Falmouth Jewish Congregation's Schedule of Jewish Book Council Author Talks in 2025-2026

Take one hour of your day and expand your horizons through this season's diverse author talks, both in-person and virtual

All virtual programs are free of charge. Most in-person programs include a small fee for non-members. Please check on the specific event for registration instructions.

Thursday, August 28 at 7:30pm | Virtual

Jong-Fast, Molly          How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir

Thursday, September 18 at Noon | Virtual

Tsabari, Ayelet  Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel

A beautiful, award-winning novel about forbidden and found love among Yemeni immigrants to Israel in the 1950s and today.

Thursday, October 16 at 7:00 P.M. | In-Person

Rothstein, Marilyn       Who Loves You Best: A Novel

Rothstein, author of this funny novel about a grandmother’s love and personal strivings, has been described as a hilarious stand-up comic.

Thursday, October 30 at 7:00 P.M. | In-Person with demonstration

Simons, Rachel  Sesame: Global Recipes + Stories of an Ancient Seed [A Cookbook]

 

Tuesday, November 18 at 1:00 P.M. | Virtual | JBC Jewish Book Month 100 One Community Event: Rabbi Angela Buchdahl in Conversation with Abigail Pogrebin

Buchdahl, Angela         Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging

 

Monday, December 22 at 7:00 P.M. | Virtual | Hanukkah Program

Meltzer, Jean     The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah

 

Tuesday, January 20 at 7:30 P.M. | Virtual | Honoring MLK National Holiday

Resnick, Judith  Impermissible Punishments: How Prisons Became a Problem for Democracy

 

Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 1:00 P.M. | In-Person | International Holocaust Remembrance Day

PLEASE NOTE: due to the approaching storm, it may be necessary to shift to Zoom for this program. Return to the website for further information on the day of the event.

Graham, Rebecca Brenner    Dear Mrs. Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany

 

February 12 at 7:00 P.M. | Virtual

Eisner, Jane       Carol King: She Made the Earth Move (Yale U. Press Jewish Lives Series)

 

February 26 at 7:00 P.M. | Virtual

Denby, David     Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer

 

March 12 at 7:00 P.M. | Virtual

Carner, Talia               The Boy with the Star Tattoo: A Novel

 

Sunday, March 22 at 7:00 P.M. | Virtual | Two-Author Discussion on American Jews and Slavery | Passover Program

Kreitner, Richard        Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery

Shari Rabin The Jewish South: An American History

 

Sunday, April 12 at 7:00 P.M. | Virtual | Yom HaShoah Program

Bruner, Alexander   Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz, by Joszef Debreczeni, Paul Olchvary translator

 

Thursday, May 14 at 7:00 P.M. | Virtual

Cockerell, Rachel                  Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land

 

Thursday, June 11 at 7:00 P.M. | Virtual

Joseph, Barry              Matching Minds with Sondheim: The Puzzles and Games of the Broadway Legend