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The Growth of Trees with Michael Wojtech

The Nature Museum Grafton, Vermont

No single view of a tree is a fixed snapshot in time that tells the complete story. Join Michael and discover how trees grow, reproduce, and interact with their environment […]

UnCharitable Documentary at Regent Theatre, Arlington

Regent Theatre Arlington, Massachusetts

About “UnCharitable” After three of the most dynamic and successful U.S. charities were shut down by conservative charity watchdogs, destroying lives and cutting off precious resources, many of the top […]

Talk & Taste: German-Jewish Holiday Celebration

Essex Market 88 Essex St, New York, United States

Join us for some local history, a bit of entertainment and storytelling, and a good nosh! Throughout its history, the Lower East Side has been home to nearly every immigrant […]

$25

UnCharitable Documentary at Strand Theatre

Strand Theatre

Friday, December 1st - 2:00pm Saturday, December 2nd - 2:00pm What if charity could be transformed from a gesture to an answer— to solving the world’s greatest problems? What if […]

Illustrator Kate Feiffer at Edgartown Books

Edgartown Books 44 Main Street, Edgartown, MA, United States

Join Kate Feiffer, Vineyard-based illustrator of The Lamb Cycle: What the Great English Poets Would Have Written About Mary and Her Lamb (Had They Thought of It First), for a book […]

Paula Birnbaum in Conversation at Boston Athenaeum

Boston Athenaeum 10 1/2 Beacon St, Boston, United States

Join Paula J. Birnbaum, author of Sculpting a Life: Chana Orloff Between Paris and Tel Aviv, in conversation with Bill Kuhn at the Boston Athenaeum.

Author Susan Kahn with the Jewish Women’s Archive

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Join Susan Kahn, author of Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel for a virtual reading with the Jewish Women's Archive. Canine Pioneer tells the story of Rudolphina Menzel, […]

Book Release Party: Birdwatching in Maine

Maine Beer Company 525 US Route 1, Freeport, Maine

Join Freeport Wild Bird Supply and Maine Beer Company to celebrate the release of the 2nd Edition of Birdwatching in Maine.​   With over 470 species of birds recorded, Maine offers an abundance of birding opportunities for people of all levels of interest and experience, from those looking beyond their backyards for the first time […]

“The Second Conversation” Book Launch

Brandeis University

The Second Conversation: Interpretive Authority in the Bible Classroom In person at Brandeis University (3:30-5:00 pm ET) and via Zoom (3:30-4:15 pm ET) A discussion, reception, and book signing with Ziva Hassenfeld (Brandeis University), author of The Second Conversation: Interpretive Authority in the Bible Classroom. This book is part of the Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish […]

Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino at Brookline Booksmith

Brookline Booksmith 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA

In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of Mazaltob with translators Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino. Register for the event! RSVP to let us know you're coming! Depending on the volume of responses, an RSVP may be required for entrance to the event. You will also be alerted to important details about the program, […]

Mazaltob: Sephardi Women in Translation

Vilna Shul 18 Phillips St, Boston, MA

Join us for a book launch celebration and discussion featuring translators/editors Frances Malino and Dr. Yaëlle Azagury and moderated by Jonathan Decter. Mazaltob, by Blanche Bendahan, is a fascinating portrait of a young Moroccan Sephardi woman as she navigates the ever-shifting ground between tradition and modernity, East and West, self and other, obligation and desire. Stylistically […]

$18

The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America

Suffolk University Commons 120 Tremont St, Boston, MA

  Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting the Black attorney Landsmarck with the American flag. The photograph shocked Boston and made front pages across the U.S. and the world and won a Pulitzer Prize. Masur has […]

Virtual Book Talk: The Weavers of Trautenau, Janine Holc in conversation with Anna Hájková

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Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surrounding towns to worksites in the Sudetenland, in today’s Czech Republic. Believing that they were helping their families to survive, these young people were thrust into a world where they laboured at […]