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Sunday, November 1, 200911:00 AM, JCC Senior Adult Lounge Margaret A. Oppenheimer Beat Crohn's: Getting to Remission with Enteral Nutrition 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 than in non-Jews. Beat Crohn's highlights a neglected dietary treatment for Crohn's, effective for children and adults. |
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12:30 PM, JCC Senior Adult Lounge
Amy Bach Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court 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 the innocent. It is time, Amy Bach argues, to institute a new method of checks and balances. A member of the NY State bar, Bach has written for The Nation, New York magazine and The American Lawyer. |
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2 PM, JCC Senior Adult Lounge Pam Sherman Suburban Outlaw: Tales from the Edge 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 actor and columnist Pam Sherman. |
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3:30 PM, JCC Senior Adult Lounge Izyaslav Darakhovskiy Under Three Empires: The Thorns and Roses of a Life 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 and businessman, Darakhovskiy, the author of eight books, experienced it all: joy and sorrow, love and loss, admiration and envy. |
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