Featured June 13 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Meet Astronomer-Author Avi Loeb Are we alone in the universe? Dr. Avi Loeb, a longtime Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, is the author of one of the most talked about books of 2021, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. Dr. Loeb will take us on a mind-bending journey from Israel to the far reaches of space ...
Featured July 25 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Book Chat: The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross Join us to discuss The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross, a fun work of speculative fiction that won a 2020 National Jewish Book Award. Surrounded by a deep Polish forest, the Yiddish-speaking village of Kreskol has had no contact with the modern world for generations. Following a crazy series of events, Kreskol is rediscovered. This ...
Featured October 3 @ 4:30 pm Meet Author-Psychologist Sherry Turkle MIT Professor Sherry Turkle will introduce her latest book, The Empathy Diaries, a vivid and poignant memoir of growing up in Jewish Brooklyn and her awakening interest in topics that led to her path-breaking work. Turkle is a pioneer in the study of people’s relationships with technology and the impact of technology on human behavior. A ...
