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Join us on for prayer, reflection, and song! Welcome Shabbat in a joyful, participatory, and engaging service, with melodies that calm, songs that enliven, and prayers that elevate. This lay-led service blends tradition and creativity, drawing on contemporary and innovative Jewish music from around the world.
After services and dinner, join us as we welcome our special guest speaker, Jeffrey L. Katz, who will speak on “Unsettled Ground: Reflections on Germany’s Attempts to Make Amends.”
Jeffrey L. Katz is a veteran journalist with extensive experience working at newspapers, magazines, radio and online news, including 15 years at NPR. His new book, Unsettled Ground: Reflections on Germany’s Attempts to Make Amends, is a personal take on Germany’s belated efforts to come to grips with the Holocaust. It’s a story of remembrance, responsibility and reconciliation, written by the son of survivors. The book is being praised as “a remarkably balanced and human portrait of the benefits and limits of reconciliation over time and space.” Katz traveled to Germany several times to explore his family’s roots and meet with local members of the country’s remembrance movement. Read more about Unsettled Ground.
This discussion will be moderated by congregant Michelle Brafman, noted author of Washing the Dead; Bertrand Court: Stories; and Swimming with Ghosts, the companion novel to Draw Near to Me. Her work has appeared in Oprah Daily, O Quarterly, Slate, LitHub, Tablet, The Forward, and elsewhere.
Registration for dinner is now closed. Everyone is invited to come to the service. Those who did not register for the dinner are invited to relax and socialize in the Beth El Library until it’s time for the guest speaker’s discussion.
