Temple Sinai-Women of Reform Judaism presents its
Annual Authors Roundtable
Saturday, February 25, 2012
9:00 am to 1:30 pm
 

After registration and coffee, join us for a 9:30 a.m. Shabbat service in the Bet Am, led by Rabbi 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.

The 2012 Roundtable includes:

•    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. The book is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in early February, with a collection of short stories, A Guide to Being Born, to follow.  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.  Recognizing the power of their mother’s art to change hearts and minds, 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.

DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS IS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20.

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. 

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If you wish to avoid the online service charge, you may mail a check for $15.00,  payable to TS-WRJ, to Helene Sacks at 4 Magnolia Parkway, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, to be received by Monday, February 20th. ALL ATTENDEES MUST REGISTER. Please note your sandwich choice on the memo line of your check: corned beef, turkey, tuna salad, or vegetarian.

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