Core Connects RI Book Group, "The Choice" by Maggie Anton
Wed, Jun 15
|Zoom
A powerful love story with a purpose: to focus on Jewish customs concerning women, marriage, and equality.


Time & Location
Jun 15, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Zoom
Guests
About the Event
A powerful love story with a purpose: to focus Jewish customs concerning women, marriage, and equality. The award-winning author of "Rashi's Daughters," Maggie Anton, has written a wholly transformative novel that takes characters inspired by Chaim Potok and ages them into young adults in Brooklyn in the 1950s, a time of Elvis & Marilyn, communist scares & polio vaccines, Jewish migration & American integration. When Hannah Eisin, a successful journalist, interviews Rabbi Nathan Mandel, a controversial Talmud professor, she persuades him to teach her the mysteries of the text forbidden to women—even though it might cost him his job if discovered. Secret meetings and lively discussions bring the two to the edge of a line that neither dares to cross, as their relationships with each other and Judaism are tested. Join us for what promises to be an interesting conversation.