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Authors, Talks & Culture
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Will Israel Survive as a Jewish Democracy? |
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
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Zionism is one of the most successful national liberation movements in history. Its creation, Israel, is today a thriving country, with a robust economy, a strong military and a vibrant culture. But it is beset by challenges to its existence. Some are external: The desire of Iran's leaders to see it disappear is one. But some are internal: Israel faces unresolved challenges of national identity, and of occupation.
The question before us is this: What kind of country will Israel be in the coming decades? And what will this country's relationship be with the United States, its most important benefactor, and with American Jews, who represent the backbone of its support?
Join us for a provocative discussion moderated by Jake Tapper, CNN's chief Washington correspondent and anchor of "The Lead," and featuring Ari Shavit, Israel's leading columnist and television commentator, and author of the forthcoming book My Promised Land; and Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic.
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Tickets are $15 and each total transaction (if bought by 2:00 pm when advance sales close on the day of the event) includes one 1-year subscription to The Atlantic. Ticket purchases made when doors open for the event at 6:00 pm will be $15 and will not include the magazine subscription.
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Naomi Schaefer Riley |
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
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7:00 PM
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In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families is a sign of openness and tolerance among religious communities.
However, what is good for society as a whole often proves difficult for individual families. As Riley demonstrates in ‘Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage Is Transforming America, interfaith couples are less happy than others and certain combinations of religions are more likely to lead to divorce.
Interviews with married and once-married couples, clergy, and sociologists reveal that many interfaith couples marry without much consideration of the fundamental spiritual and practical issues that divide them. Couples tend to marry in their twenties and thirties, when romantic ideals are high and as a result, deeply held religious differences are overlooked.
Those differences can pose a challenge when individuals return to their faith as they grow older, have children, and experience major life changes.
In conversation with Rabbi Shira Stutman, Sixth & I’s Director of Jewish Programming. |
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Tickets are $10 or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($25). Tickets can be purchased online or by calling TicketFly (877.987.6487). There is a $1.50 fee per ticket for phone orders. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
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Jim Gaffigan |
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Tuesday, June 04, 2013
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7:00 PM
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Jim Gaffigan never imagined he would have kids. Though he grew up in a large Irish-Catholic family, Jim was satisfied with the nomadic, nocturnal life of a standup comedian, and was content to be "that weird uncle who lives in an apartment by himself in New York that everyone in the family speculates about."
But all that changed when he found out his wife, Jeannie, "is someone who gets pregnant looking at babies."
Five kids later, the comedian offers hilarious observations on family life and the mistakes and victories of his life as a dad in Dad Is Fat. The book is full of funny takes on everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to changing diapers in the middle of the night ("like The Hurt Locker but much more dangerous") to bedtime (aka "Negotiating with Terrorists").
Program format: 15 minute talk by Jim Gaffigan and 45 minutes of audience Q&A, followed by a book signing |
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Tickets are $30 and include 1 copy of the book. Tickets can be purchased online or by calling TicketFly (877.987.6487). There is a $1.50 fee per ticket for phone orders. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
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Marc Maron |
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
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7:00 PM
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From standup to television to his popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, Maron is a disarmingly honest and intensely smart comic who finds wisdom in the strangest places.
Attempting Normal is Maron’s journey through the wilderness of his own mind, a collection of painfully funny stories about hope and hopelessness, failing, flailing, and finding a way.
Parent-scarred and angst-filled, Maron dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral cats, and emotionally and financially annihilated by a divorce. He tried to heal his broken heart through minor-league hoarding, shoplifting from Whole Foods, and flying airplanes with his mind, but nothing seemed to work.
Attempting Normal is his story of the winding road from madness and failure to something like normal, the journey of a sympathetic screw-up who’s trying hard to do better without making a bigger mess. |
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The cost is $20 for 1 ticket, $36 for 1 book + 1 ticket, or $46 for 1 book + 2 tickets. For tickets, click the "Buy Tickets" button below. For the ticket+book options, click here. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
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Jeannette Walls |
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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7:00 PM
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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Glass Castle comes The Silver Star, a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world—a triumph of imagination and storytelling.
It is 1970 in a small town in California. Bean is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia where their uncle lives.
Bean soon discovers who her father was and why their mother left Virginia in the first place. When school starts, Bean easily makes friends but Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens to Liz.
Walls writes about triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love each other and the world, despite its flaws and injustices. |
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Tickets are $12 or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($26). Tickets can be purchased online or by calling TicketFly (877.987.6487). There is a $1.50 fee per ticket for phone orders. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
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Elissa Altman
In Conversation with Joe Yonan |
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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7:00 PM
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Elissa Altman writes PoorMansFeast.com, winner of the 2012 James Beard Award for Individual Food Blog. In her new book of the same name, Altman offers a story that marries wit to warmth, and flavor to passion. Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and food-fanatical father, Altman was trained early on that fancy is always best. After a childhood spent dining everywhere from Le Pavillion to La Grenouille, she devoted her life to all things gastronomical.
But love does strange things to people, and when Elissa met Susan — with parsimonious tendencies and a devotion to simple living — it would change Altman’s relationship with food, and the people who taught her about it, forever.
