JEWISH book arts FAIR 33rd Annual 33rd October 30 – November 13, 2005 Underwritten by The Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation The Jewish Community Center of Houston Funded by The Jewish Community Center of Houston’s Patrons of the Arts • OPEN TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY 5601 South Braeswood Houston, Texas 77096 713-729-3200 • www.Jcchouston.org Bookstore Hours 2005 Jewish Book and Arts Fair Steering Committee SUN - THU 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Chair Co-Chair FRI 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Joyce Gilbert Susan Farb Morris SAT 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Arts and Culture Films Program Steering Committee Norri Leder Daniel Musher Book signing after each program Bobbi Samuels, Chair Susan Schneider Hospitality Book Store Volunteer Managers June Pool Program Volunteers Evelyn Ballard Bonnie Cohen ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE Hosts Peggy and Mel Fine Linda Chess Myrna Aber RECOMMENDED Louise Kershman Susan Altschuler Publicity Ruth Morris Dita Dafny Barbara Rosenberg Sheila Sack Series Tickets may be purchased by using one of Leah Lax Cindy Sax the following options: Cynthia Stetzer Glenda Waldman Beverly Sufian Pam Pearl Purchase tickets online at Sponsors Brochure Marketing and Outreach www. .org Simone Berry or Norri Leder Bunny Radoff Dede Mayer Karen Bodner IN PERSON: Music Sue Goott Visit the JCC Information Desk Book Selection Janice Rubin Olga Gordon or come to the box office 30 minutes prior Barbara Lindenberg Jill Reichman Patron Campaign to the start of a program. Children’s Terry Cominsky Marci Rosenberg Teri Straus BY PHONE: Books and Programs Eve Lapin Patron Events Purchase your tickets by calling 713-551-7255 Store Design Lauri Sack Stella Blumenthal Relda Finger-Hoffer Donna Frankoff Orna Feinstein SAVE MONEY ON PROGRAMS Memorial Lecture Carol Samet Buy a Book and Arts Fair Series Ticket Richard Frankoff Lyn Schmulen $42 JCC Members/$62 Public $5 Discount for Seniors/Students Jewish Community Center $1 Discount for seniors & students on single tickets President Arts and Culture Assistant Marketing and Development Nancy Lerner Bethany Daniels Director Debra Shniderson Executive Vice President Book Store Manager Book and Arts Fair authors and special presentations Jerry Wische Barbara Lindenberg Marketing and Public Relations take place in the I.W. Marks Theatre Center Associate Executive Director Melissa Gordon and the Oshman Gymnasium Dance Director Stuart Raynor Maxine Silberstein at the Jewish Community Center Communications Coordinator Program Director Donna Rappaport Joe Weingarten Building Arts and Culture Assistant Dance Director 5601 South Braeswood Marilyn Hassid Linda Gomez Marketing and Development Assistant Theatre Manager Arts and Culture Program Leigh Savage The Jewish Community Center of Houston's Coordinator Jerry Lynch Jewish Book and Arts Fair Jennifer Handy is a member of the Jewish Book Fair Network. Thank you to the Jewish Book Council Director, Sponsoring Organizations Carolyn Starman Hessel and Miri Pomerantz AIA Houston • American Jewish Committee • AJC Women’s Dialogue American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) • American Society for Technion The following authors appear in cooperation Anti-Defamation League • B & P One/B & P Connections of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston with the Beren Academy • Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance • Camp Young Judaea - Texas Chevra Kadisha • Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Congregation Beth Israel Brotherhood • Congregation Beth Israel Sisterhood • Congregation Beth Rambam Matthew Goodman Congregation Beth Yeshurun Sisterhood • Congregation Beth Yeshurun Brotherhood • Congregation Brith Shalom Sisterhood Congregation Emanu El Sisterhood • Congregation Shaar Hashalom Sisterhood • Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest Azriela Jaffe The Emery/Weiner School •Hebrew Speakers Professional Organization • Holocaust Museum Houston Eric Konigsberg Houston Chapter of Hadassah • Houston Council of Jewish Holocaust Survivors • Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism Houston Friends of Yiddish • Houston Hillel • Houston Kashruth Association • Jewish Family Service Laurel Leff Jewish Feminist Reading Group • Jewish Genealogical Society • Jewish Information Center of Houston Daniel Libeskind Jewish Women International • Meyerland Minyan • Monday Dialogues National Council of Jewish Women – Greater Houston Section Jennifer Miller Pearl Schwartz – Houston Chapter of AMIT • Six Mothers • Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services • State of Israel Bonds Abigail Pogrebin Temple Beth Torah • Texas Jewish Historical Society • United Orthodox Synagogues Adult Education Committee United Orthodox Synagogues Sisterhood • West