The Book Circle has chosen to read an account of a shocking true story as its November selection. The group will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 3:30 p.m., on CTI’s Zoom to talk about Allegra Goodman’s story, Isola. In this thriller, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and privilege. Suddenly orphaned, her guardian spends her inheritance, then takes her on a trip where she is accused of betrayal, punished and abandoned [...]

Coming up on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 3:30, at the shul, the Book Circle will meet the Fletcher family and come to terms with a deep-seated generational trauma and how that morphed into the destructive nature of wealth, identity and personal fulfillment. The October selection is titled Long Island Compromise, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. The Book Circle meets monthly to explore books by Jewish writers exploring Jewish topics. For more information about the group, email [...]

The Book Circle will meet on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 3 p.m. in Andrew Levin Park to explore a father-son relationship as each looks differently at the battle for human rights in Palestine. In his personal memoir, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, Raja Shehadeh reveals the complexities of their relationship. It is, in essence, not only the story of the battle against various oppressors in the region, but also a [...]

The Book Circle will meet on Thursday, August 28, at 3:25 p.m. (yes, that’s correct), in the garden at the shul to dig into a juicy spy novel, Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon. Meet Nancy Wake, in Paris working for a newspaper when she gets swept into WWII. The novel follows Nancy’s transformation from journalist to one of the most powerful leaders of the French Resistance, known for her wit, red lipstick, and [...]

Book Circle meets Thursday, July 24, at 3:15 p.m., in the CTI garden. In 1789, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits the grave of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, looking for a sign, a signal, an answer to an enigma that has haunted him since childhood: Was Bach murdered? Allegro by Ariel Dorfman follows the investigation, from the salons of London to the streets of Paris. Parallel is the rise of Mozart, his fame and his [...]

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 [...]

The Book Circle will meet on Thursday, May 15, at 3 p.m., in the community room at the shul, where the group will talk about Goyhood, a debut novel by Reuven Fenton. Here, a devoutly Orthodox man discovers in middle age that he is not, in fact, Jewish. He is, however, a Talmud scholar, married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world. Now what? Meyer Belkin grapples with a God he [...]

The Book Circle will meet on Wednesday, April 30, at 3 p.m., in the community room at the shul, where the group will talk about The Safekeep, by Yael Van Der Wouden, in whose debut novel it is learned that a house and its people are not what they seem. It is a dark tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the [...]