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SUMMARY:Judge Roy K. Altman - 2026-2027 Author Series
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nJoin us as we welcome Judge Roy K. Altman discussing his book Israel on Trial: Examining the History\, the Evidence\, and the Law.\n\n\n\nInstant NYTimes and USA Today best­seller. Since Octo­ber 7\, Judge Alt­man has giv­en hun­dreds of speech­es about Israel at church­es\, syn­a­gogues\, col­leges\, law schools\, and com­mu­ni­ty cen­ters around the coun­try. These hun­dreds of con­ver­sa­tions have shown him that the con­tem­po­rary debate in Amer­i­ca today cen­ters around six claims Israel’s adver­saries have advanced about the Jew­ish State: geno­cide\, occu­pa­tion\, apartheid\, etc. And what’s most inter­est­ing about these claims is that they’re all actu­al­ly legal in nature. In Israel On Tri­al\, Judge Alt­man removes emo­tion\, vit­ri­ol\, and rhetoric from these dis­cus­sions and applies the same judi­cial method­ol­o­gy he uses in his court­room — a time-test­ed method­ol­o­gy judges and lawyers have been apply­ing to legal claims in court­rooms across the coun­try for 250 years — to each of these six claims. Each claim gets its own chap­ter and ends with a ver­dict that will show read­ers\, using rea­son and com­mon sense\, not only that each claim is false as a mat­ter of law\, but also the extent to which the claims have been manip­u­lat­ed to min­i­mize Jew­ish suf­fer­ing and to prey on deeply held prej­u­dices about Jews.\n \nIN-PERSON at B’nai Torah Congregation | $18/person \nClick here to register\n \n\nIn partnership with \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.btcboca.org/event/roy-k-altman-2026-2027-author-series/
LOCATION:B’nai Torah Congregation\, 6261 SW 18th Street\, Boca Raton\, FL\, 33433\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Kaufman - 2026-2027 Author Series
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nJoin us as we welcome Jonathan Kauf­man discussing his book When America Roared: How the 1980s Saved\, Then Broke\, the Country–and Led Us to Today.\n\n\n\nThe panoramic story of the 1980s\, exploring the triumphs and failures of the decade that shaped the 21st century more than any other\, from a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who witnessed the transformations firsthand. \nJonathan Kauf­man has writ­ten and report­ed on Chi­na for thir­ty years for The Boston Globe\, where he cov­ered the 1989 mas­sacre in Tianan­men Square; The Wall Street Jour­nal\, where he served as Chi­na bureau chief from 2002 to 2005; and Bloomberg News. He is the author of A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jew­ish in East­ern Europe and Bro­ken Alliance: The Tur­bu­lent Times Between Blacks and Jews in Amer­i­ca\, win­ner of a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award. He is the direc­tor of the School of Jour­nal­ism at North­east­ern Uni­ver­si­ty in Boston.\n \nIN-PERSON at B’nai Torah Congregation | $18/person \nClick here to register\n \n\nIn partnership with \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.btcboca.org/event/jonathan-kaufman-2026-2027-author-series/
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SUMMARY:Michael Kimmel - 2026-2027 Author Series
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nJoin us as we welcome Michael Kimmel discussing his book Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs who Created the Toy Industry in America.\n\n\nThe untold story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who literally manufactured “the century of the child.” \nFrom Barbie and G.I. Joe to Popeye\, Superman\, and Mr. Potato Head\, Playmakers reveals how the toy industry created the idealized American childhood: an enchanted world\, full of wild creatures and eternal struggles between good and evil\, with endless realms of fantasy and beauty. For much of the twentieth century\, every part of the American toy business was largely Jewish―the company founders\, executives\, and designers\, as well as the factory workers\, wholesale distributors\, retail outlets\, and armies of salesmen. A descendant of the founders of the Ideal Toy Corporation\, Michael Kimmel shows how these poor\, often Yiddish-speaking\, tenement-dwelling children of immigrants invented a world they never experienced for themselves. Along with the toys and Jewish toymakers that climbed the ladder of success\, Kimmel also portrays the rise of an entire culture focused on children\, led by Jewish comic book creators\, children’s