Kol Nashim
Kol Nashim (KN) means the Voice of Women. We add our voices and views as women in the TI community, providing learning opportunities about Jewish culture and hosting social events where you can meet and get to know other TI and KN members. Ongoing activities include:
- Monthly Kol Nashim Book Club meetings
- Annual Game Night (with Gevarim)
- Speaker series
- Cooking demonstrations, museum trips, and more!
Any of our Board members would love to talk with you about programs you'd like to see at TI, or just to schmooze. We know you have much to say and do as women, and that’s really it in a nutshell – adding your voice and your ideas to ours enhances TI.
Kol Nashim Board
Louise Kelley, President
Sharon Brown
Esther Herman
Anita Kramer
Adele Natter
Margie Odle
Barbara Milton
Debbie Pomerance
Pearl Schainker
Varda Fink
Kol Nashim Book Club
Meetings are open to anyone, including those who have not finished or started the book. To receive timely reminders and the Zoom link, contact Janice Mehler (info in the TI directory).
Questions? Contact Jessica Weissman.
Upcoming 2024-2025 Reads:
Christ Stopped at Eboli
by Carlo Levi (translated from Italian (Originally published in 1947, 268 pages)
Levi spent a year as an antifascist political prisoner in a town in Southern Italy. This is his account of people who lived as their ancestors had for centuries. A classic and does have Jewish content despite the name.
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
by Oren Kessler (2023, 230 pages plus notes and such)
A nearly-forgotten uprising by Palestinians that lasted three years and radicalized both Jewish and Arab communities.
Foreign bodies: pandemics, vaccines, and the health of nations
by Simon Schama (2023, 400 pages or so). Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Central character is Jewish.
The Amen effect: ancient wisdom to mend our broken hearts and world
by Sharon Brous (2024, 218 pages)
An inspiring book about community and connection, and the many vehicles by which they come. Draws on Jewish wisdom and contemporary social science.
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
by Adam Kirsch (139 pages, 2024)
Clear exposition of a fairly new way of thinking about nations built on replacing indigenous people and cultures. Directly currently apt.
The Incorruptibles
by Dan Slater (2024, 300 pages plus notes and illustrations)
A deep dive into the early 1900s & Jewish role in crime in NYC. Some of it was shocking and upended some aspects of the more warm and rosy picture of other books,
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