WoOPT Book Club

Join us on Monday, September 16th at 7:30pm as we discuss The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan. 

In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, went to Israel, with the goal of seeing the house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house, he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. 

Based on extensive research, the author brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, suggesting that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and reconciliation.

We will be meeting in person at the temple, with a ZOOM option.  Limited copies will be available at the Oak Park Public Library, please call in advance to make sure they are in.
ANYONE AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME… you don't have to be a woman, just need a desire to talk about great Jewish books!  For more information contact Sheila Pont at swpont@gmail.com