Houston Lodge of B’nai B’rith Shulamit Reinharz Women’s Division Jewish Federation of Greater Houston • Yiddish Vinkel • Young Israel of Houston Rabbi Shlomo Riskin The Young Mom’s Alliance of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Naomi Rosenblatt Thank you to our Day Chairs Ilan Stavans Marsha Abramson • Maida Asofsky • Bernice Blum • Karen Krinsky Collman• Stuart Diamond • Beverly Fanarof Ellen Hamberg • Julie Hershorn • Carol Hershkowitz • Sharon Kagan • Barbara Kalmans • Annette Kavin • Nadia Leibovitz Judith Viorst Marilyn Leiman • Ellen Leventhal • Steven Miller • Ruth Morris • Cookie Portnoy • Ruth Rabie • Sheila Sack Ellen Trachtenberg • Lea Weems Due to circumstances beyond our control Thank you to our Set Up Committee programs are subject to change. Martha Barvin • Sandy Block • Stella Blumenthal • Ellen DeLap • Arza Funk • Amira Reiter • Naomi Rosner • Mignon Wolf Bookstore Design by Marc A. Gessner • Brochure Design by Diandra Ellis 33rd Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 FILM Judith Viorst Watermarks 2:00 P.M. 4:30 P.M. Israel, 2004, 77 min, Hebrew, German and English I’m Too Young To Be Seventy with English subtitles and Other Delusions Judith Viorst, the beloved bestselling author of Director: Yaron Zilberman Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty, now Back by popular demand after being shown in tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with her March at the Houston Jewish Film Festival, Watermarks is the usual wry good humor. Fans of Viorst’s funny poems about story of seven champion women swimmers from the legendary turning 30, 40, 50 and 60 will laugh again as she explores the Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. In 1938, the swimmers fled pleasures of shopping, grandparenthood, and being married Austria after the Nazis shut down the club. Sixty-five years later, while thermostatically incompatible. I’m Too Young To Be director Yaron Zilberman interviewed the women in their Seventy makes a heartwarming gift for anyone who has homes around the world and arranged a reunion for them at reached or is soon to reach their 70th birthday. their old swimming pool in Vienna. Told by the swimmers, Sponsored by Betsy and Ed Schreiber Watermarks is the remarkable saga of seven courageous athletes who still swim daily as they age with grace. Best Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Cinematography at the Jerusalem International Film Festival. June Levitt Nislick Free to Series Ticket Holders • $6 JCC Member • $8 Public 4:00 P.M. AGES 8-12 Senator Barbara Boxer Zayda Was a Cowboy 8:00 P.M. Author program and family Kosher BBQ A Time to Run Hear this extraordinary story of how one family and one young boy in particular are changed Written with an insider’s perspective, Senator forever when Zayda (Yiddish for grandfather) comes to live Barbara Boxer’s remarkable literary debut is an with them. Zayda’s saga of how he left Russia and later became authentic, compelling novel of a woman’s life a cowboy will entrance young readers, their parents and in the U.S. Senate. When Ellen Fines’ husband teachers. While the characters are fictional, Zayda’s experiences is killed, Ellen assumes his candidacy for the U.S. Senate and are historically correct and are a colorful retelling of a wins. On the eve of a crucial vote, Ellen’s former lover gives her fascinating yet little-known time in Jewish-American history. documents that could make or break her career. Writing with This funny, touching and memorable book is destined to be a Mary-Rose Hayes, Boxer tells an exciting tale of friendship and favorite for years to come. betrayal, idealism and pragmatism, infighting and public spin. Boxer, who has served as California’s Democratic senator since Underwritten by Shirley and Bruce Stein 1993, is one of the most admired and respected figures on the $8 JCC Member Family • $12 Public Family political scene. Underwritten by The Pulaski Rauch Fund Houston Children Paint Israel Free to Series Ticket Holders • $13 JCC Member • $18 Public 2:00 – 4:00 P.M. Open workshop for students in grades 1-12 to create a drawing or painting for the art contest (materials provided). Exhibition Opening • Deutser Gallery Sunday, December 4 Please help feed the most vulnerable Jewish Community Center • 3:30 P.M. of our population, homebound seniors, by bringing canned food items to the JCC This project is partially underwritten with funding from the Houston Jewish Community Foundation. Sponsored by Young Israel of on Sunday, October 30. Collection boxes Houston and The Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest will be located in the Lobby. 3 33rd Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 David Klinghoffer Shulamit Reinharz 8:00 P.M. 6:15 P.M. Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: American Jewish Women and the The Turning Point in Western History Zionist Enterprise