And for those who want to read the book in advance, save 30% on Becoming Elijah. Use code ELIJAH at checkout. Limited time only!

Join Hadassah Magazine on Thursday, March 21 at 7 PM ET for a discussion with award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun on Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream, her new biography about Hadassah’s pioneering founder.

At a time of crisis and existential threat for Israel, Klagsbrun, author of several books, including the best-selling 2017 biography Lioness: Golda Meir and the State of Israel, will explore Szold’s belief in practical, pragmatic Zionism as she reveals the person behind the legend.

Considered one of the most important figures in American Jewish history, Szold helped build the infrastructure for Israel’s hospital system, rescued thousands of European children through Youth Aliyah and, through Hadassah, forever changed what it means for hundreds of thousands of women to belong in Jewish America. A recording of the event will be available for those who register. Zoom captioning will be provided. Free and open to all.

For those who want to order the book in advance of the event, save 25% off!
Just use code SZOLD at checkout.

Join Jewish Lives and Park Avenue Synagogue for a FREE in-person or online discussion with author Rachel Shteir about the life and legacy of Betty Friedan.

Betty Friedan, author, activist, and champion for women’s rights, was both a powerful and polarizing figure. As a journalist covering racism, sexism and antisemitism, and later as the author of the groundbreaking work The Feminine Mystique and cofounder of the National Organization of Women (NOW), Friedan fought for important protections for women. Author Rachel Shteir will share how Friedan’s Judaism was essential to her feminism, and how her work leaves a lasting legacy.

Rachel Shteir is an award-winning essayist, writer, and critic, and is head of the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Program at the Theatre School at DePaul University. She is the author of Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show, Gypsy: The Art of the Tease, and The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting.  

This program is in partnership with Park Avenue Synagogue.

Save 25% on Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter. Use code FRIEDAN at checkout.

As we commemorate Israel's 75th anniversary of statehood, join us on Tuesday, April 25 at 7:00 pm online or in person (87th street, NYC) as we explore the life and legacy of Theodor Herzl. 

How did Theodor Herzl, a cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew, become the leader of the Zionist movement? With his often-conflicting personas (artist and a statesman, rationalist and an aesthete, and stern moralist who also possessed deep, and at times dark, passions), why did scores of thousands of Jews, many of them from traditional, observant backgrounds, embrace Herzl as their leader? Author and historian Derek Penslar draws on Herzl’s vast body of personal and political writing to explore Herzl’s path to Zionist leader and how his short life created his enduring legacy.  

Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University. His previous books include Jews and the Military: A History and Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe.

This program is in partnership with Park Avenue Synagogue and Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning

Buy Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader and save 30%! Just use code HERZL at checkout.