November 2, 2006
Jewish Book Month’s Table of Contents
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Host: The Jewish Book Festival, presented by the Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys, Nov. 2-Dec. 3
Author: David Brog, Nov. 30
Book: "Standing With Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State"
Scoop: This Capitol Hill insider says evangelical Christian Zionists are Israel's friends, not foes
Info: At Sinai Temple of Glendale: (818) 246-8101 (the event is sponsored by The Jewish Journal)
Author: Sandy Tolan, Dec. 3
Book: "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the Heart of the Middle East"
Scoop: True story of the friendship between a Holocaust survivor whose only son died in a terrorist attack, and a Palestinian whose relatives were killed by an Israeli missile
Info: At Beth Shalom of Whittier: (562) 941-8744
Host: The Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles
Author: Michelle Markel, Nov. 19
Book: "Dreamer From the Village: The Story of Marc Chagall"
Scoop: Portrait of the artist as a shtetl kid who worked hard and made good
Info: At the Jewish Community Library: (323) 761-8644
Host: ALOUD at Central Library
Author: David Mamet, Nov. 8
Book: "The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred and the Jews"
Scoop: The Pulitzer Prize winner will dish on his scathing new tome with Los Angeles Times Book Review Editor David L. Ulin
Info: At the Central Library downtown; for reservations: (213) 228-7025 or www.aloudla.org
Author: Steve Wozniak, Nov. 30
Book: "Iwoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon -- How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple and Had Fun Doing It"
Scoop: Geek sheds his low profile to tell all about how he masterminded the most globe-altering invention of this past century
Info: See above
-- Naomi Pfefferman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
