Do you love to read? Please join us for the Bet Torah Community Book Fair benefiting Kulanu on Sunday, April 14 from 9:00-12:30 and on Monday, April 15 from 8:30-12:30 in the Bet Torah Library. Books will be available for purchase via credit card and Apple pay on-site. We are partnering with Main Street Books and proceeds will benefit Kulanu. 

Gimel (3), Hey (5) will visit the Book Fair with their class, during Sunday Kulanu. Please send your child to Kulanu with a credit card. We are cash free! Nursery School families are welcome to shop on Monday before, during or after Nursery School. 

Check below for recommended reading lists from your clergy and senior staff! 

Volunteers needed. Click here to volunteer!

Please contact Ilana Perlman with any questions.

Suggested Books 2024

Rabbi Sacks
Time's Echo by Jeremy Eichler
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar
If All The Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

Gina Fass
All Other Nights by Dara Horn
The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander

Library Committee
Israel, A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
Devotion: A Memoir by Dani Shapiro (or any other of her books!)
We Used to Dance by Debbie Chein Morris, (A Bet Torah Congregant)
Anti-Semitism: Here and Now by Deborah Lipstadt
(Cookbook) Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Berkenau Survivors
(Cookbook) Shuk: from market to table the heart of Israeli home cooking by Einat Admony & Janna Gur
Morality by Lord by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Living a Joyous Life: The True Spirit of Jewish Practice by Yaaria Eshet
(Children’s Book) Afikomen by Tziporah Cohen
(Children’s Book) Measuring a Year: A Rosh Hashanah Story by Linda Elovitz Marshall

Bet Torah’s Great Jewish Book Club, Recommended by Ed Feinberg
Bibi: My Story by Benjamin Netanyahu 
18 Days in October by Yuri Kaufman 
A Bintel Brief by Isaac Metzker

Israel Table
Dinosaur Goes to Israel, Diane Levin Rauchwerger 
Ella’s Trip to Israel, Vivian Newman  
Fast Asleep in a Little Village in Israel, Jennifer Macleod
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth, Noa Tishby 
My Second-Favorite Country: How American Jewish Children Think About Israel, Sivan Zakai (National Jewish Book Award 2023  for Education and Jewish Identity)

Bestsellers 
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store- James McBride 
The Little Liar - Mitch Albom 
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt