Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores-until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat from the region's brutal gangs forces them to flee the only home they've ever known. She lives in Newton with her husband, Rabbi Wesley Gardenswartz, and has three children.Book Synopsis The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California-fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, and a J.D. Shira began her career at Bain & Company. Shira is an Advisory Director at Charlesbank Capital Partners and sits on the boards of directors of Carmax, Henry Schein, and CBRE. Before becoming an Advisory Director at Charlesbank Capital Partners, Shira was the CEO of Staples where she held a variety of positions over 26 years. More about her leadership and commitment to CJP and the Greater Boston Jewish Community can be found here. Shira Goodman is a long-time leader at CJP and currently the Chair of CJP's Board of Directors. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children. She has lectured at hundreds of venues across North America, Israel and Australia. One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists and a two-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, among other honors, Horn received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University, and has taught these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College, Yeshiva University, and Harvard. This event will be live-streamed for those who are unable to join in person.ĭara Horn is the award-winning author of five acclaimed novels and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews. Books will be available for purchase and signing at 8pm. Join us at 6:30pm for a welcome reception on our patio plaza followed by a lively hour-long discussion at 7pm. Here are the parameters of that bargain, and the reasons why we all should opt out. What’s going on?Īgreeable Jews, Dead Jews, and the Challenge of Diversity - Is there any connection between recent antisemitic attacks and recent controversies about public Holocaust education? Actually, yes, and it's built into a strange historic bargain struck between Jews and non-Jewish societies, including here in the United States. Yet ignorance and indifference towards Jew-hatred today seems to be higher than ever. In her latest book, acclaimed author Dara Horn explores a pointed question: Why do far too many people seem to love dead Jews, but ignore the living ones? In 2022, the Holocaust continues to make headlines, fill our films and fiction, and generate extraordinary interest far beyond our community.

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