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Guildford Jewish Community

Community Education

 

October-December - Teaching Block 13, University of Surrey

Jewish Renewal

This is a special course designed for students living on campus and others in the Guildford area who want to know more about Judaism. This semester will focus on a joint course of history and practice. The course is suitable for Jewish students of all levels, those in mixed relationships (Jewish and not Jewish) and others who want to learn more about Judaism, its historic roots, its customs and laws.

 

Phone Alex Goldberg, UNIS Jewish Chaplain for more details on 07939 594212

Two members of the Guildford Jewish Community, Irene Black and Jacquelynn Luben will be talking about the books they have recently brought out at a ‘Meet the Author’ event at Guildford Synagogue on Sunday, 20th November.  Both Irene and Jacquelynn have been active members of the Guildford Jewish Community for many years, and both serve on the committee.  Between them, they have, in the past, been involved in the cheder, editing the newsletter, and many social functions.

 

In Irene’s novel, The Moon’s Complexion,, the author has used her knowledge of the countries portrayed to produce a work of literary fiction, played out in Southern India, Sri Lanka and England during the early and mid-1990s.  She describes it as a romantic thriller, but, with its Indian hero and half-Jewish heroine, it is also an exploration of prejudice and preconceptions amidst adverse circumstances. Can love across two cultures survive a series of traumatic events, or will it fall victim to misunderstanding, mistrust and lies?

 

Irene Black has been a psychologist and a teacher and has lived and worked in the USA, Australia and India. During 2005, she has been engaged in postgraduate degree studies on South Indian temple architecture.  She has won a number of national and international prizes for short stories, poetry and articles, including the 2003 National Association of Writers’ Groups Annual Best Short Story award.  The Moon’s Complexion is her first novel.

 

Jacquelynn Luben’s novella, A Bottle of Plonk, follows the travels of a bottle of wine, which is passed from one character to another. Rejected as being cheap, smuggled from  the home of an alcoholic, donated to a tombola, it somehow manages to remain unconsumed throughout the book. In the course of its journey, it leads us through a series of events, in which a variety of situations and emotions are depicted in the lives of diverse characters, bringing tears and laughter in their wake.

 

Jacquelynn Luben, has published two successful non-fiction books and many articles, but is equally at home with fiction, having written numerous short stories.  Coming late into further education, she gained a degree from Surrey University in 2002, with a dissertation on the Harry Potter series.

 

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Meet The Authors—20th Nov -  16.00 - Guildford - Synagogue