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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Heart of a Stranger by Angela Buchdahl
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nHeart of a Stranger by Angela Buchdahl \nAngela Buchdahl was born in Seoul\, the daughter of a Korean Buddhist mother and Jewish American father. Profoundly spiritual from a young age\, by sixteen she felt the first stirrings to become a rabbi. Despite the naysayers and periods of self-doubt—Would a mixed-race woman ever be seen as authentically Jewish or chosen to lead a congregation?—she stayed the course\, which took her first to Yale\, then to rabbinical school\, and finally to the pulpit of one of the largest\, most influential congregations in the world.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-heart-of-a-stranger-by-angela-buchdahl/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Goyhood by Reuven Fenton
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nGoyhood by Reuven Fenton \nFunny\, poignant\, and revelatory while plumbing the emotional depths of the relationship between estranged brothers\, Goyhood examines what happens when one becomes unmoored from a comfortable\, spiritual existence and must decide whether coincidence is in fact destiny. \nWhen Mayer (née Marty) Belkin fled small town Georgia for Brooklyn nearly thirty years ago\, he thought he’d left his wasted youth behind. Now he’s a Talmud scholar married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world – a dirt poor country boy reinvented in the image of God. \nBut his mother’s untimely death brings a shocking Mayer and his ne’er-do-well twin brother David aren’t\, in fact\, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually bereft\, Mayer’s only recourse is to convert to Judaism. But the earliest date he can get is a week from now. What are two estranged brothers to do in the interim? \nSo begins the Belkins’ Rumspringa through America’s Deep South with Mom’s ashes in tow\, plus two an insightful Instagram influencer named Charlayne Valentine and Popeye\, a one-eyed dog. As the crew gets tangled up in a series of increasingly surreal adventures\, Mayer grapples with a God who betrayed him and an emotionally withdrawn wife in Brooklyn who has yet to learn her husband is a counterfeit Jew.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-goyhood-by-reuven-fenton/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe by Dara Horn
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nOne Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe by Dara Horn \nA lost Afikomen\, a time-traveling talking goat\, and a never-ending seder illuminate the meaning of Passover in Dara Horn’s dryly funny graphic novel. \nA family sits at the table\, ready to start their Passover seder. There’s Grandpa\, who’s attempting to lead; anxious dad and pregnant mom; Cool Cousin and Uncool Cousin; 98-year-old great-grandma who survived the Warsaw Ghetto; our narrator\, Wise Child\, and his siblings—one of whom has lost the Afikomen. Without it\, this seder can never end. Accompanied by a wisecracking\, irreverent little goat who shows up at the front door\, Wise Child takes a journey through time and all the Passovers past to retrieve the Afikomen\, end the seder\, and understand his family\, his faith\, and his history along the way. \nComplemented by Theo Ellsworth’s fantastical artwork\, Dara Horn’s first graphic novel is a delightfully bizarre exploration of the meaning of Passover\, layered with joy\, humor\, and magic.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-one-little-goat-a-passover-catastrophe-by-dara-horn/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T200000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nNonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky \nIn this timely\, highly original\, and controversial narrative\, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity\, a course of action\, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars\, he asserts\, which is why it is the preferred method of those who speak truth to power. Nonviolence is a sweeping yet concise history that moves from ancient Hindu times to present-day conflicts raging in the Middle East and elsewhere. Kurlansky also brings into focus just why nonviolence is a “dangerous” idea\, and asks such provocative questions as: Is there such a thing as a “just war”? Could nonviolence have worked against even the most evil regimes in history? Kurlansky draws from history twenty-five provocative lessons on the subject that we can use to effect change today. He shows how\, time and again\, violence is used to suppress nonviolence and its practitioners-Gandhi and Martin Luther King\, for example; that the stated deterrence value of standing national armies and huge weapons arsenals is\, at best\, negligible; and\, encouragingly\, that much of the hard work necessary to begin a movement to end war is already complete. It simply needs to be embraced and accelerated. Engaging\, scholarly\, and brilliantly reasoned\, Nonviolence is a work that compels readers to look at history in an entirely new way. This is not just a manifesto for our times but a trailblazing book whose time has come
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/historydangerousidea/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Refugee by Alan Gratz
