The next TSS book club selection is

Crossing the Borders of Time,
by Leslie Maitland

We’ll be meeting at the home of Cantor Sussman.

7:15 p.m. on Thursday, August 28th.

Please RSVP to Marcia Berkow at mhberkow@gmail.com or
Margie Hertz <mhertz@ptd.net

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About the book:
Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees, the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before the Germans sealed its harbors. Then, barred from entering the United States, they lived in Cuba for almost two years before emigrating to New York. This sweeping account of one family’s escape from the turmoil of war-torn Europe hangs upon the intimate and deeply personal story of Maitland’s mother’s passionate romance with a Catholic Frenchman. Separated by war and her family’s disapproval, the young lovers-Janine and Roland-lose each other for fifty years. It is a testimony to both Maitland’s investigative skills and her devotion to her mother that she successfully traced the lost Roland and was able to reunite him with Janine. Unlike so many stories of love during wartime, theirs has a happy ending.

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Always looking for a good book:
Since this is a book group, all of our voices should be heard. Please bring the name of Jewish themed book you would like our group to read, along with a short synopsis.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to our Tools for School collection! The TSS congregation donated approximately $1200, as well as numerous supplies, for the students at Cleveland Elementary School. This is huge! Thank you to everyone who participated in this important social justice project! And thanks to Cheryl Shadick and Marcia Berkow for coordinating!

As a result of your generosity, Cheryl and Marcia went on a shoppping spree, and filled numerous shopping carts with notebooks, markers, crayons, colored pencils, hand sanitizers, pencil boxes , rulers, glue sticks and back packs. Donna Iorio’s mother’s knitting group sent lovely back packs filled with supplies as well!

Supplies were delivered by a truck filled to overflowing, prior to the start of the school year. The teachers and principal were ecstatic and so grateful! More than 90% of the students in this school are from families in need, so your donations are extraordinarily important.