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Federation Star
JEWISH FEDERATION
October 2020
Lori Gottlieb to kick off the 2020-21 Jewish Book Festival By Carole J Greene
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ll things come to those who Festival, kicking it off December 3 at 7:30 wait,” goes the 19th-century p.m. Her virtual presentation will allow adage. Your patience is about to all of us a front-row seat. Lori’s private pracbe rewarded. Psychotherapist, advice columnist and author tice in Los Angeles Lori Gottlieb was scheduled provides her with opportunities to counsel as our People of the Book presenter last February. At the last patients in crisis. When a crisis in her own life minute, she had to cancel. We hosted someone else, of course, crashes around her, but we always had the hope we she looks for the same could manage to get Lori here kind of answers her patients seek. In her book, sometime, somehow. We’ve done it! Lori Gottlieb Maybe You Should Talk will be our inaugural author to Someone, we get a peek Lori Gottlieb behind the curtains for the 2020-21 Jewish Book
to discover the world of both clinician and patient. What results is the chance to examine the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and each other. Her funny and thought-provoking book becomes a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, an illuminating account of our own mysterious lives, and our power to transform them. In addition to penning best-selling nonfiction books, Lori writes a national advice column published weekly in The Atlantic. She also writes for The New York Times and appears frequently as a relationship expert on The Today Show; CBS
This Morning; Good Morning, America, and on CNN and NPR. To purchase tickets for the opening JBF event, featuring Lori Gottlieb, just visit www. jewishbookfestival.org. The cost for this event is $18 a ticket, per household. Platinum and Silver Patrons will receive a complimentary copy of Lori’s book as one of the benefits. Look elsewhere in this issue of the Federation Star for a listing of authors and book titles for the entire festival, along with information on purchasing tickets and on becoming a Platinum, Silver or Bronze Patron.
Fill your calendar with these Zoom-tastic Events! 2020-2021 Jewish Book Festival Author Lineup Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Wednesday, Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m. The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the Gang, and the Meaning of Life by Andrew Michael Blauner Friday, Dec. 11 at 10:30 a.m. Love is a Rebellious Bird by Elayne Klasson. Evening by Nessa Rapoport Thursday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m. In the Cauldron by Lew Paper
Tuesday, Dec. 22 at 1 p.m. A Rabbi at Sea by Rabbi Corinne Copnick Wednesday, Jan. 6 at 3 p.m. Citizen 865: Hunt for Hitler's Soldiers by Debbie Cenziper Monday, Jan. 11 at 4 p.m. Donna Has Left the Building by Susan Jane Gilman
The Watergate Girl by Jill Wine-Banks Monday, Jan. 25 at 1 p.m. The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 10:30 a.m. Red Sea Spies by Raffi Berg Monday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. Laugh Lines by Alan Zweibel
Thursday, Jan. 14 at 7:30 p.m. White Hot Grief Parade by Alexandra Silber
Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 1 p.m. Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Steven E. Zipperstein
Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 10:30 a.m. The Genius of Women by Janice Kaplan
Monday, Feb. 15 at 1 p.m. Night of the Assassins by Howard Blum
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