KolNefesh
Dec 4, 20182 min
The schedule for the weekend:
Friday Dec 21: Community Kabbalat Shabbat and potluck dinner with Ilana, 6.30pm
Shabbat Dec 22: Ilana will give the davar Torah in shul.
Motzei Shabbat (Saturday night) Dec 22: Book reading/signing at the Leonard Sainer Centre (our usual home for services). Doors 6.30pm, reading 7–8pm, signing 8–9pm. Entrance fee: £5 (redeemable against book purchase). Book on Eventbrite, here.
Ilana Kurshan has translated books of Jewish interest by Ruth Calderon, Benjamin Lau, and Micah Goodman, as well as novels, short stories, and children’s picture books. Her book Why Is This Night Different From Other Nights was published by Schocken in 2005. She is a regular contributor to Lilith Magazine, where she is the Book Reviews Editor, and her writing has appeared in The Forward, The World Jewish Digest, Hadassah, Nashim, Zeek, Kveller, and Tablet. Ilana is a graduate of Harvard University (BA, summa cum laude, History of Science) and Cambridge University (M.Phil, English literature). She lives in Jerusalem with her husband and four children.
For more about Ilana please see her website, here.