On November 8 7:00 pm Join Rabbi Resnick (and 20 other Westchester Rabbis) for "A Night of Jewish Learning" at Bethel Synagogue Center, New Rochelle.

Register here.

For more information and a list of participating Rabbis, click here [or see flyer in PJC office.]

In the next installment of Textline: Jewish Authors on Jewish Writing, our Fall Speaker Series, Shira Dicker, author of Lolita at Leonard’s of Great Neck and Other Stories From the Before Times, will speak at the PJC Sunday November 9 at 10:00 am.

Dicker, a self-described daughter of the first wave of feminism, is an activist and advocate on behalf of religious pluralism in Israel. The mother of three adult children and grandmother of three, she lives with her husband, the writer Ari L. Goldman, and her Pomeranian Luke Wilson on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. 

If you were inspired by PJC Scholar-in-Residence Prof Josh Lambert's talks on Jewish writers and the "Literary Mafia" on Oct. 24-25. you may be interested in this upcoming online course from My Jewish Learning!

Being a Jewish Writer: Themes from the 18th Century to Today

Sundays at 5:00 p.m. ET, Nov. 16 - Dec. 21

How have authors such as Yehuda Amichai, Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick, Hannah Arendt and Etgar Keret explored their Jewish identities?

For more information & to enroll, click here

Prime Minister Menachim Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 27, 1978, in recognition of their initiation of a peace process that began with the Camp David Accords overseen by President Jimmy Carter (see photo) and led to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. It was the first peace agreement Israel had signed with any Arab country."No more wars, no more bloodshed," Begin told Sadat at Camp David. "Peace unto you. Shalom, Salaam, forever."