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JCC Rochester Book Festival Schedule
SUN.   MON.   TUES.   WED.  THURS.  FRI. SAT.
1
Conversation
w/ Friends
(Times vary)


Erin Arvedlund
7:30pm
2
The
Festival
bookstore
is open all week!
3
Mystery Panel
7:30pm
4
Rabbi Harold Kushner
7:30pm
5
Lily Koppel
7:30pm
6
Fiction
Luncheon

Noon
7
good shabbos
8
For Kids!
Mark
Shulman

2pm

CANCELLED
Edward Klein

7:30pm
9
10 11
12
13
14
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JCC Rochester Book Festival Schedule
  December January February March April
Tuesday 12/15
Film!
Arab Labor

7:30pm

Tuesday 1/12
Abraham Rothberg
7:30pm

Tuesday
2/9

Three Men & the Bible
7:30pm

Tuesday
3/23

Lenore Skenazy
7:30pm

Tuesday
4/27

Carol Leifer
7:30pm

JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Sunday, November 1, 2009
Erin Arvedlund
Too Good To Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
7:30PM, JCC Hart Theatre
In early 2001, Erin Arvedlund wrote the first skeptical article about Bernard Madoff for Barron's. Based on the more than 100 interviews Arvedlund's research might have prevented...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Sunday, November 1, 2009
Margaret A. Oppenheimer
Beat Crohn's: Getting to Remission with Enteral Nutrition
11:00 AM, JCC Senior Adult Lounge
When it comes to "Jewish" diseases, breast and ovarian cancer get the lion's share of the attention. But Crohn's disease is three to four times more common in Jews...     MORE »
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Amy Bach
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court

12:30PM, JCC Senior Adult Lounge
From an award-winning lawyer-reporter comes a radically new explanation for America's failing justice system. The stories of grave injustice are all too familiar: lawyers who sleep through trials, false confessions, convictions of...     MORE »
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Pam Sherman
Suburban Outlaw: Tales from the Edge
2PM, JCC Senior Adult Lounge
The Suburban Outlaw is a funny, touching look at life in suburbia. A Suburban Outlaw is irreverent and honest and willing to live life fully with a joint focus on family and self. The book is a compilation of columns by...     MORE »
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Izyaslav Darakhovskiy
Under Three Empires: The Thorns and Roses of a Life
3:30PM, JCC Senior Adult Lounge
This memoir explores one man's unique life experiences under three of the most powerful empires of the 20th century. As a slave laborer, farmer, soldier, economist, scholar...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Tuesday, November 3, 2009
7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre
Gabriel Cohen
Neptune Avenue: A Jack Leightner Crime Novel
In this riveting third addition to his Jack Leightner series, Gabriel Cohen takes us from Brighton Beach to the racially charged neighborhood of Crown Heights, from the crimes...     MORE »
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Daniel Levin
The Last Ember
This religious and archaeological debut thriller has all the elements needed to appeal to fans of The Da Vinci Code: long-buried secrets, hidden puzzles based on ancient religious texts and a race around Rome and Jerusalem. The Last Ember is a gripping story...     MORE »
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S.J. Rozan
The Shanghai Moon: A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Novel
S.J. Rozan returns to her critically acclaimed and much-loved characters Lydia Chin and Bill Smith. In The Shanghai Moon, private investigator Lydia Chin is asked to help with a case in Shanghai where excavation has unearthed a cache of European jewelry dating to World War II...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World
7:30 PM, JCC Hart Theatre
The best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People returns to Rochester with his latest book, Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World, an illuminating...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Thursday, November 5, 2009
Lily Koppel
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
7:30PM, JCC Hart Theatre
Rescued from a dumpster in Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous world of an extraordinary young woman. For more than half a century, the red leather diary...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Friday, November 6, 2009
Noon; JCC Auditorium; Tickets must be purchased by 11/2
Matthew Aaron Goodman
Hold Love Strong
Born to a 13-year-old in the bathroom of his family's small apartment, Abraham Singleton enters a world laden with the inherent obstacles of impoverished communities...     MORE »
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Joanna Smith Rakoff
A Fortunate Age
Like The Group, Mary McCarthy's classic coming of age novel, Joanna Smith Rakoff's richly drawn and immensely satisfying first novel details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel...     MORE »
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Jonathan Tropper
This is Where I Leave You
Jonathan Tropper's latest novel is a riotously funny, emotionally raw story about love, marriage, divorce and family. The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family has been together in years as the mourners...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Sunday, November 8, 2009
Mark Shulman
2 PM, JCC Auditorium; For all ages.
Mark Shulman got his start as an author writing school absence notes from his parents, and crafting text for plaques and programs as a counselor at Camp Seneca Lake and Camp Sisol. After 17 years in advertising, and as a part-time NYC tour guide...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Sunday, November 8, 2009  { CANCELLED [
Edward Klein
Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died
7:30 PM, JCC Hart Theatre
In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy once vowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern - the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Arab Labor (Avoda Aravit)
7:30PM, JCC Hart Theatre
A huge hit at this summer's Ames-Amzalak Rochester Jewish Film Festival, Arab Labor returns with three more hysterical episodes (#3 Kindergarten, #7 Loyalty, #9 Meet the Parents). Don't miss this groundbreaking and wildly funny prime-time Israeli TV show...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Abraham Rothberg
No Traveler Returns
7:30PM, JCC Senior Adult Lounge
Abraham Rothberg is the author of 12 published novels, among them , The Heirs of Cain, The Thousand Doors and The Other Man's Shoes. He has also published...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Tuesday, March 23, 2010
7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre
Lenore Skenazy
Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
Free-Range Kids has become a national movement, sparked by theincredible...     MORE »
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JCC Rochester Jewish Book Festival Tuesday, April 27, 2010
7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre
Carol Leifer
When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror
After years of stand-up and writing for a wave of successful TV shows including...   MORE »
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