Dear All, Please save the date for a special program with Dr. Erica Brown on *Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 11:00 AM ET* on Zoom. Dr. Brown will be speaking about her recent book, *Esther: Power, Fate, and Fragility in Exile*. The program is sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries/Capital Area Chapter (AJL/CAC) with the support of AJL National and is free and open to all. Advance registration is required. More information about the program, including registration, and our distinguished speaker is below.
Special thanks to Dr. Erica Brown, Jackie Ben-Efraim, Michelle Chesner, Nahid Gerstein, Rebecca Levitan, and Gail Shirazi! We look forward to seeing you there! All my best, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub AJL/CAC President =========================================================== Title of Program: Esther and the Threshold Moment: A Study of Art and Text Speaker: Dr. Erica Brown Where: on Zoom When: Sunday, October 10, 2021, 11:00 AM Eastern Time Time: Oct 10, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Registration Information: You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Oct 10, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdemvpjovEtCgbDnzbqQREc19106U6Tbw__;!!KGKeukY!mez8Ed3dd8E8S93KrANAby31nZuJqm4okLbxPcxUSoNIs8W4Xh-SiE_XnwlRv-NNaMbDTV7jtYu2dyo$ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Speaker Bio: Dr. Erica Brown is the director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership and an associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The George Washington University. Erica has a daily podcast, “Take Your Soul to Work” and is the author of twelve books on leadership, the Hebrew Bible and spirituality. Her latest book Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile (Maggid) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Council award. She has been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, First Things, and The Jewish Review of Books and wrote a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week. She has blogged for Psychology Today, Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith” and JTA and tweeted on one page of Talmud study a day at DrEricaBrown. Erica was a Jerusalem Fellow, is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow and the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award for her work in education. Erica enjoys conducting interviews and moderating panels to get to know writers, thinkers and opinion makers and has been called the “Terry Gross of the Jewish world.” She has interviewed former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, David Brooks, Jeffrey Goldberg, David Gregory, Moshe Halbertal, Shai Held, Leon Wieseltier, Yehuda Mersky, Ruth Messinger, Sarah Hurwitz, David Makovsky, Dennis Ross, Deborah Lipstadt and others. Erica has degrees from Yeshiva University, University of London, Harvard University and Baltimore Hebrew University. She previously served as the scholar-in-residence at both The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston and as the community scholar for the Jewish Center of New York. She currently serves as a community scholar for Congregation Etz Chaim in Livingston, NJ. Erica is also the author of Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet, Take Your Soul to Work: 365 Meditations on Everyday Leadership and Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death (Simon and Schuster), which won both the Wilbur and Nautilus awards for spiritual writing. Her previous books include Inspired Jewish Leadership, a National Jewish Book Award finalist, Spiritual Boredom, Confronting Scandal and co-authored The Case for Jewish Peoplehood (All Jewish Lights). She also wrote Seder Talk: A Conversational Haggada, Leadership in the Wilderness, In the Narrow Places and Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe (All OU/Koren).
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