Department.

WITH AUTHOR DAVID SAX

As a journalist and life-long deli obsessive, David Sax was understandably alarmed by the state of Jewish delicatessen. A cuisine that had once sat at the very center of Jewish life had become endangered by assimilation, homogenization, and health food trends. He watched one beloved deli after another shut down, one institution after another shutter only to be reopened as some bland chain-restaurant laying claim to the very culture it just paved over. And so David set out on a journey across the United States and around the world in search of authentic delicatessen. Was it still possible to Save the Deli? Join David as he investigates everything deli–its history, its diaspora, its next generation.

Los Angeles Times Bestseller, winner of the 2010 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Memoir and Winner of a 2010 James Beard Award.

WITH AUTHOR DANI SHAPIRO

Devotion is Dani Shapiro’s highly personal search for something to believe. Shapiro, raised in an Orthodox home, left the rules and rituals of her childhood far behind as she lived a modern, fast-paced, urban life as a working wife and mother. It was only when her young son began to question her about what she believed, that she realized she no longer knew. She had opted out. So she opted back in, as she embarked on a journey which took her from meditation retreats to yoga shalas to visits with her Orthodox relatives. A spiritual detective story at once deeply intimate and completely universal, Devotion tells the story of one woman whose search for answers brings her home again.

Shapiro appeared on The Today Show for Devotion, which was chosen as one of their best books this winter. O Magazine called it a “must read” and People magazine gave it four stars for being “brave, compelling and unexpectedly witty.”

WITH AUTHOR KATHERINE ROSMAN

On the day their sixty-yearold mother Suzy died of lung cancer, Katherine Rosman and her sister Lizzie took their mom’s Visa card out for one last spin. It was with this kind of irreverence that they faced their mother’s disease and death—and their own struggle to balance the agony of losing her with their relief that she was no longer suffering.

Driven by grief and haunted by the idea that she would only ever remember her mother as a cancer victim, Wall Street Journal culture reporter Rosman began digging into Suzy’s past, using her professional acumen to research an extremely personal subject: Who was Suzy? The book is a very funny and heart-rending celebration of a strong, vibrant, vital woman and a defining mother-daughter relationship that will strike a chord with parents and children alike.

Will be held at a private home.

sponsored by James H. Grossmann Memorial Jewish Bonth Month and Special Events, proceeds benefit JCC programming

WITH AUTHOR CATHLEEN SCHINE

When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five... He said the words “Irreconcilable differences,” and saw real confusion in his wife’s eyes. “Irreconcilable differences?” she said. “Of course there are irreconcilable differences. What on earth does that have to do with divorce?”

Thus begins The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a sparkling contemporary adaptation of Sense and Sensibility from the always winning Cathleen Schine, who has already been crowned “a modern-day Jewish Jane Austen” by People’s Leah Rozen.

Cathlene Schine is the author of The New Yorkers and The Love Letter. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review.

To be held at the home of Judy Gold.

Sponsored by James H. Grossmann Memorial Jewish Book Month and Special Events, proceeds benefit JCC programming

Judy Gold and Mara Wallach, Co-chairs

WITH AUTHOR MELVIN UROFSKY

The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court – a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.

“[A] monumental, authoritative and appreciative biography of the man Franklin D. Roosevelt callded” Isaiah”... [Urofsky] demonstrates, deploying a Brandeisan array of factual material, why Brandeis still matters, nearly 70 years after his death.” – Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Times Book Review.

Melvin I. Urofsky is Professor of Law & Public Policy and Professor Emeritus of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and was the chair of its History Department.

WITH AUTHOR MORDECAI DZIKANSKY

Meet Mordecai Dzikansky, the New York cop who became a leading authority on the phenomenon of suicide bombing. Terrorist Cop: The NYPD Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists is Morty’s story: heroic, poignant, heartrendering.

In a rare departure for homicide detectives, Morty Dzikansky has written his memoirs, describing how, working for the NYPD, he went undercover as a rabbi to chase Torah thieves and then, while on assignment in Israel, became the world’s leading authority on suicide bombings. Dzikansky discloses how too many visits to suicide bombing sites led him to become a different kind of victim from those he found at the bombing sites: He himself bacame a post trauma stress disorder victim.

Co-sponsored with Public Affairs

Sponsored in part by the Berit and Martin Bernstein Open Forum Endowment Fund and the Edwin Soforenko Foundation