The Book Club is open to all in the community to share insights, consider different perspectives, and engage in thought provoking conversations about books that explore Jewish life, history, ideas, struggles, and values. Book club will meet at the synagogue and the discussion will be led by Rabbi Rubenstein.
Kantika by Elizabeth Graver: A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, Kantika―“song” in Ladino ― follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early
20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way ― a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge ― her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old.
