75th CRC Annual Meeting

Description

Join us for the 75th Annual Meeting of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Community Relations Committee & Sidney Z. Vincent Memorial Lecture.

Featuring Dara Horn, author of People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present.

Horn joins Noah Bickart, PhD, visiting assistant professor - theology and religious studies at John Carroll University, in conversation about her award-winning book about contemporary antisemitism. Plus, explore how your Federation works to fight antisemitism.

Both virtual and in-person options available.

Pre-registration is required.

In-person Event*

7 pm main event
8:30 pm dessert reception
Kosher dietary laws observed

Green Road Synagogue
2437 S Green Road
Beachwood, OH 44122

Virtual Event

7 pm
Zoom link will be provided upon registration

Cost: Free

In-person attendees can also pre-order a signed copy of Dara Horn's book to receive at the event for $18.


Register Here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/75th-crc-annual-meeting-registration-261397676487?aff=websiteevent

Dara Horn is the award-winning author of six books, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002), The World to Come (Norton 2006), All Other Nights (Norton 2009), A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013), and Eternal Life (Norton 2018), and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews (Norton 2021). One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Harold U. Ribalow Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet. Horn received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and has held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard.

*Your health and safety is our top priority and we are closely monitoring the current situation with COVID-19. We have adopted the following protocols in consultation with our medical advisors. Masks will be required for all individuals joining us at the event. We ask that all eligible adults who choose to join us in person are vaccinated.