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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Noon; JCC Auditorium; Tickets must be purchased by 11/2
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre
Looking out of his window at a church across the street, the son of an Orthodox rabbi asks, "What would it be like to be a Christian?" So begins...
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The Year of Living Biblically answers the question: What if a modern-day American followed every rule in the Bible as literally as possible for a full year? Not just the famous rules - the Ten Commandments and "love thy neighbor"-- but the hundreds of oft-ignored ones: Don't wear clothes of mixed fibers. Grow your beard...
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Good Book is what happens when a regular guy actually reads the book on which his religion, his culture and his world are based. Along the way, he grapples with profound theological questions - How many commandments do we actually need?...
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7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre
Free-Range Kids has become a national movement, sparked by theincredible...
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7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre
After years of stand-up and writing for a wave of successful TV shows including...
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