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Authors Event

ANNUAL AUTHORS ROUNDTABLE

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2012

9:00 A.M. –1:30 P.M.

Temple Sinai, 3100 Military Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015

$15 per attendee includes lunch and conversation with the authors.

Books will be available for sale and autographing.

Non-members of Temple Sinai are welcome to attend.

Make your reservation by Feb. 20th at  http://templesinaiwrjauthorsroundtablefeb252012.eventbrite.com/  


           Ramona Ausubel is the author of No One is Here Except All of Us, a novel set in 1939, where families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. The isolated village tries to save itself from a war through sheer force of imagination—all at the suggestion of a girl.   Ausubel holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where she won the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Fiction and served as editor of Faultline Journal of Art & Literature. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, One Story, the Green Mountains Review, pax americana, The Orange Coast Review, Slice and collected in The Best American Fantasy and online in The Paris Review. Ausubel lives in Santa Barbara, California with her husband and new son.

           Deborah Kalb is a Temple Sinai member, journalist and author, who, with her father Marvin Kalb, wrote the acclaimed book, Haunting  Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama. She has worked for various news organizations in Washington, including Gannett News Service, Congressional Quarterly, U.S. News & World Report, and The Hill newspaper. Kalb is the co-editor of State of the Union: Presidential Rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush, and the co-author of The Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents, both published by CQ Press. She lives with her family in Chevy Chase, Md.
·                            Bernice Steinhardt is the co-author of Memories of Survival, the art and story of her late mother, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, a Holocaust survivor who depicted her experiences as a young girl in Poland in a series of beautiful and deeply moving fabric panels. Steinhardt and her sister created Art and Remembrance, a non-profit arts and educational organization, as a testament to their mother’s legacy. Since its founding in 2003, the organization has created a traveling exhibit of Esther Krinitz’s art, which was recently on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s Ripley Center. Art and Remembrance’s film about Esther Krinitz, “Through the Eye of the Needle,” debuted in December 2011 at the Washington Jewish Film Festival, where it won the Audience Favorite Documentary award.

·                              Natalie Wexler is the author of The Mother Daughter Show, a satirical novel about mother-daughter relationships and private school culture inspired by her experience as a parent at Sidwell Friends School. She has also written an award-winning historical novel, A More Obedient Wife, and her feature articles and essays have appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, the American Scholar, the Gettysburg Review, and other publications. Wexler has worked as a temporary secretary, a newspaper reporter, a Supreme Court law clerk, a legal historian, and (briefly) an actual lawyer. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband.

        Marla Romash, who will moderate the panel of authors, is a member of Temple Sinai and a political consultant and owner/Executive Pastry Chef of The Political Cookie and Dreamz Catering.

 

Annual Authors Roundtable

After registration and coffee, join us for a 9:30 a.m. Shabbat service in the Bet Am, led by Rabbi Jessica Oleon.  Promptly at 10:30 a.m., we will launch a stimulating discussion with four leading women authors, moderated by Marla Romash.  The Roundtable will be followed by a catered lunch and the chance to meet in small conversation groups with the authors.  Participants will be able to buy the panelists’ books and get them autographed.

Your payment, which must be received by Monday, February 20th, is your reservation.  Cost is $15.00 per person for all attendees which includes coffee and snacks before the event and a complimentary lunch.  You may pay online at http://templesinaiwrjauthorsroundtablefeb252012.eventbrite.com/

Or you may mail a check payable to TSWRJ to Helene Sacks, 4 Magnolia Parkway, Chevy Chase, MD 20815.  Please include your sandwich choice on your check or, if paying online, please select a meal option as well. Lunch choices are: corned beef, tuna fish, turkey, or vegetarian.

DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS IS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20.

 

Questions? Contact Carole Brand at csbrand@verizon.net or 301-657-2547.

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