Celebrate the Second Night of Hanukkah with Novelist Jean Meltzer in a Virtual JBC Author Talk on The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah

Monday, December 15 at 7pm on Zoom. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FaNS5kImR4Cu8w666Gls3A

Prepare your latkes, light your hanukiya and set up your Zoom for this fun talk. We’ll enjoy a Hanukkah evening together with Jean Meltzer, who wittily weaves Judaism into her popular romance novels. This one has a Dicken’s twist. Can these exes rekin­dle their love this Hanukkah? Eve­lyn Schwartz has the per­fect Hanukkah planned: eight jam-packed days pro­duc­ing the live-action tele­vised musi­cal of A Christ­mas Car­ol. Who needs fam­i­ly when you’ve got long hours, impos­si­ble dead­lines, and your dream job? That is, until an acci­dent on set lands her in the med­ical bay with one of her chron­ic migraines, and she’s shocked to find her ex-hus­band fill­ing in for the usu­al stu­dio doc­tor. When Eve­lyn begins hal­lu­ci­nat­ing ​“ghosts” tied to her past heart­breaks, and every sin­gle one leads to David, he finds him­self spend­ing much more time with her than he antic­i­pat­ed. As Eve­lyn revis­its her ghosts of Hanukkah past, she and David both begin to won­der if they can have a Hanukkah future. It might just take a Hanukkah mir­a­cle for these two exes to light the flame on their sec­ond-chance at love.

Jean Meltzer spent five years in rab­bini­cal school before her chron­ic ill­ness forced her to with­draw, and her father told her she should write a book — just not a Jew­ish one because no one reads those. The Eight Heart­breaks of Hanukkah is her fifth novel.

Dubbed “The Queen of Jewish Romance,” Jean Meltzer is the international bestselling author of The Matzah Ball, Mr. Perfect on Paper, Kissing Kosher, and Magical Meet Cute, and the recipient of several writing honors including Amazon Best Romance, Apple Best Book of October, Apple Best Audiobook of the Year, Booklist Top Ten Romances for 2023, a starred review in Kirkus, a starred review in Booklist, and LibraryReads.

Jean’s commitment to uplifting Jewish stories and voices has made her a leading figure in Jewish literary advocacy. She is the Founder & CEO of Jewish Joy LLC, the umbrella organization to Jewish Women Talk About Romance Books, The Jewish Joy Book Club, The Jewish Joy Box, and Jewish Joy Con, a groundbreaking three-day event celebrating the best in pop-culture, storytelling, and creativity, scheduled for March 13-15th at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL. In addition, she has served as a judge for the National Jewish Book Awards, and is a founding member of The Artists Against Antisemitism.