This month, the Book Circle will read and discuss The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad, winner of a National Jewish Book Award for Hebrew Fiction in Translation. The group will meet on Thursday, June 19, at 3 p.m., in the community room of the shul.

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States seek to overcome crises in their lives. In three novellas, the celebrated Israeli writer Maya Arad probes the demise of idealism and the generation gap that her heroines must confront.

The Book Circle meets monthly to explore books by Jewish authors writing on topics of Jewish interest. For more information about the Book Circle and its current selection, email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator of the group.

Author Reuven Fenton visits the Book Circle Group

Reuven Fenton, pictured right, author of the novel Goyhood, the Book Circle group’s May selection, visited the session to talk about the storyline and his inspiration for writing it.

The narrative conceives a devoutly Orthodox man, who discovers in middle age that he is not, in fact, Jewish. He is, however a Talmud scholar, married into one of the great rabbinical families in the world. The big question: Now what?

The sessions are held on Zoom and in person. Those attending in person display the book cover. Susan Rosenstreich, in blue, leads the group’s monthly meetings.