LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – San Diego’s internationally recognized San Diego Jewish Book Fair celebrates its 19th year with most prominent legal mind and celebrated lawyer in America – Alan Dershowitz– launching the nine-day series on Saturday, November 2 at 7:30pm at the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus.
Book Fair events will run from November 2, 2013 through November 10, 2013, with North County events on November 7 hrough November 10, 2013. North County events will be held at Temple Solel in Cardiff and other locations. All other events, including the free-of-charge Family Day Book-a-Palooza, on Sunday, November 3, 2013 from 10am-2pm sponsored by Target will be held at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla.
The San Diego Jewish Book Fair is one of the largest and most respected Jewish book fairs in the nation, and the largest literature-related event in San Diego County. More than 30 best-selling writers, journalists and commentators are scheduled to speak on topics ranging from world events, memoirs, family relations (including hot topics: bullying & sexuality) to self-help books.
A special preview at Temple Solel on Tuesday, October 29th with author Naomi Ragen. One of contemporary Jewish literature’s most compelling and controversial writers shares her latest, The Sisters Weiss. This novel begins within an ultra-conservative Orthodox community in 1950s Brooklyn, and tells the story of two sisters, one who went with the flow and one who swam against it, choosing a secret life that eventually leaves her forever ostracized… until a willful niece stirs up the past. Tickets – $14.00/JCC Members; $17.00/Non-members
Kicking off this year’s opening night book fair at the LFJCC, Jacobs Family Campus, will be Alan Dershowitz, author of Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law on Saturday, November 2 at 7:30pm. Meet one of the world’s most celebrated lawyers as he shares the story of his “legal evolution,” and the events in his personal life that led him not just to the law, but to some of his most controversial stands and opinions. Alan Dershowitz will leave no stone unturned and no hot topic untouched in this startling session—from his successful defense of the notorious Claus Von Bulow to his current role on the team defending Julian Assange. There is no living litigator who has had a more critical role in the biggest trials of our times: this event provides a rare opportunity to hear the facts from the man himself. Be one of the first to own a copy of this newly published book.
Ticket price includes a copy of the book. Please hold onto your ticket stub in order to redeem your copy after the lecture. Tickets- $27.00/JCC Members; $32.00/Non-members
Other highlights:
The Book Fair also features a lunch & talk with author Hallie Ephron, There Was an Old Woman on Tuesday, November 5 at 12pm at the LFJCC. Do you like a good mystery? Then you’ll love hearing about Hallie Ephron’s latest suspense-filled tale. The story starts simply: a young woman, Evie, returns home after her mother is hospitalized, and soon strikes up a friendship with the old woman next door, Mina, who seems to know more than a few facts about why and how Evie’s mother came to be in the hospital. What started simply, however, soon turns sinister, as Mina’s madness slowly emerges. Hallie Ephron, the daughter of screenwriter parents and the 3rd sister in a literary family that includes (Nora, Delia, Hallie, and Amy) has writing in her blood. Learn why she earns lofty comparisons to Mary Higgins Clark, and the master of mystery, Alfred Hitchcock. Tickets – $16.00/JCC Members; $19.00/Non-members
Evening talk on Tuesday, November 5, with leading notable diplomat, Ambassador (Ret)Daniel C. Kurtzer, author of The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace 1989-2011 at the LFJCC. Meet Ambassador (Ret.) Daniel C. Kurtzer, the S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle East Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, and U.S. Foreign Service veteran, having served as U.S. Ambassador to both Egypt (1997–2001) and Israel (2001–2005). There is no better chance to hear someone who understands—perhaps better than anyone else in the world—the depth and breadth of the Middle East Conflict. His latest book tracks the American determination to articulate policy, develop strategy and tactics, and see through negotiations on an issue that has been of singular importance to U.S. interests for more than forty years. Tickets – $14.00/JCC Members; $17.00/Non-members
An Evening of Comedy on Saturday, November 9 at 7:30 at Temple Solel with Marion Grodin, Standing Up: A Memoir of a Funny (not Always) Life and Fred Stoller, Maybe We’ll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest star. Marion Grodin, daughter of comedian Charles Grodin, dishes on life as a daughter of Hollywood (her on-set crush on Jeff Bridges while he was filming King Kong with her dad is both ribald and tender), charting her own course as a comedian, and her “inappropriate relationship with Haagen-Dazs.” Fred Stoller has a face you will know if not necessarily his name. Fred Stoller has had memorable—if only too brief—appearances on some of the biggest television shows of our time: Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Scrubs, even Hannah Montana. He has also been in dozens of huge movies and was a staff writer on Seinfeld. Meet the comic–writer–actor when he shares tales of tinsel town turmoil and torpor, and what it’s like to be a “perennial guest star.” As to why he never made it as a leading man? Ray Romano says, “Maybe because he’s annoying—just kidding!” Come and see for yourself. Tickets- $16.00/JCC Members; $19.00/Non-members
For kids up to age 8, Family Day Book-a-Palooza, on Sunday, November 3 from 10am-2pm sponsored by Target experiences for the whole family. The day’s activities are free to the community and include Kid Zone, with activity stations including an obstacle course and crafts and on the Target stage; a Family Day concert with Mama Doni Band sponsored by Gepettos, Ann Stampler, “The Cats on Ben Yehuda Street”, Jamie Korngold, “Sadie’s Almost Marvelous Menorah” and J*Company’s critically- acclaimed singing ambassador troupe will perform selections from the current “Once Upon A Time” season free /JCC Members; free/Non-members
Closing Night Event with evening talk, Emily Bazelon, Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy at 7:30pm at Temple Solel, talks on the hot subject of bullying. Today, she is a senior editor at Slate, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, and the Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School. In the eighth grade, she was just another victim of bullying, something we’re now realizing isn’t just “kids being kids,” but is in fact a scourge that must be faced down and defeated. However, the author, lawyer, and parent in Bazelon knows “it’s a tricky balance to strike, the line between protecting kids and policing them. But we have to keep trying to find it.” At this year’s Book Fair, she will help us start to find that balance and make the world a better place for all of our children. Tickets – $14.00/JCC Members; $17.00/Non-members
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Preceding provided by Lawrence Family JCC and the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture