Katz JCC Festival of ABC Brochure 2021

NOVEMBER 4-14, 2021 katzjcc.org/abcfest Literature • Visual Arts • Entertainment Comedy • Current Events

FESTIVAL PREVIEW EVENTS! Included for all PLATINUM & GOLD PATRONS and SERIES SUBSCRIBERS Sunday 3October David Rubenstein 8:00 pm • VIRTUAL ONLY! The American Experiment In this lively collection of conversations, some of our nations’ greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas. The American Experiment captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is—and what it can be. TICKETS: Member: $11 ($40 includes book) • Guest: $11 ($40 includes book) Held in conjunction with the National JCC Literary Consortium. Monday 11October Gary Ginsberg 8:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL First Friends: The Powerful Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents Sponsored by Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP Ginsberg, a former Clinton aide, breaks new literary ground on Pennsylvania Avenue and provides fresh insights into the lives of those who held the most powerful political office in the world by looking at the friends on whom they relied. First Friends is an engaging, serendipitous look into the lives of Commanders-in-Chief and how their presidencies were shaped by those they held most dear. For example, when Harry Truman wavered on whether to recognize the state of Israel in 1948, his lifelong friend and former business partner, Eddie Jacobson, intervened at just the right moment with just the right words to steer the president’s decision. TICKETS: Member: $40 (Includes book) • Guest: $48 (Includes book)

Wednesday 13October Mindy Weisel 8:00 pm • VIRTUAL ONLY! After: The Obligation of Beauty In conversation with Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat This compelling, candid memoir by Mindy Weisel, an internationally acclaimed artist and author, traces her search for beauty in her life. Weisel was born at Bergen-Belsen’s Displaced Person’s Camp to parents who survived Auschwitz. This is not her parents’ story, rather, it is a courageous portrait of her struggle to understand her origin. TICKETS: Member: $11 • Guest: $11 Held in conjunction with the National JCC Literary Consortium. Wednesday 20October David Grossman 12:30 pm • VIRTUAL ONLY! More Than I Love My Life In conversation with Marilyn Hassid, Jewish Book Council Join international best-selling author David Grossman in a conversation about love, trauma, and healing. More Than I Love My Life is a novel about three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told. Grossman will allow the audience a peek inside his inspiration for writing this book and more. FREE Register at jewishbookcouncil.org Held in conjunction with the Buy tickets at katzjcc.org/abcfest Need assistance? Contact our Festival Concierge Service: (856) 424-4444 x1706 or x1247 All orders must be paid in full via credit card. Refund will only be granted if program is cancelled.

4Thursday November Sasha Issenberg 1:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL The Engagement: America’s Quarter- Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage In conversation with Susan Bass Levin, Former President/CEO of The Cooper Foundation & Former Mayor of Cherry Hill Sponsored by Susan Bass Levin and Family On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the United States. But the road to victory was much longer than many know. In this seminal work, Issenberg takes us back to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state’s courts first started grappling with the question, through the emergence of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 that raised marriage to a national issue, to the first legal same-sex weddings in Massachusetts, to the epic face-off over California’s Proposition 8, and finally to the landmark Supreme Court decisions of Windsor and Obergefell. TICKETS: Member: $12 • Guest: $15 Held in conjunction with Michael Bar Zohar 8:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL The Mossad Amazons: The Amazing Women in the Israeli Secret Service In conversation with Oded Kraus, Katz JCC Executive Director Sponsored by Townsend Press / Judy Nadell • John Langan From one of Israel’s foremost experts on espionage comes stories recounting the turbulent lives, loves and perilous missions of the greatest Mossad lohamot, the female warriors of the Israeli Secret Service. These strong, bold women prove that they are equal to men, and often even better. They had to fight a painful solitude, an awkward attitude of their male colleagues, and often give up their dream of marriage and children. For many years, the activities of the Mossad lohamot were highly classified by the authorities. Today, the veil of secrecy has been lifted, the Amazons’ incredible exploits have been cleared for publication, and will soon come to life on screen with actress Anne Hathaway. TICKETS: Member: $25 • Guest: $30

