Join our Beth Am community for a new program entitled, “Reading with the Rabbi.” In the spirit of a Book Club, we will read 3 books over the course of the year and come together each time for a thought provoking book discussion with Rabbi Kornberg.

Book 1: Uncomfortable Conversations With A Jew, by Emmanuel Acho & Noa Tishby 

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism that connects the dots between the tropes and hatred of the past to our current complicated moment.

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
by Emmanuel Acho & Noa Tishby

Published: April 30, 2024 | Pages: 320

Book Summary:  For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. They go there. They cover Jews and money. Jews and power. Jews and privilege. Jews and white privilege. The Black and Jewish struggle. Emmanuel asks, Did Jews kill Jesus? To which Noa responds, “Why are Jewish people history’s favorite scapegoat?” They unpack Judaism itself: Is it a religion, culture, a peoplehood, or a race? And: Are you antisemitic if you’re anti-Zionist?

The questions—and answers—might make you squirm, but together, they explain the tropes, stereotypes, and catalysts of antisemitism in America today.

The topics are complicated and Acho and Tishby bring vastly different perspectives. Tishby is an outspoken Israeli American. Acho is a mild-mannered son of a Nigerian American pastor. But they share a superpower: an uncanny ability to make complicated ideas easy to understand so anyone can follow the straight line from the past to our immediate moment—and then see around corners. Acho and Tishby are united by the core belief that hatred toward one group is never isolated: if you see the smoke of bigotry in one place, expect that we will all be in the fire.

Informative and accessible, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew has a unique structure: Acho asks questions and Tishby answers them with deeply personal, historical, and political responses. This book will enable anyone to explain—and identify—what Jewish hatred looks like. It is a much-needed lexicon for this fraught moment in Jewish history. As Acho says, “Proximity breeds care and distance breeds fear.”

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Thank you for registering for the Reading with the Rabbi: An Uncomforaatble Conversation withe a Jew with Rabbi Kornberg. A confirmation email with be sent to you with all the details. If you have any questions, or you do not receive the email, please contact Bonnie Cohen at 858.481.8454 or bonnie@betham.com.

See you on: Sunday, December 8th at 10:30 AM

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