Including 27 recipes, Poor Man’s Feast is a tale of finding sustenance and peace in a world of excess and inauthenticity, and shows us how all our stories are inextricably bound up with what, and how, we feed ourselves and those we love.
In conversation with Joe Yonan, Food Editor of The Washington Post. |
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Tickets are $12 or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($27.50). Tickets can be purchased online or by calling TicketFly (877.987.6487). There is a $1.50 fee per ticket for phone orders. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
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The Metropolitan Revolution |
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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7:00 PM
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A revolution is stirring in America. In the face of federal gridlock, power in the United States is shifting away from Washington, and even state capitols, toward our major cities and metropolitan areas. These communities are taking on the big issues that Washington won’t, or can’t, solve.
In The Metropolitan Revolution, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley describe how this revolution is taking root across the country, from New York City, where efforts are underway to diversify the city’s vast economy; to Portland, which is starting to sell the “sustainability” solutions it has perfected to other cities around the world; to Houston, where a modern settlement house helps immigrants start climbing the employment ladder; to Denver and Los Angeles where leaders are breaking political barriers and building world-class metropolises; to Boston and Detroit, where Innovation Districts will hatch ideas to power these economies for the next century.
Gwen Ifill leads a discussion with Katz and Bradley about how The Metropolitan Revolution can reshape our economy and fix our broken political system.
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Tickets are $12 or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($30). Tickets can be purchased online or by calling TicketFly (877.987.6487). There is a $1.50 fee per ticket for phone orders. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
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Brad Thor |
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
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7:00 PM
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The #1 New York Times best-selling author has penned 12 thrillers featuring Navy SEAL turned covert counterterrorism operative, Scot Harvath. In his next release, Hidden Order, a string of high-profile kidnappings has Washington, D.C. in a frenzy. When the victims begin turning up dead, frenzy turns to panic. And when the ransom demand is finally made public, panic will turn to terror. The stakes have never been higher, nor the lines between good and evil so hard to discern.
Thor’s success with thrillers has made him a highly regarded resource for consultations on real-world terrorism. Innovative plots and extensive knowledge of intelligence, special operations, and terrorist communities got Thor recruited into the Department of Homeland Security’s “Red Cell” program, an elite group of writers and artists commissioned to brainstorm terrorist scenarios for our government. Thor is a fellow of the Alexandrian Defense Group. |
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Tickets are $14 or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($28). Tickets can be purchased online or by calling TicketFly (877.987.6487). There is a $1.50 fee per ticket for phone orders. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
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Dr. Oliver Sacks |
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
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Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. More commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness or injury. Hallucinations can be brought on by a simple fever or even the act of waking or falling asleep, when people have visions ranging from blobs of color to beautifully detailed faces or terrifying ogres. Those who are bereaved may receive comforting “visits” from the departed. In some conditions, hallucinations can lead to religious epiphanies or even the feeling of leaving one’s own body.
In Hallucinations, the bestselling book now out in paperback, Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.
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Marion Winik and Ophira Eisenberg |
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
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7:00 PM
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Summer lovin’ on the brain? Ellen McCarthy anchors the Washington Post Style section’s OnLove page, writing extensively about weddings, love and relationships. She’ll host a lively and honest conversation with Marion Winik and Ophira Eisenberg about the funny, bizarre and heartbreaking things that happen when funny Jewish women pursue love.
Winik, Baltimore Fishbowl columnist and NPR commentator, is the author of the recently released Highs in the Low 50s: How I Stumbled Through the Joys of Single Living, based on her “Bohemian Rhapsody” column at Baltimore Fishbowl and delves into her dating life as a once-widowed, once-divorced single mother.
Eisenberg, a standup comic and host of NPR’s “Ask Me Another” trivia program, is the author of the recently released Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy, a laugh out loud retelling of her somewhat promiscuous ride to finding her husband. |
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The cost is $12 for 1 ticket; $18 for 1 ticket + 1 Eisenberg book; $24 for 1 ticket + 1 Winik book; $38 for 1 ticket + 1 Eisenberg book + 1 Winik book. Tickets can be purchased online or by calling TicketFly (877.987.6487). There is a $1.50 fee per ticket for phone orders. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
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Daniel Silva |
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
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7:00 PM
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author is back with his much-anticipated 16th novel, The English Girl, which sends Silva’s recurring character, Gabriel Allon*, on another adventure.
In The English Girl, when Madeline Hart vanishes on the island of Corsica, Gabriel is thrust into a deadly game of shadows where nothing is what it seems—and where the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth.
Hart, a rising star in Britain’s governing party, is also a woman with a dark secret; she is the lover of the Prime Minister. Her kidnappers know of the affair and intend to make the British leader pay for his sins. Fearful of scandal that will destroy his career, the Prime Minister decides to handle the matter privately rather than involve the police.
Gabriel embarks on a desperate attempt to bring Hart home safely. His mission takes him from Marseilles to Provence—and, finally, to Moscow, where there is a long list of men who wish Gabriel dead.
*Gabriel was also hailed by President Bill Clinton as his “favorite fictional character. Book signing to follow |
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Tickets are $12 or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($28). Tickets can be purchased online or by calling TicketFly (877.987.6487). There is a $1.50 fee per ticket for phone orders. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
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