Oak Park Temple
B'nai Abraham Zion

1235 N. Harlem Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60302
(708) 386-3937

All new - the OPT online book store @ amazon.com

OPT now has TWO book groups. No reason why you can't attend BOTH!

Sisterhood Book Group - at the Temple

Previously read books:

• Fabulous Small Jews by Joseph Epstein
• The Reader by Bernard Schlink
• In the Image by Dara Horn
• 1185 Park Avenue by Anne Roiphe

Sunday Night Book Group - at Roberta's

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Previously read books:

• The Hope by Herman Wouk.
• The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Kenneth Seeskin
• Where God Was Born by Bruce Feiler
• Someone to Run With by David Grossman
• The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth
• The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz
• Wise Men and Their Tales : Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters by Elie Wiesel
• Real Jews: Secular Versus Ultra-Orthodox: The Struggle for Jewish Identity in Israel by Noah J. Efron, Noah Efron
• The Jews of Prime Time by David Zurawik
• Reading the Women of the Bible by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
• The New Rabbi by Stephen Fried
• Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Wrestling with Angels
What Genesis Teaches Us About Our Spiritual Identity, Sexuality and Personal Relationships by Naomi H. Rosenblatt, Joshua Horwitz (Contributor)
• With Roots in Heaven by Tirzah Firestone
• Any book about the history of Israel.
• A Letter in the Scroll : Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion by Jonathan Sacks
• The Woman Who Laughed at God by Johathan Kirsch
• Duties of the Soul : The Role of Commandments in Liberal Judaism by Niles Elliot Goldstein (Editor), Peter S. Knobel (Editor)
• God Knows by Joseph Heller
• God's Grace by Bernard Malamud
• Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir by Elizabeth Ehrlich
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg, Tina Pohlman (Editor)
• The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds by Jonathan Rosen
• The Source by James Mitchner
• The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
• Jew Vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman
• Generation J by Lisa Schiffman
• Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• Standing Again at Sinai : Judaism from a Feminist Perspective by Judith Plaskow 
• Gift of the Jews by Thomas Cahill
• Turbulent Souls : A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family by Stephen J. Dubner
• The Year Mom Got Religion: One Woman’s Midife Journey into Judaism….
• Nathan Englander’s For the Relief of Unbearable Urges.
• The Healer of Shattered Hearts: A Jewish View of God by David J. Wolpe
• Friday the Rabbi Slept Late and Conversations with Rabbi Small by Harry Kemelman
• Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliot Friedman 
• Portnoy's Complaint  and Goodbye Columbus by Phillip Roth 
• Finding God: Ten Jewish Responses by Rifat Sonsino and Daniel B. Syme
• The Hidden Face of God by Richard Elliot Friedman
• A Hole in the Heart of the World : The Jewish Experience in Eastern Europe After World War II by Jonathan Kaufman
• As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg
• Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment by J. J. Goldberg
• Genesis of Ethics by Burton L. Visotzky
• Mazel by Rebecca Goldstein
• And They Shall Be My People : An American Rabbi and His Congregation by Paul Wilkes (Hardcover or Paperback.)
• This is My God by Herman Wouk
• An Orphan in History by Paul Cowan
• Zaddik by David Rosenbaum
• Why Should Jews Survive by Michael Goldberg
• Liberal Judaism by Eugene B Borowitz
• Boychiks in the Hood by Robert Eisenberg
• For Those Who Can't Believe by Harold M. Schulweis
• A People Divided by Jack Wertheimer
• God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know by Lawrence Kushner
• Deborah, Golda, and Me : Being Female and Jewish in America by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• Lovesong : Becoming a Jew by Julius Lester
• Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
• The Jew in the Lotus : A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India by Rodger Kamenet