Friday 5November Atlantic City Panel 10:00 am • VIRTUAL ONLY! In conversation with Dr. Dan Gottlieb, Ph.D. WHYY Voices in the Family host Rachel Beanland Florence Adler Swims Forever Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers and move into the small apartment above their bakery. When tragedy strikes, Esther makes the shocking decision to hide the truth‚ and pulls the family into an elaborate web of secret-keeping and lies in this debut novel. Molly Golubcow The Hotel on St. James Place By the early 1970s, Atlantic City had seen better days, however, it was not without its charms. It was vastly different than the small shtetl in Poland where Holocaust survivors Harry and Sonia Golubcow once lived. When they became the proprietors of the Seacrest Hotel on St. James Place, they brought their memories with them and maintained their Old World ways. Let’s go to St. James Place and pay a visit to the Seacrest Hotel, as Molly Golubcow, Harry and Sonia’s daughter, vividly remembers it. TICKETS: Member: $15 • Guest: $18 6Saturday November Low Cut Connie in Concert 8:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL Evening includes snacks, beverages, wine and beer for those who are in person Sponsored by SJ Magazine Low Cut Connie released Private Lives last year to rave reviews, ultimately earning its place at #34 on Rolling Stone’s “50 best Albums of 2020” list, and #1 on PopMatters “25 Best Americana Albums of 2020” list. The New Yorker dubbed Adam Weiner, a Cherry Hill native, “Pandemic Person of the Year” and the title track “Private Lives,” was also one of “Public Radio’s Most Popular Songs Of 2020.” TICKETS: Member: $35 • Guest: $45

Sunday 7November Ann D. Koffsky 9:00 am • VIRTUAL ONLY! Kayla and Kugel’s Happy Hanukkah Sponsored by Safety Bus Service Get out your crayons, markers and a BIG piece of paper to draw along with author Ann D. Koffsky! She’ll show us how she illustrates a book and we’ll do our own drawings as we laugh and smile along with Kayla and Kugel! FREE • REGISTRATION REQUIRED A perfect morning for children 3 - 5 year old and their parents, grandparents and/or caregivers! Robert Lefkowitz, MD 11:00 am • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL Robert will attend VIRTUALLY A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm In conversation with Dr. Andrew Mulberg, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs at Neurogene and Katz JCC Board Member Sponsored by HQSI Rollicking memoir from a cardiologist turned legendary scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2012. FREE • REGISTRATION REQUIRED SHOP OUR BOOK STORE! The Festival book store will be open 30 minutes before, during and 30 minutes after each in person event.

Sunday 7November Mitchell James Kaplan 1:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL Rhapsody In conversation with Michael Ludwig, Concertmaster of the Philly Pops Sponsored by Natalie & Dr. Warren Werbitt In 1924, Katharine “Kay” Swift and her husband attended a concert featuring “Rhapsody in Blue,” by a young musical genius, George Gershwin. Kay and George’s ten-year love affair, complicated by her conflicted loyalty to her husband, ended only with Gershwin’s death from a brain tumor at the age of thirty-eight. Followed, at 1:45 pm, by a concert from the Wind Symphony of South Jersey, conducted by Dr. Robert J. Streckfuss, performing music of George Gershwin and his contemporaries. TICKETS: Member: $18 • Guest: $25 Hollywood Screen Writers Legacy Panel 8:00 pm • VIRTUAL ONLY! In conversation with Irv Slifkin, American Film Writer, Critic & Editor Nick Davis Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait A fascinating, complex biography of Hollywood’s most dazzling and famous brothers, one most famous for writing Citizen Kane; the other, All About Eve. In this moving portrait, woven together by Davis, the grandson of Herman and great-nephew of Joe, we see the lives of these two men–their dreams and desires, their fears and feuds–struggling to free themselves from their dark past and a system they loved and hated. Leslie Epstein Hill of Beans: A Novel of War and Celluloid Epstein’s Hill of Beans is the story of how one nation, one industry, and in particular one man responded to desperate hope. This is the novel that Epstein, the son and nephew of Philip and Julius Epstein, the screenwriters of Casablanca, was born to write. TICKETS: Member: $15 • Guest: $20

8Monday November Jake Cohen 10:00 am • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch Sponsored by Ravitz Family ShopRite/ Ravitz Family Foundation Cohen has reinvented the food of his Ashkenazi heritage and draws inspiration from his husband’s Persian-Iraqi traditions to offer recipes that are modern, fresh, and enticing for a whole new generation of readers. As Jake reconciles ancient traditions with our modern times, his recipes become a celebration of a rich and vibrant history, a love story of blending cultures, and an invitation to gather around the table and create new memories with family. TICKETS: Member: $12 • Guest: $15 Cold War Panel 1:00 pm • VIRTUAL ONLY! In conversation with Irene Afek, Katz JCC Librarian Meryl Ain The Takeaway Men In this novel, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War. Anne Sebba Ethel Rosenberg In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were led from Death Row and electrocuted moments apart, both convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government’s evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. 70 years after the trial, acknowledged biographer, Anne Sebba, tells Esther’s story for the first time with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer, and her psychotherapist over a three-year period. TICKETS: Member: $12 • Guest: $15

