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The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Drink
Barry Joseph/Seltzertopia author speaking at Shir Shalom
Presented by Congregation Shir Shalom Religious
School & Adult Programming Committee
COME AND MEET THE AUTHOR, BARRY JOSEPH WHO WILL BE SPEAKING ABOUT… WHAT’S JEWISH ABOUT SELTZER!
Sunday, March 3 from 11 am to 12 pm
All congregants and families are welcome!
This is a great program to help everyone excited about our special guests from…
Gomberg Seltzer Works of Brooklyn who will set up an old-fashioned Egg Cream station
at our Jewish Food Fair/Purim Carnival Event on March 17!
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The Patriots: Americans in Russia
Author Talk with Sana Krasikov
Award winning author Sana Krasikov presents the true story behind her new novel “The Patriots”.
Sunday, January 27 at 3 PM
Slavic/Yankee Melange Nosh to be served.
Donation $10
Let us know you are coming by emailing AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org
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Author Talk with Sana Krasikov
THE PATRIOTS: An idealistic young American woman heads for the Soviet Union in 1934, with consequences that reverberate through three generations of one Jewish family. An epic that takes us from Stalin’s era to America to the oil-rich world of New Russia.
Imagine a United States post-economic crisis. Economic uncertainty divides us by race and class. A new form of popular media fuels outrage. And the presidency is taken by the wealthy son of a New York family, who promptly develops a surprising friendship with Russia’s strong man leader.
If you think I’m talking about today…. you’d be off by about 80 years.
Come hear to the true story behind Sana Krasikov’s latest Novel, The Patriots, about Florence Fein, a young American woman who abandons her middle-class Brooklyn Jewish family and heads to where she thinks the Future is happening. Florence was hardly alone. Thousands of Americans made that “reverse migration”, only to find themselves trapped in Russia for good. Trapped not only by Stalinist schemes, but by America’s own complicated relationship with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Includes the story of the Yiddish Poets who executed the greatest Jewish fundraising campaign you’ve (likely) never heard of.
Bio:
Sana Krasikov was born in 1979 in Ukraine and grew up in the former Soviet republic of Georgia and in New York. In 2017 She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. Krasikov’s debut story collection, One More Year, was a finalist for the 2009 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. It received a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award and won the 2009 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic, among other publications. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson with her husband, Gregory Warner, a radio journalist, and their two children.
Arthur Kurzweil Jewish Genealogy
Congregation Shir Shalom invites you on a journey with Arthur Kurzweil, the Guru of Jewish Genealogy.
Author, educator, writer, publisher, illusionist and widely recognized as the leading expert on Jewish genealogy.
Featuring a Nosh that Bubbe could have made!
November 4th at 3 pm
Let us know you are coming by emailing us at AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org
Suggested Donation: $18
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TIME SENSITIVE/SHIR SHALOM: Please help the needy in the New Year! Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen dates
Happy New Year Everyone!
If you would like to start off the New Year by reaching out to others in need, here’s your chance. We really need your help!
Please join our energetic, dedicated teams for one or more of the below-listed sessions (the more the better of course!). A couple of hours of your time can truly make a difference to others…and be enjoyable too! No experience is necessary of course.
Daily Bread Food Pantry: man the Pantry as needy clients shop. Shir Shalom volunteers are responsible for the dates below:
- Monday, September 24, 9:30 a.m. – 11: 45 a.m. (PRIORITY!)
- Monday, October 29th, 9:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
- Friday, November 30th, 9:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Also, during the entire month of October, the Pantry we will need many more hands on deck on Monday and Friday mornings from 9:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. to help clients fill out brief/simple annual registration forms and to give out tickets for our Thanksgiving food distribution event. Please let us know if/when you can help. The Pantry would be so grateful to you!
- Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen: prep and serve a meal to hungry clientswith Shir Shalom volunteers and our partner church teams.
- Sunday, October 7th, 2018, 1:15 – 5:00 pm
- Sunday, November 4th, 2018, 1:15 – 5:00 pm
- Sunday, December 2nd, 2018, 1:15 – 5:00 pm
Reach out to me at SocialAction@OurShirShalom.org. I’d be happy to provide more information/answer any questions!
Thanks so much Everyone!
All my best,
Debbie Landzberg
Social Action Committee Co-Chairperson
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History and Culture of Bukharian Jews with Historian Manashe Khaimov
March 3, 2019 by Webmaster • Adult Programming • 0 Comments
Manashe Khaimov is an Adjunct Professor in Jewish studies with a specialty of History and Culture of the Bukharian Jews at CUNY Queens College. He was born in a city along the Silk Road, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan where his ancestors lived for over 2000 years.
The program topics will include:
– Where did Bukharian Jews come from? Bukharian Roots: Movie Screening & Discussion
– Bukharian Jews and The Great Silk Road. What is the connection?
Authentic Bukharian snacks will be served.
Donation $18
Let us know you are coming by emailing AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org