by beth-ami | Nov 24, 2022 | Beth Ami Book Club
Our group’s read is Omar Friedlander’s debut collection, The Man Who Sold Air In The Holy Land, the SF Jewish Community Library’s One Bay One Book selection— Jewish people all over the Bay Area are reading it this year. Many related talks on ZOOM and in person. The...
by beth-ami | Nov 23, 2022 | President's messages
The Jewish month of Chesvan, the so called quiet month, seemed to go by so quickly… now Kislev, the month of Chanukah, is here. After the High Holidays we have a whole month to recoup, or so it seems. In reality, the board is making plans for the rest of the...
by beth-ami | Nov 8, 2022 | Beth Ami Book Club
Our current read is a memoir by Lev Golinkin, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka (2014, 303 pgs.) Golinkin was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1980 during the end of the Cold War and the Soviet Union. Critics say the memoir is vivid, darkly comic, gripping....
by beth-ami | Oct 30, 2022 | Kitchen Committee
You don’t have to make latkes the same way every time… once you try the recipes in this pdf, you’ll wish Chanukah was longer than eight days. Here is some food history for you. When we think of latkes, we are immersed in the romantic tradition of...
by beth-ami | Oct 9, 2022 | Beth Ami Book Club
CBA Book Group is now reading THE BETRAYERS by David Bezmozgis (Fiction, 256 pgs., 2015) for discussion Sunday, October 16, in my sukkah. The book spans 1 Jewish day in the life of a powerful Israeli politician, a former Soviet refusenik. The story takes place mostly...