8Monday November Joel and Linda Appel Art Gallery Reception 6:30 pm • IN PERSON ONLY! Sponsored by Jay Roberts Jewelers Smadar Livne is a community favorite! Her paintings are mixed media acrylic on canvas. Blending photography and imagination printed on canvas, subtle messages are painted into each piece and require time for observation and reflection. Her art hangs in many private homes, Jewish centers, synagogues, and more around the world. Come meet Smadar and browse her newest collection! Artwork will be on display for the entire Festival and several weeks after. A percentage of sales support JCC cultural events and programs. FREE Annabelle Gurwitch 8:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility Sponsored by Alec & Jocelyn Price From the New York Times bestselling author of I See You Made an Effort comes a timely and hilarious chronicle of downward mobility, financial and emotional. With signature “sharp wit” (NPR), Gurwitch gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proves that our no-frills new normal doesn’t mean a deficit of humor. Gurwitch offers stories of resilience, adaptability and low-rent redemption. TICKETS: Member: $20 • Guest: $25

9Tuesday November Leah Garrett 10:00 am • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL Leah will attend VIRTUALLY X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II Sponsored by Hutchinson Plumbing, Heating & Cooling June 1942 - The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the European continent. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff formed an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees who escaped to Britain. The resulting volunteers were a motley group of intellectuals, artists, and athletes, most from Germany and Austria. Many had been interned as enemy aliens, and lost their whole worlds. Trained in counterintelligence and advanced combat, this top secret unit became known as X Troop. FREE • REGISTRATION REQUIRED Attending in person? This event will be at held the library. Held in conjunction with Community-Wide Kristallnacht Observance Heather Dune Macadam 7:00 pm • VIRTUAL ONLY! 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Sponsored by Valerie & David Gladfelter Endowment Fund of the JCF, Inc. This is the untold story of the 999 young, unmarried Jewish women who were tricked on March 25, 1942 into boarding the train that became the first official transport to Auschwitz. Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 999 draws on extensive interviews with survivors, historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees. FREE • REGISTRATION REQUIRED Held in conjunction with Buy tickets at katzjcc.org/abcfest Need assistance? Contact our Festival Concierge Service: (856) 424-4444 x1706 or x1247 All orders must be paid in full via credit card. Refund will only be granted if program is cancelled.

Wednesday 10November Dan Glickman 10:00 am • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL Laughing at Myself: My Education in Congress, on the Farm, and at the Movies Sponsored by Associates In Hearing HealthCare Glickman tells how a classic family background, religious heritage, and “Midwesternnice” roots led to a long and successful career in public service. He combines a steady sense of humor with serious reflection on his rise from the middle of nowhere to becoming a successful US politician and the first Jewish Secretary of Agriculture. Glickman is convinced the toxicity seen in our current political culture and public discourse can be mitigated by the principles that have guided his life; a strong sense of humor, respect and civility for those who have different points of view and a belief system founded on the Golden Rule. TICKETS: Member: $12 • Guest: $15 For Short Story Lovers! 1:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL In conversation with Amy Kaplan, Librarian, Katz JCC Board Member and Past JCC President Corie Adjmi Life and Other Shortcomings - IN PERSON Enjoy linked short stories that take us from New Orleans to New York City to Madrid, and from 1970 to the present day. Through each character’s intimate journey, specific truths are revealed about what it means to be a woman‚ in a relationship with another person, in a particular culture and era‚ and how these conditions ultimately affect her relationship with herself. Jen Spyra Big Time - IN PERSON In this uproarious, addictive short story collection debut, Spyra takes a culture that seems almost beyond parody and holds it up to a funhouse mirror, immersing the reader in a world of prehistoric influencers, woodland creatures plagued by millennial neuroses, and an all-out birthday bash determined to be the most lavish celebration of all time, by any means necessary. TICKETS: Member: $12 • Guest: $15

