SAN DIEGO JEWISH BOOK FAIR November 3–5, 2012 at Temple Solel, Cardiff • November 8–11, 2012 at JCC, La Jolla
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18TH Annual SAN DIEGO JEWISH BOOK FAIR November 3–5, 2012 at Temple Solel, Cardiff • November 8–11, 2012 at JCC, La Jolla SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center • JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS 18TH Annual SAN DIEGO JEWISH BOOK FAIR November 3–5, 2012 • Temple Solel • November 8–11, 2012 • JCC La Jolla San Diego Jewish Book Fair thanks our… FOUNDING BENEFACTORS, THE VITERBI FAMILY FOUNDATION Erna and Andrew Viterbi and their family are strong supporters of the Jewish community and have an interest in all facets of Jewish life. Their love for education has been demonstrated through the Viterbi Family Torah School of Congregation Beth El and their support for the San Diego Jewish North County Presentations made Academy. Andrew and Alan served as Presidents of Congregation Beth El two decades apart. Alan possible by a generous grant from is Past President of the Academy. Andrew is active with Technion—Israel Institute of Technology— LEICHTAG FOUNDATION having served both as local ATS chapter chairman and as a Distinguished Visiting Professor on campus. Caryn has been President of the Agency for Jewish Education, a Board Member of the Jewish Federation, and is the Past President of the SDCJC. Erna is a Board Member of the Shoah Parents Picks Foundation Institute at USC, where the family has endowed the Institute’s Archival Website. The •Sunday, November 4 • 9:30 A.M. family’s dedication to Jewish learning is further illustrated by a continuing commitment to the San Erna & Andrew Viterbi WHAT’S COOKING? Diego Jewish Book Fair, and to the endowment of a Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. A Cookbook Panel! Featuring Stanley Ginsberg, Pnina They are also involved in many other Jewish organizations including the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, Magen David Adom, Jewish Jacobson, Judy Kempler, Michal Levi, and Galit Urich National Fund and Jewish Family Service, of which Audrey and Valerie have been Board members, and the Jewish Community Foundation, •Monday, November 5 • 7:30 P.M. HAROLD KUSHNER, The Book of Job: When Bad Things of which Andrew is Past President and Caryn is presently a Board Member. The Jewish Federation building is named in memory of Erna's Happened to a Good Person parents, Joseph and Lenka Finci. The venue for the San Diego Jewish Book Fair is housed in the Viterbi Family Galleria at the JCC. •Thursday, November 8 • 10:00 A.M. CONFRONTING LIFE’S CHALLENGES - A CONVERSATION A Special Thanks to the KEN DRUCK, The Real Rules of Life: Balancing Life's ON THE COVER Galinson–Fantel Family Terms with Your Own for underwriting EDIE LUTNICK, An Unbroken Bond: The Untold Story of This cover represents the San how the 658 Cantor Fitzgerald Families Faced the Tragedy Diego Jewish Book Fair‘s18TH year. our free community events. of 9/11 and Beyond The chai in the middle is comprised of the San Diego Jewish Book Fair’s •Friday, November 9 • 10:00 A.M. past brochure covers. The word Additional thanks to the LISA KLUG, Hot Mamalah: The Ultimate Guide for Every chai (meaning life) represents the Jewish Community Foundation Woman of the Tribe numeric value 18. for underwriting all 2:00 P.M. •LATE NIGHT • Saturday, November 10 • 9:00 P.M. free community events. JUSTIN HALPERN, I Suck at Girls LOOK FOR THESE IDENTIFYING ICONS THROUGHOUT THIS BROCHURE: MORNING COFFEE LUNCH TEA EVENING WHAT’S LATE MIND, BODY TALKS @ 2 CONVERSATION & TALK & TALK TALK COOKING? NIGHT AND SPIRIT The San Diego Jewish Book Fair brochure is published annually by the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center of San Diego County, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS • 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037-1348 Issue 18, Fall 2012 2 AN EXTRAVAGANZA OF JEWISH LITERATURE FOR ALL AGES VENUE: LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS SPECIAL PREVIEW • JCC EVENING TALK Thursday, October 4 • 7:30 P.M. Samuel Popkin, The Candidate: What it Takes to Win–and Hold–the White House Obama? Romney? A write-in? Want to know who will win this year’s election before November 6? Join the nation’s leading Presidential campaign analyst, San Diego’s own Samuel Popkin, for some surprising insights into what really makes and keeps a candidate “electable.” We’re gearing–up for this year’s Book Fair with a timely discussion centered on The Candidate: What it Takes to Win—and Hold—the White House, Popkin’s richly detailed dissection of the ins and outs of Presidential campaigns will help you better understand the true workings of this and future elections. In Presidential politics, it’s about how you WIN the game. Admission: $8/JCC Member; $10/Non-Member Samuel Popkin VENUE: NORTH COUNTY, TEMPLE SOLEL N OPENING NIGHT NORTH COUNTY! • A Tribute to Gert Thaler, Z”L EVENING TALK • SUSAN TAYLOR IN CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL SILVA y Saturday, November 3 • 8:00 P.M. • BOOK STORE HOURS - 7:00–10:00 