Experience world class programming with internationally renowned authors as we bring you the best of the literary world. Let us engage, educate and entertain you with this year's incredible lineup of authors and moderators.

Schedule of Events:

Monday, March 3, 2025

11:00 am: Ilan Evyatar

Join the Men's club at the Mandel JCC to watch this Virtual presentation

Evyatar and his co-author Yonah Jeremy Bob describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States. Even as it takes lethal action, Israel has managed to alter the politics of the Middle East, culminating in the Abraham Accords of 2020. Drawing from interviews with top confidential Israeli and U.S. sources, including from the Mossad and the CIA, the authors tell the thrilling inside story of the tumultuous, and often bloody, history of how Israel has managed to outmaneuver Iran - so far.

Ilan Evyatar is a former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report, and a former news director, columnist and senior contributor at The Jerusalem Post. He has edited and translated several books and has worked as a speechwriter and ghostwriter. Born in Israel and raised in London, he has interviewed top intelligence officials, as well as leading political, business and cultural personalities

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

7:30 pm: Daniel Schulman

This book tells the incredible saga of the German Jewish immigrants - with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman - who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance. Schulman unspools a sweeping narrative that traces the interconnected origin stories of these financial dynasties. He chronicles their paths to Wall Street dominance, as they navigated the deeply antisemitic upper class of the Gilded Age, and the complexities of the Civil War, World War I and the Zionist movement that tested both their burgeoning empires and their identities as americans, Germans and Jews.

Daniel Schulman is a best-selling author and journalist whose work has appeared in publications including The Boston Globe Magazine, Politico, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, and Mother Jones, where he is the magazine's deputy Washington, DC bureau chief. Schulman's first book, Sons of Wichita, a biography of the Koch brothers, was a finalist for The Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and sons.

Praise for the book: "A must-read for anyone seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the roots of modern finance and its foundational families. Schulman weaves a masterful tapestry of history, bringing to life the untold stories of a group of trailblazing pioneers who left an indelible mark on global business and Jewish life. It's a monumental work."

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

7:30 pm: Jonathan Sanflofer

From celebrated artist, legal counterfeiter and award-winning Jewish author Jonathan Santlofer comes The Lost Van Gogh, a spellbinding thriller of masterpieces, masterminds and the mysterious underbelly of the art world. In this highly-anticipated sequel to The Last Mona Lisa (a People Magazine Best Book of Summer), Santlofer turns his attention to one of the most revered artists of all time, spinning a riveting tale based on rumors that Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait before his death, one that has since been lost to time - or the black market

Jonathan Santlofer is an artist and USA Today best-selling author. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants, was a Visiting Artist at the american Academy in Rome, serves on the board of Yaddo and founded the Center For Fiction's Crime Fiction Academy. His art has been exhibited worldwide, including in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

6:00 pm: YogaProse: Using Your Practice to Write Your Story

Join author and yoga instructor Jennifer Lang for an inspiring experience of play and work. The workshop will incorporate pranayama, asana, meditation and writing exercises. We will explore how using the body, focusing the breath, emptying the mind and practicing physical poses can help us see clearer and enrich your writing. This program is for all levels of yoga practitioners and open to anyone who journals, yearns to write or wrestles with writing, feels blocked or craves inspiration.

Jennifer Lang is the author of Places We Left Behind: A Memoir-in-Miniature and Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Poses. She is originally from California and lives in Tel Aviv, where she runs Israel Writers Studio. A Pushcart Prize and Best american Essays nominee, she holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and serves as Assistant Editor for Brevity Journal. When not at her desk, she's often on a yoga mat, practicing since 1995, teaching since 2003.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

7:00 pm: Margalit Fox

In 1850, Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. How was she able to ascend from tenement poverty to vast wealth? In the intervening years, "Marm" Mandelbaum had become the country's most notorious "fence - a receiver of stolen goods - and a criminal mastermind. Combining deep historical research with a narrative flair, Fox tells the unforgettable true story of a once-famous heroine whose life exemplifies america's cherished rags-to-riches narrative while simultaneously upending it entirely.

Margalit Fox is considered one of the foremost explanatory writers and literary stylists in american journalism. Fox retired in June 2018 from a 24-year-career at the New York Times, where she was most recently a senior writer. As a member of the newspaper's celebrated obituary news department, she has written the Page One sendoffs of some of the best-known cultural figures of our era, Originally trained as a cellist, Ms. Fox holds bachelor's and master's degrees in linguistics from Stony Brook University and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is the winner of the William Saroyan Prize for Literature and author of four previous books.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

7:30 pm: Rabbi Sharon Brous

In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Brous makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one other in celebration, in sorrow and in solidarity. The amen Effect translates foundational ideas into simple practices, offering a blueprint for a meaningful life and a more connected and caring world.

Sharon Brous is the senior and founding rabbi of IKAR, a leading-edge Jewish community based in Los Angeles. In 2013, Brous blessed President Obama and VP Biden at the Inaugural National Prayer Service. She has also blessed President Biden and VP Harris, and led the White House Passover Seder and the Hanukkah candle lighting. She was named #1 on the Newsweek/The Daily Beast list of most influential Rabbis in america and has been recognized by The Forward and Jerusalem Post as among the most influential Jews alive today. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post, and her TED talk, "Reclaiming Religion," has been viewed by more than 1.5 million people.

Date: March 3 - 19, 2025

Location: Various Venues In Beachwood, OH

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