authors\, parenting experts\, and child psychologists. \nThe first full-scale toy history of the United States\, Kimmel’s story conjures the colorful\, imaginative\, restless spirits who followed the promise of the American Dream―and describes the ways in which the world they came from molded their beloved creations. Playmakers shows that the overlapping experiences of being a Jew\, an immigrant\, and a child in twentieth-century America―an outsider looking in\, a person desperate to be accepted―created childhood as we know it today. \nIN-PERSON at B’nai Torah Congregation | $18/person \nClick here to register\n \n\nIn partnership with \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.btcboca.org/event/michael-kimmel-2026-2027-author-series/
LOCATION:B’nai Torah Congregation\, 6261 SW 18th Street\, Boca Raton\, FL\, 33433\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alyssa Rosenheck - 2026-2027 Author Series
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nJoin us as we welcome Alyssa Rosenheck discussing her book White. Blonde. Jew. – A Call to End Extrem­ism\, Speak Up\, and Reclaim Center.\n\n\nWhite. Blonde. Jew. begins with the words once used to silence Alyssa Rosen­heck — and turns them into an act of recla­ma­tion. Writ­ten in response to lit­er­ary anti­semitism and cul­tur­al era­sure\, this is a polit­i­cal per­son­al nar­ra­tive explor­ing what it means to live vis­i­bly Jew­ish in Amer­i­ca while anti­semitism spreads across media\, acad­e­mia\, and pop cul­ture. Rosen­heck traces her South­ern Jew­ish upbring­ing\, her rela­tion­ship to iden­ti­ty\, and the courage it takes to stay root­ed in his­to­ry\, truth\, and com­mu­ni­ty. Her trav­els to Israel dur­ing the war\, meet­ings with sur­vivors\, front­line voic­es\, and fam­i­lies\, and reflec­tions on the dias­po­ra reveal the resilience\, grief\, and moral respon­si­bil­i­ty shap­ing Jew­ish life today. This is more than a book — it’s armor for the soul and a roadmap for those who stand their ground. With book club prompts and reflec­tion guides at the end of each chap­ter\, it equips read­ers to reclaim their voic­es\, con­front dif­fi­cult truths\, and build bridges in spaces where silence has too often prevailed. \nIN-PERSON at B’nai Torah Congregation | $18/person \nClick here to register\n \n\nIn partnership with \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.btcboca.org/event/alyssa-rosenheck-2026-2027-author-series/
LOCATION:B’nai Torah Congregation\, 6261 SW 18th Street\, Boca Raton\, FL\, 33433\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mark Oppenheimer - 2026-2027 Author Series
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nJoin us as we welcome Mark Oppenheimer discussing his book Judy Blume: A Life.\n\n\nJudy Blume is an icon among Amer­i­can authors of fic­tion\, for both chil­dren and adults. One of the first authors of young adult books to write about pre­vi­ous­ly taboo sub­jects includ­ing inter­mar­riage\, the uncom­fort­able aspects of puber­ty\, and ado­les­cent sex\, she has also become a vocal advo­cate for free­dom of expres­sion against the threat of cen­sor­ship. Mark Oppen­heimer\, who had unprece­dent­ed access to a wide range of sources\, reveals facts about Blume’s life and work that trans­form the leg­end into a com­plex woman and a mul­ti­fac­eted artist. His nuanced inter­pre­ta­tions of her work offer a fresh per­spec­tive on char­ac­ters who have entered the pan­theon of children’s fic­tion\, includ­ing Mar­garet Simon\, Sal­ly J. Freed­man\, and Fudge Hatch­er\, as well as numer­ous women in books for adults who push back against sti­fling norms of conformity. \nOppen­heimer deflects some of the assump­tions about Blume’s phe­nom­e­nal suc­cess\, pro­duc­ing a truer por­trait of the writer who has come to rep­re­sent truth-telling in children’s books and con­vey­ing the chal­lenges of celebri­ty in a field where that sta­tus is uncom­mon. He notes both strengths and weak­ness­es of her books\, as well as her per­son­al­i­ty. Char­ac­ter­iz­ing Blume as ​“one of the most for­tu­nate peo­ple in his­to­ry … as a Jew\, in par­tic­u­lar\, exquis­ite­ly lucky\,” Oppen­heimer con­veys the essence of her remark­able accom­plish­ments and endur­ing lega­cy in the light of that truth. \nIN-PERSON at B’nai Torah Congregation | $18/person \nClick here to register\n \n\nIn partnership with \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.btcboca.org/event/mark-oppenheimer-2026-2027-author-series/
LOCATION:B’nai Torah Congregation\, 6261 SW 18th Street\, Boca Raton\, FL\, 33433\, United States