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nRefugee by Alan Gratz (novel OR graphic novel) \nJOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming\, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country\, she and her family set out on a raft\, hoping to find safety in America . . .MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction\, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe . . .All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers — from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef\, Isabel\, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades\, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. \nAs powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning\, this highly acclaimed novel was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers’ lives with its meaningful takes on survival\, courage\, and the quest for home.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-refugee-by-alan-gratz/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy\, Paternity\, and Love by Dani Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nInheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy\, Paternity\, and Love by Dani Shapiro \nThe author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity\, paternity\, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016\, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis\, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history—the life she had lived—crumbled beneath her.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-inheritance-a-memoir-of-genealogy-paternity-and-love-by-dani-shapiro/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - The American Way
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nThe American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape\, Superman\, and Marilyn Monroe by Bonnie Siegler and Helene Stapinski \nIn this “necessary and beautifully told story of struggle\, compassion and serendipity” (Forbes)\, the publisher of DC Comics comes to the rescue of a family trying to flee Nazi Berlin\, their lives linking up with a dazzling cast of 20th-century icons\, all eagerly pursuing the American Dream.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-the-american-way/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - To the End of the Land
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nTo the End of the Land by David Grossman \nJust before his release from service in the Israeli army\, Ora’s son Ofer is sent back to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking\, so that no bad news can reach her\, Ora sets out on an epic hike in the Galilee. She is joined by an unlikely companion—Avram\, a former friend and lover with a troubled past—and as they sleep out in the hills\, Ora begins to conjure her son. Ofer’s story\, as told by Ora\, becomes a surprising balm both for her and for Avram.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025-11/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club 2025 - Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nJerusalem Drawn and Quartered: One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian\, Muslim\, Armenian\, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem by Sarah Tuttle-Singer \nSarah has thrown herself into the maelstrom of living in each quarter—where time is measured in Sabbath sunsets and morning bells and calls to prayer\, in stabbing attacks and check points—keeping the holidays in each quarter\, buying bread from the same bread seller\, making friends with people who were once her enemies\, and learning some of the secrets and sharing the stories that make Jerusalem so special\, and so exquisitely ordinary.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025-10/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - My Mother's Secret
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nMy Mother’s Secret by Alina Adams \nAs her revolutionary neighbor mysteriously disappears during Josef Stalin’s Great Terror purges\, 18-year-old Regina suspects that she’s the Kremlin’s next target. Under cover of the night\, she flees from her parents’ communal apartment in 1930s Moscow to the 20th century’s first Jewish state\, Birobidzhan\, on the border between Russia and China. Once there\, Regina has to grapple with where preconceived notions of socialism and Judaism while asking herself the eternal question: What do we owe each other? How can we best help one another? While she contends with these queries and struggles to help Birobidzhan establish itself\, love and war are on the horizon.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025-9/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250814T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250814T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club 2025 - Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nNever Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance by Ari Richter \nNever Again Will I Visit Auschwitz is an act of self-discovery and the resuscitation of historical memory. At its heart is the intersection of a genocidal political moment in 20th century history and the author’s own family history. Told from the perspectives of four generations of the author’s family\, spanning pre-war Germany to post-Trump America\, it is both a celebration of Jewish cultural resilience and a warning of democracy’s fragility in the face of the seductive forces of authoritarianism. Part travelogue\, part memoir\, part historic retelling\, author Ari Richter recreates his family’s journey leading up to and extending beyond the Holocaust.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025-8/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250710T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250710T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - The Plot Against America
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nThe Plot Against America by Philip Roth \nIn an extraordinary feat of narrative invention\, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter\, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler\, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025-7/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Kantika
