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Temple Reads Book Club
03/18/12 7:00PM - 9:30PM
Temple Reads is an informal group of readers that meets 4-6 times a year after reading, or listening to audio CD, a book with a Jewish theme or author. We have read contemporary thrillers, biographies, historical fiction, as well as non-fiction memoirs. We welcome book suggestions. Best titles are those that have been enjoyed by others and which have multiple copies available in the library system.
New members are always welcome.
Temple Reads selection for March 18, 2012
The Trials of Zion by Alan Dershowitz
A shocking act of terror brings the Middle East to the point of explosion. As the resulting political conflict threatens to erupt, a young Jewish-American lawyer joins the defense team of an arrested but possibly innocent Palestinian. Soon the lawyer's father, a famed criminal attorney, must win the Palestinian's case or risk losing his daughter forever. To do so, he must take into account the tormented history of the Holy Land from every possible angle. THE TRIALS OF ZION combines the tension of the greatest courtroom dramas with the action of a fast-moving thriller, all set against the colorful backdrop of one of the most complex cultural settings in the world. Filled with memorable characters, this novel offers readers not only compelling suspense, but a panoramic view of the history of a beloved and bitterly contested land, and a sharply controversial perspective on the sources of--and the possible solutions to--the world's longest and most crucial international crisis.
"A thought-provoking thriller set in two of the world's most gripping arenas of conflict, the Middle East and the courtroom."
-Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought, and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
"As in all his essays, in his novel also, Alan Dershowitz demonstrates his great love for Israel as well as his inspired passion for Jewish memory, justice, and storytelling."
-Elie Wiesel
Date: March 18, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Location: the Leshen/Faigel house.