P.M. Daniel Silva, The Fallen Angel The Fallen Angel is simply #1. Why? Being named the #1 bestseller in its debut week by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and other major media outlets will do that. Israeli secret agent (sometimes, anyway) and art restorer Gabriel Allon returns in the most unlikely place—The Vatican—where his restoration of a priceless Caravaggio is disrupted by a death in St. Peter's Basilica. The victim? A beautiful woman who may have stumbled onto one of the most nefarious antiquities stealing/dealing rings the world has ever known. Meet the bestselling author of The Fallen Angel and The Rembrandt Affair among others, as he speaks with Susan Taylor, veteran NBC 7 San Diego news anchor, about his characters, his craft and his calling. Admission: $16/JCC Member; $19/Non-Member Teller of Tales: Linda Thaler Neiman Daniel Silva Literary Circle Partner with the Author: Shelley Neiman • Danny & Lauren Neiman • Larry and Aaron Thaler NOTE: BOOK SIGNINGS FOLLOW EACH AUTHOR EVENT 3 VENUE: NORTH COUNTY, TEMPLE SOLEL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 BOOKSTORE HOURS: 9:00 A.M.–9:30 P.M. BOOKSTORE HOURS: 9:00 A.M.–7:30 P.M. Judy Kempler Stanley Ginsberg and Pnina Jacobson Ari Seth Cohen Rachelle Bergstein Le WHAT’S COOKING? • 9:30 A.M. LUNCH & TALK • 12:00 P.M. A Cookbook Panel Featuring Stanley Ginsberg, Judy Food, Fashion, and Friends featuring Ari Seth Cohen, Kempler and Pnina Jacobson, Galit Urich and Michal Levi Advanced Style, and Rachelle Bergstein, Women from Enjoy bagels and coffee and delve into the depth the Ankle Down and breadth of Jewish cuisine, which can be as A first for the San Diego Jewish Book Fair - this fashion program includes Ari Seth vast and as compelling as the history of the Cohen, a man who has made his name by celebrating the beauty and glamour Jewish people itself. Join Stanley Ginsberg of women in their later years (both through his Advanced Style blog and his (Inside the Jewish Bakery); Judy Kempler and Portraits of Older Women pictorial), and Rachelle Bergstein, whose Women from Pnina Jacobson (One Egg is a Fortune: Memories the Ankle Down examines our culture’s ongoing obsession with footwear. The and Recipes to Share); Galit Urich and Michal Levi authors will share their distinctly unique and equally engaging stories about (Israeli Food in America) for a panel discussion Galit Urich, Michal Levi, Jennie Starr fashion and fashionistas. that will set your mind buzzing and your stomach Book Fair Boutique by local vendors will be available before and after the program. yearning! The authors and chefs will awaken your appetite Admission: $14/JCC Member; $17/Non-Member with recipes and tales from the kitchen that span the globe— Co-presented by the San Diego Jewish Film Festival Eastern Europe, Israel, America, Latin America, and beyond. Every meal tells a story rich in shared traditions, but has a flavor all of its own. Admission: $7/JCC Member; $9/Non-Member Community Host: San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society 11:00 A.M.–2:00 P.M. (boutique will be closed during the noon program) Join Our Distinguished Underwriters Step up your style! Visit our boutique on Sunday, November 4. Receive benefits that include tickets to all presentations, Boutique vendors include: an invitation to receptions, and a reserved seating section for evening talks. M J Bailey Designs • Sherry Bittner, Chara Designs • Carol Gardyne Double Happiness • Susan D'Vincent Designs • Bea Roberts, Ethnicity Etc. Marcia Tatz Wollner: (858) 362-1174 • [email protected] Carol Korfin, The Glass Giraffe • Past & Presence • Pomegranate La Jolla — See page 18 — Priscilla E. Rogers, Ooh-La-La Designs • Lisa Slovis • Marie Studer Designs Mona Trunkfield 4 VENUE: NORTH COUNTY, TEMPLE SOLEL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 continued BOOKSTORE HOURS: 9:00 A.M.–9:30 P.M. Leonard Mlodinow Daniel Smith TALK @ 2 • 2:00 P.M. TEA & TALK • 4:00 P.M. Leonard Mlodinow, Subliminal: Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior There’s nothing funny about high-anxiety… unless you’re hearing about it from Want to know how YOU actually understand the world? In Subliminal, physicist, Daniel Smith! The author’s discussion of his new book, Monkey Mind is both professor, and author Leonard Mlodinow explores and analyzes the subconscious, humorous and eye-opening. True clinical anxiety goes far beyond mere nail-biting, the hidden engine within us all that drives how we perceive—and misperceive— and can tend toward “existential ruin,” as the author elegantly puts it. Join Smith the world both around us and within us. Mlodinow went from teaching science, on his journey from a somewhat-more-than-average-nervous kid on his first day of to writing Star Trek and MacGyver scripts, to charting a course all his own, a man college, to a young adult whose anxiety torpedoed more than a few relationships, who Stephen Hawking (a coauthor of two books) says, “…never fails to make to a grown man who has learned to tame his condition with a combination of science both accessible and entertaining.” fearlessness and humor.