The Beit Tikvah Bagels and Books will meet the second Saturday of each month at 10:00 a.m. in the Beit Tikvah Library. All of our books are easily accessible at public libraries or bookstores in the community.

Discussion facilitators will provide bagels and fixings. Bring a drink for yourself, and a little something to share with the group (veggies, fruit, a sweet, etc.).

Join The Beit Tikvah Bagels and Books Club on May 10 for discussion of:

The World to Come

by Dara Horn.

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The reading schedule for 2007-2008 is:

October 13 - Disobedience by Naomi Alderman. (Fiction). A woman struggles to reconcile her Orthodoxy with the modern world.

November 10 - Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by Stephen Bloom. (Non-Fiction). A group of Lubavitchers open a kosher slaughterhouse just outside tiny Postville, Iowa.

January 12 - Exile by Richard North Patterson. (Fiction). An intricate tale of betrayal and conflict set in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

February 9 - Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker. (Biography). A young woman looks back on her unique struggle for identity.

March 15 - The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham (Fiction). A coming-of-age story dealing with arranged marriage among Hasidic Jews.

April 12- The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn. (Non-Fiction). A man searches for six family members lost in the Holocaust.

May 10- The World to Come by Dara Horn (Fiction). A painting by Marc Chagall becomes the lens through which the author explores the history of a Jewish family.

June 14 - Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick. (Historical Fiction). A Depression era story dealing with a young immigrant assistant to a German professor.

If you have any questions, contact Beth Bugnaski or Marjorie Davis.