Wednesday 10November Heather Cabot 8:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL The New Chardonnay: The Unlikely Story of How Marijuana Went Mainstream In conversation with Laurel Freedman, Marketing Director, Pollution Studios Sponsored by Resintech/The Gottlieb Families Money, politics, social justice, sex, and Shabbat dinner are all on the menu as pot sheds its stoner image. The story of an astonishing rebranding, The New Chardonnay is the Moneyball of marijuana. This deeply reported narrative explores how the “Devil’s lettuce” emerged to become a luxury product fueling a $22 billion US market, all while remaining federally illegal. The book takes readers into the Wild West of weed with four pioneers racing to cash in on cannabis. TICKETS: Member: $20 • Guest: $25 11Thursday November Jake Tapper 10:00 am • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL The Devil May Dance In conversation with Marianne Aleardi, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, SJ Magazine Sponsored by The Heart House Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation’s capital can operate. But while they long to settle into the comforts of home, Attorney General Robert Kennedy has other plans. He needs them to look into a potential threat not only to the presidency, but to the security of the United States. TICKETS: M ember: $30 (includes one copy of book) Guest: $36 (includes one copy of book) Continental Breakfast included (in person only).

11Thursday November Luncheon and World War II Fiction Panel 12:15 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL In conversation with Marcy Dash Friedman, Owner, Dashing Designs and Katz JCC President Sponsored by Dashing Designs Pam Jenoff The Woman with the Blue Star - VIRTUAL Sadie Gault is 18 and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. While on an errand in the market, Ella catches a glimpse of something moving beneath a grate in the street. Upon closer inspection, she realizes it’s Sadie hiding. Ella begins to aid Sadie and the two become close, but as the dangers of the war worsen, their lives are set on a collision course that will test them in the face of overwhelming odds. Alan Hlad Churchill’s Secret Messenger - IN PERSON Incorporating many real historical events and people from WWII, this enthralling novel follows Rose Teasdale, a young British woman recruited from Churchill’s typing pool to become an undercover spy in Nazi-occupied France, and Lazare Aron, a Jewish French Resistance fighter. Churchill’s Secret Messenger is a stirring epic spanning the entire war, as an ordinary woman and man with extraordinary courage fight for what they love and know is right. Jane Healey The Secret Stealers - IN PERSON Anna Cavanaugh goes undercover as a spy in the French Resistance to help steal critical intelligence that could ultimately turn the tide of the war. Dispatched behind enemy lines and in constant danger, Anna is filled with adrenaline, passion, and fear. She’s driven to make a difference for her country and herself. Whatever the risk, she’s willing to take it to help liberate France from the shadows of occupation and to free herself from the shadows of her former life. TICKETS: Member: $30 • Guest: $36 ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Attending Virtually? Pick up your boxed lunch from the J at 11 am.

11Thursday November Join us at Double Nickel Brewing Company in Pennsauken for an evening of snacks, beer and SPORTS! Brett Axler 7:30 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL Brett will attend VIRTUALLY A Theatre Geek’s Guide to Disney, Google, and the NFL An in-depth guide for current college students and recent graduates looking to land the big gigs. A Theatre Geek’s guide to Disney, Google, and the NFL, by South Jersey native, Brett Axler, provides the steps and lessons to land the dream job. For new graduates ready to make their mark on the world, this book shows the importance of professional networking and the incredible impact it can have. Dan Grunfeld 8:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL Dan will attend VIRTUALLY By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, A Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream Sponsored by Virtua Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation A multi-generational family epic detailing history’s only known journey from Auschwitz to the NBA. A young boy, Ernie Grunfeld, escaped to America, was bullied as he struggled to learn English and cope with family tragedy, went on to win an Olympic gold medal and reach previously unimaginable heights as an NBA player and executive. In By the Grace of the Game, his son, once a basketball standout himself at Stanford University, shares the remarkable story of his family. TICKETS: Member: $15 • Guest: $20 First beer is on us! Please note, this event will be held on the brewery’s second floor and there is no elevator available.

Friday 12November Annelise Heinz 10:00 am • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL Anneleise will attend VIRTUALLY Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture Sponsored by Davis Enterprises Join Bernadette Hennessy May, Owner of Game Friendzy for an in person only “Play and Nosh.” Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture illustrates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between games have fostered distinct social cultures in the United States. This mass-produced game crossed the Pacific, creating waves of popularity over the twentieth century, particularly in Jewish American women’s culture. As it traveled from China to the United States and caught on with Hollywood starlets, high society, middle-class housewives, and immigrants alike, mahjong became a quintessentially American game. TICKETS: Member: $20 • Guest: $25 Includes Kosher Chinese lunch Attending Virtually? Pick up your boxed lunch from the J at 11:30 am. 13Saturday November NY/NY Dueling Pianos 8:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL Sponsored by Platt Memorial Chapels Get ready for a high-octane fiesta that’s part rock show, part comedy show and all sorts of craziness rolled into one big outrageous party. The audience will become part of the show in a request-driven sing-along, dance-along, thump-the-tables-along extravaganza! TICKETS: Member: $35 • Guest: $45

