Sisterhood
CBI Sisterhood aka CBI Women's Group is dedicated to Jewish education and community building. We support our community with tzedekah, chesed and learning activities. We design programs to feature our members' rich experiences, expertise and talents. We also have ongoing interest groups, which currently include a book club and a Knitter-Weavers' group.
The energy and interests of the members drive the year's programming – please join us and bring your ideas. Planning meetings are open to all members. Our membership includes women from the entire Berkeley Jewish community.
For more information and to sign up to receive information about our activities, please contact:
Violette Sibony (membership)
vhsibony@sbcglobal.net; (925) 947-0771
or
Ruth Wittman (communications)
rhwitt72@aol.com ; (510) 525-9530
- Book Club:
Our next meeting is scheduled for Sunday, November 14 at 10:30 am in the CBI library to discuss Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson, which will be available in the CBI office. Please sign out on the line that matches the copy number (found on the spine of the book). - Stitches (AKA Knitter-Weavers)
Please contact Rose Ginsburg at (510) 525-3906
All women and men are invited to a Women’s Group event:
A reading by our own, special Bella Barany, ashet chayil,
from her writings about her childhood in Holland
during the Second World War.
Those of you who have heard Bella at a shul Kiddush
reading her poem about the arrival of U.S. soldiers in Amsterdam
will know that you should NOT miss this event.
Sunday November 21, 10am-noon
At the home of the Wulf family,
1016 Cragmont Ave
(between Euclid and the final block of Santa Barbara) ********************
All women and men are invited to join the Beth Israel Sisterhood for:
"We Are Going to Pick Potatoes":
Norway and the Holocaust, the Untold Story
A talk and reading by Irene Levin Berman
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 8 PM
at the home of the Budnitz family, 734 The Alameda, Berkeley, 94702
Kosher Norwegian refreshments will be served following the discussion.
"We are going to pick potatoes." That's what the family housekeeper told four-year-old Irene as they set off on their escape From German-occupied Norway in 1942. Berman was one of 1,200 Norwegian Jews who escaped to Sweden; the almost 800 Jews who remained were deported and all but about 30 perished. What happened to the Jews of Norway is a largely unknown chapter in World War II history. Berman's book chronicles the lives of Norwegian Jews from the onset of immigration in the mid-nineteenth century until the present, with intimate details about her own family and her memories of life in Norway during and after the War. The book also explores her strong dual identity as a Norwegian and a Jew and her journey of identification as a holocaust survivor. Irene Levin Berman has lived in the United States since she moved here as a young bride. She is a professional translator of Scandinavian languages having translated 6 of Henrik Ibsen’s plays into English. "We Are Going to Pick Potatoes" was written in Norwegian and first published in Norway in 2008 and later translated into English for publication in the United States. The author also has a website. http://www.norwayandtheholocaust.com/
