Havdalah gathering at the home of Carol Shakow. At 5:00pm, we will have a discussion of the book In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh. There will be a potluck dinner. As evening approaches we will do a Havdalah ceremony.
Presentation by author Martin Bodek. Link: https://mybook.to/ZRK9S0 My grandfather's story involves serving four armies under wildly unique circumstances, being present for both the largest land invasion in human history and the final battle of WWII, avoiding cannibalism under pain of death, eluding poisoning, surviving to walk 1,600 miles to his home country of Romania, emigrating to Israel, enduring the pummeling of his new community of Haifa during the Six Day War, finally settling in peace in the U.S. where he...