14Sunday November DNA Fiction Panel 11:00 am • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL In conversation with Minna Siegel, Librarian, Festival Chair Jacqueline Friedland He Gets That From Me - IN PERSON A young Jewish woman serves as a surrogate mother. After delivering twins and handing them off to the Rigsdales, she can’t fathom why, ten years after the fact, the fertility clinic is calling her to ask for a follow-up DNA test. Alison Hammer Little Pieces of Me - IN PERSON When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. But as she digs deeper into her mother’s past and her own feelings of being the odd child out growing up, Paige begins to question everything she thought she knew. TICKETS: Member: $12 • Guest: $15 Laraine Newman 1:00 pm • IN PERSON and VIRTUAL May You Live in Interesting Times: A Memoir Sponsored by Fox Rothschild LLP Laraine Newman’s life and experiences seem to have been on the forefront of every pop culture shift in America. May You Live In Interesting Times, Laraine Newman’s audiobook, takes us from the British invasion and the music scene in Los Angeles to the beginning of The Comedy Store, to the forming of The Groundlings, to the start of Saturday Night Live, to the rising prominence of animation. TICKETS: Member: $20 • Guest: $25

Sponsors aBSpe A Special Thank You to our Sponsors for their Generous and Continued Support! Healthcare PATRON OF THE ARTS In-Kind Quality BENEFACTOR Strategies PLATT Memorial Chapels, Inc. PRODUCERS Valerie & David Gladfelter Endowment Fund of the JCF, Inc. MEDIA SCHOLARS Associates In Hearing HealthCare Safety Bus Service Hutchinson Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Susan Bass Levin and Family Natalie & Dr. Warren Werbitt Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP Virtua Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Ravitz Family ShopRite/Ravitz Family Foundation Alex & Jocelyn Price SCRIBES Bart Greenspan & Family Ricci Tyrrell Johnson & Grey, PLLC Goodfriend Family Endowment Fund Miriam & Stan Meltzer Miller Family Foundation

Committee EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Festival Chair Festival Manager Minna Siegel Shonnie Lebovitz Festival Vice Chairs Volunteer Chairs Creative Arts Chairs Roberta Abramowitz Judi Keller Aimee Levin Ellen Spitz Janet Simons Sharon Weingart Community Liaisons Community Co-Chairs Hospitality Chair Barbara Flacker Lois Bromberg* Roz Wynne Laura Gottlieb* Sharon Green* Carolyn Jacobs Logistics Co-Chairs Book Selection Chair Amy Blackstone* Ad Hoc Irene Afek Terri Oppenheimer Steve Erhlich Book Store Chair Marketing Distribution Chair Technology Chair Denise Weinberg Yvonne Brand Heather Tomar JCC STAFF JCC President JCC Assistant Director Art Gallery Coordinator Marcy Dash Friedman Director of Fundraising & Development Sharon Siegel JCC Executive Director Oded Kraus Brian M. Adler Adult & Inclusion Program JCC Chief Financial Officer Associate Director, Adult & Associate / 60+ Adult Advocate Mitchell Medoff Inclusion Department Robin Lazarow JCC Chief Program Officer Nina Staiman JCC Marketing Director Beth Segal Program Associates Stephanie Dworkin Leeyat Amar JCC Event Planner Matt Lever Mackenzie DiVite FESTIVAL COMMITTEE Debby Baratz Andrea Ehrlich Amy Kaplan* Andrea Stomel                          Susan Baskies Deenie Ettenson Barney Kaplan Marcia Tomar Donna Bell* Jodi Kaufman-Cooper* Shelly Weiner Janet Berson Joan Feinberg Florence Klein Stephanie Welder Helene Blumenfeld Gloria Fischel-Gilbert Audrey Kleinman Stephanie Whitson Shelly Brenner Marcy Dash Friedman Judy Kratchman David Wynne Marcia Brown Phyllis Rothman* Sherrie Cohen Vivian Friedman *Past Festival Chair Margery Dannenbaum Leslie Garonzik-Katz* Gail Shapiro Phylis Stier Janet  Simons Barbara Goodfriend

