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Synagogue Leadership Initiative is launching an exciting new collaborative initiative: One Book, One Community. Join us and be part of it. It’s free! One Book, One Community is designed to enhance Jewish learning and encourage participation throughout northern New Jersey when we read one book together! 

The initial book choice, My Father’s Paradise, by award-winning journalist, Ariel Sabar, tells the story of his father, Yona, who emigrated with his family from the Kurdish region of Iraq in the late 1940s. It weaves together the story of the Sabar family’s journey, recapturing their history in the waning years of Jewish life in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Set in a region of the world that makes headlines daily for sectarian violence, My Father’s Paradise is a stunning tale of hope and redemption.

Synagogues, agencies, and other Jewish communal organizations will join together in shared conversations and events centered around one selected book and its themes. Each group can use the book in its own way…as a springboard for conversation, study, and celebration, not only of the book but of the issues, the culture, and the ideas it raises.

The program is free and comes with resources and ideas from SLI. There will be an exciting community culminating event with Ariel and Yona Sabar on Thursday, March 29th, at 7:00 p.m. The event will be held at Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck.

This is an opportunity for your institution to connect with the greater northern New Jersey Jewish community.

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Be on the same page. Be part of One Book, One Community.