Arts & Ideas

Jewish Book Festival: Melting Point by Rachel Cockerell

| MON, AUG 25, 2025

In 1907, a ship packed with 10,000 Russian Jews set sail for Texas, led by the author’s great grandfather. These rebel Zionists were seeking security beyond Palestine, desperate to start…

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Jewish Book Festival: Twice by Mitch Albom

| MON, AUG 25, 2025

When a grieving man receives a mysterious phone call from his departed wife, he’s pulled into a haunting journey where love defies time, and second chances may come at a…

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Jewish Book Festival: Heart of a Stranger by Angela Buchdahl

| MON, AUG 25, 2025

Born in Seoul to a Korean Buddhist mother and a Jewish American father, Buchdahl was drawn to faith at a young age. The first Asian American ordained as a rabbi,…

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Jewish Book Festival: Hostage by Eli Sharabi

| MON, AUG 25, 2025

After 491 days in Hamas captivity, Eli Sharabi emerged from the tunnels of Gaza, a shadow of his former self, and finally made his way home to Israel, only to…

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Authors in Conversation: Jill Hasday

| FRI, AUG 22, 2025

We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality Presented with Rice University Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality In collaboration with the Program in Politics,…

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