Patron Perks Patron Tickets support the Festival! Your generosity benefits the community while sustaining cultural events. Enjoy exclusive receptions and priority seating while making a difference. PLATINUM JCC Member: 1 ticket for $360, 2 for $650 Guest: 1 ticket for $430, 2 for $760 • October 11 - Pre-event reception with Gary Ginsberg PLUS one copy of his book, First Friends: The Powerful Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents • November 4 - Pre-event reception with author, Michael Bar Zohar • November 6 - Reception following performance by Low Cut Connie • November 11 - Includes “World War II Fiction Panel” luncheon (separate registration required) • November 13 - Reception following performance by NY/NY Dueling Pianos • November 14 - Meet and greet with author and Saturday Night Live Alum, Laraine Newman, following her presentation (COVID-19 vaccine documentation required to attend) • Copy of Jake Tapper’s book, The Devil May Dance • Copy of Pam Jenoff’s book, The Woman with the Blue Star • Invitation to Patron Reception(s) at additional author events during 2021-2022 Festival season GOLD JCC Member: 1 ticket for $280, 2 for $515 Guest: 1 ticket for $310, 2 for $560 • October 11 - Pre-event reception with Gary Ginsberg PLUS one copy of his book, First Friends: The Powerful Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents • November 4 - Pre-event reception with author, Michael Bar Zohar • November 6 - Reception following performance by Low Cut Connie • November 11 - Includes “World War II Fiction Panel” luncheon for reduced fee of $18 (separate registration required) • November 14 - Meet and greet with author and Saturday Night Live Alum, Laraine Newman, following her presentation (COVID-19 vaccine documentation required to attend) • Copy of Jake Tapper’s book, The Devil May Dance • Invitation to Patron Reception(s) at additional author events during 2021-2022 Festival season SERIES JCC Member: 1 ticket for $200, 2 for $268 SUBSCRIBER Guest: 1 ticket for $244, 2 for $321 • Copy of Jake Tapper’s book, The Devil May Dance Virtual Viewing Details are emailed to ticket Stay Connected with the holders 24 HOURS and 1 HOUR prior to each event Katz JCC and the Festival! All ticket prices are per household. A service fee applies to all sales. You’ll receive an email with a code to unlock JCC member pricing for all events!

NON-PROFIT ORG. US POSTAGE PAID PERMIT 403 BELLMAWR NJ Festival Bookstore The Festival book store will be open 30 minutes before, during and 30 minutes after each in-person event. With special thanks to Naomi Firestone-Teeter, Suzanne Swift, Ariel Landow and the National Jewish Book Council We express our thanks to the National JCC Literary Consortium. Calendar of Events IP IN PERSON V VIRTUAL FESTIVAL PREVIEW EVENTS 9NOV IP V 10:00 am Leah Garrett V 7:00 pm H eather Dune Macadam 3OCT V 8:00 pm David Rubenstein 11OCT IP V 8:00 pm Gary Ginsberg 10NOV IP V 10:00 am D an Glickman 13OCT V 8:00 pm M indy Weisel IP V 1:00 pm Corie Adjmi 20OCT V 12:30 pm David Grossman Jen Spyra THE FESTIVAL BEGINS! IP V 8:00 pm Heather Cabot 4NOV IP V 1:00 pm Sasha Issenberg 11NOV IP V 10:00 am Jake Tapper IP V 8:00 pm Michael Bar Zohar IP V 12:15 pm Pam Jenoff 5NOV V 10:00 am Rachel Beanland Jane Healey Molly Golubcow Alan Hlad 6NOV Low Cut Connie IP V 7:30 pm Brett Axler IP V 8:00 pm Concert 8:00 pm Dan Grunfeld 7NOV V 9:00 am Ann D. Koffsky 12NOV IP V 11:00 am R obert Lefkowitz, MD IP V Annelise Heinz IP V 1:00 pm Mitchell James Kaplan 13NOV V 8:00 pm Nick Davis IP V 8:00 pm D ueling Pianos Leslie Epstein 14NOV IP V 11:00 am Jacqueline Friedland Alison Hammer IP V L araine Newman 8NOV IP V 10:00 am Jake Cohen All programs are subject to change or V 1:00 pm Meryl Ain cancellation without notice. Every effort will be Anne Sebba made to provide appropriate replacement. IP 6:30 pm Art Gallery Reception Masks are required at all Festival events, IP V 8:00 pm A nnabelle Gurwitch regardless of vaccination status, except while eating or drinking.