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SUMMARY:Debra Green - 2026-2027 Author Series
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nJoin us as we welcome Debra Green discussing her book Indigenous.\n\n\nIndige­nous weaves con­tem­po­rary and his­tor­i­cal threads that explore iden­ti­ty\, con­nec­tion to tra­di­tions and land\, and the com­plex rela­tion­ships of peo­ple strug­gling to find under­stand­ing. In ear­ly 2020\, Shi­ra\, who has with­drawn from her Berke­ley\, Cal­i­for­nia\, grad­u­ate pro­gram after the trag­ic loss of her par­ents\, attends a par­ty where she meets two vis­it­ing IDF reservists — Jor­dan\, a for­mer lone sol­dier strug­gling with PTSD\, and Daf­na\, an Israeli anthro­pol­o­gy PhD stu­dent. When an earth­quake strikes\, a vase is unearthed at the bur­ial site of Shira’s grand­fa­ther. Her grand­moth­er insists that Shi­ra return the vase to the Aco­ma Pueblo in New Mex­i­co\, from where it came. The three set off to inves­ti­gate the vase’s ori­gin and dis­cov­er Shira’s family’s long-held secret. In the late 1860s\, a Native child meets a young Jew­ish Pruss­ian man who has joined his broth­ers’ trad­ing com­pa­ny. Their rela­tion­ship and the child’s friend­ship with a two-spir­it per­son cre­ate a mys­tery that sur­faces a cen­tu­ry later. \nIN-PERSON at Levis JCC | $18/person \nClick here to register\n \n\nIn partnership with \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.btcboca.org/event/debra-green-2026-2027-author-series/
LOCATION:Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center\, 21050 95th Avenue S\, Boca Raton\, FL\, 33428
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SUMMARY:Karen Essex - 2026-2027 Author Series
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nJoin us as we welcome Karen Essex discussing her book Run\, Darling: The Hidden Jewish History behind Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor.\n\n\nThree Sisters. One War. A Harrowing Escape. \nBefore the Sexual Revolution\, reality TV\, and social media\, there lived the Gabors\, a family of beguiling glamour icons with a global following. \nFor decades\, the gorgeous trio of Zsa Zsa\, Eva\, and Magda\, with their Auntie Mame mother\, dominated gossip columns\, TV and movie screens\, talk shows\, and tabloids with their talent\, clever quips\, branded beauty products—and utter disregard for society’s rules. \nWhile we many remember their whipped blonde hair\, jewelry and gowns\, multiple marriages\, and the word\, ‘dahlink\,’ sprinkled like sugar into every sentence\, few knew of this Jewish family’s shocking secrets\, painful pasts\, and harrowing journey from Nazi-dominated Europe to America and from obscurity to celebrity. \nRun\, Darling is that untold story. \nIN-PERSON at B’nai Torah Congregation | $18/person \nClick here to register\n \n\nIn partnership with \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.btcboca.org/event/karen-essex-2026-2027-author-series/
LOCATION:B’nai Torah Congregation\, 6261 SW 18th Street\, Boca Raton\, FL\, 33433\, United States
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SUMMARY:Annelise Heinz - 2026-2027 Author Series
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nJoin us as we welcome Annelise Heinz discussing her book Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture.\n\n\nMahjong: A Chi­nese Game and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Amer­i­can Cul­ture illus­trates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between games have fos­tered dis­tinct social cul­tures in the Unit­ed States. This mass-pro­duced game crossed the Pacif­ic\, cre­at­ing waves of pop­u­lar­i­ty over the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. Annelise Heinz nar­rates the his­to­ry of this game to show how it has cre­at­ed a vari­ety of mean­ings\, among them Amer­i­can moder­ni­ty\, Chi­nese Amer­i­can her­itage\, and Jew­ish Amer­i­can wom­en’s cul­ture. As it trav­eled from Chi­na to the Unit­ed States and caught on with Hol­ly­wood star­lets\, high soci­ety\, mid­dle-class house­wives\, and immi­grants alike\, mahjong became a quin­tes­sen­tial­ly Amer­i­can game. \nIN-PERSON at B’nai Torah Congregation | $18/person \nClick here to register\n \n\nIn partnership with \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.btcboca.org/event/annelise-heinz-2026-2027-author-series/
LOCATION:B’nai Torah Congregation\, 6261 SW 18th Street\, Boca Raton\, FL\, 33433\, United States
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