WL Reads

[This Program is scheduled on Eastern Time Zone]

Please join us to our next WL Reads selection, “The Choice” by Maggie Anton.

A powerful love story with a purpose: to challenge 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 and Marilyn, communist scares and polio vaccines, postwar Jewish migration to Israel and America. When journalist Hannah Eisin interviews Rabbi Nathan Mandel, a controversial Talmud professor, she persuades him to teach her the mysteries of the text forbidden to women though it might cost him his job if discovered. Secret meetings and lively discussions bring the two to the edge of a line neither dares to cross, testing their relationships with Judaism and each other.

Zoom link will be sent upon registering.

Registration is open to WL members (in the USA & Canada), you must log in (https://www.wlcjmembers.org/member_login.php) to register for this program. If you need assistance, please contact the office (405) 870-1260.

Karen Block
WL Reads Chair
kblock@wlcj.org