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nKantika by Elizabeth Graver \nA kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries\, Kantika―“song” in Ladino―follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen\, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew\, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way―a failed marriage\, the need to earn a living\, but also passion\, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage\, she faces her greatest challenge―her disabled stepdaughter\, Luna\, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025-6/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Künstlers in Paradise
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nKünstlers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine \nThere was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare\, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles\, California\, United States of America.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025-5/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T210000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Stranger in My Own Land
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nStranger in My Own Land: Palestine\, Israel and One Family’s Story of Home by Fida Jiryis \nAfter the 1993 Oslo Accords\, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them. This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey\, which is also the story of Palestine\, from the Nakba to the present-a seventy-five-year tale of conflict\, exodus\, occupation\, return and search for belonging\, seen through the eyes of one writer and her family. Jiryis reveals how her father\, Sabri\, a PLO leader and advisor to Yasser Arafat\, chose exile in 1970 because of his work. Her own childhood in Beirut was shaped by regional tensions\, the Lebanese Civil War and the 1982 Israeli invasion\, which led to her mother’s death. Thirteen years later\, the family made an unexpected return to Fassouta\, their village of origin in the Galilee. But Fida\, twenty-two years old and full of love for her country\, had no idea what she was getting into.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025-4/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T210000
DTSTAMP:20260620T112037
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Victory Parade
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nVictory Parade by Leela Corman \nThe author of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Unterzakhn now gives us a heart-wrenching\, phantasmagorical tale of love\, loss\, and trauma both personal and global\, set during World War II in Brooklyn\, New York\, and in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025-3/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T200000
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Religion is Not Done with You
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nReligion is Not Done with You by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Megan Goodwin \nReligion lurks in the floorboards of our daily lives\, whether we want it to or not. A departure from more traditional approaches to “Religion 101\,” Religion Is Not Done with You gives thought-provoking context to the basics of religious studies by challenging readers to consider the origins of their assumptions about religion and broaden their perspectives on what religion is and does.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025-12/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250210
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SUMMARY:EVENT CANCELLED: Presentation & Book Signing - Religion is Not Done with You
DESCRIPTION:Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst (Author and OZ Member) and Megan Goodwin (Author) lead a discussion relating to their new book\, Religion Is Not Done with You: Or\, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race\, Maps\, Bodies\, and Law. \nReligion Is Not Done with You is a smart\, irreverent\, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us – and why you need to understand the work it’s doing. \n\n9:35 am – 10:30 am / OZ Main Sanctuary\nPresentation by co-authors Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Megan Goodwin \n10:30 am – 11:30 am / OZ Social Hall\nBook signing\, coffee\, bagels and additional discussion \n\nAbout Religion Is Not Done with You\n \nReligion lurks in the floorboards of our daily lives\, whether we want it to or not. A departure from more traditional approaches to “Religion 101\,” Religion Is Not Done with You gives thought-provoking context to the basics of religious studies by challenging readers to consider the origins of their assumptions about religion and broaden their perspectives on what religion is and does. \nReligion scholars and Keeping It 101 podcast duo Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Megan Goodwin offer their straightforward\, plainspoken overviews of religious studies theory: that religion is what people do (not just beliefs or individual practices); that people are complicated and messy and constantly changing\, which means religion is also complicated and messy and constantly changing; that religion shapes what choices you get to make. Choices like what you can learn in school; how your government works; what kind of options you have (or increasingly don’t have) in caring for your own body. \n 
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/signing-religion-is-not-done-with-you/
LOCATION:Ohavi Zedek Social Hall\, 188 N. Prospect St\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401
CATEGORIES:Adult Learning,Book Club,Community Events
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - The Whisper Sister
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \nThe Whisper Sister by Jennifer S. Brown \nThe author of Modern Girls delivers an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Prohibition-era New York\, tracing one immigrant family’s fortunes and a young girl’s journey from the schoolyard to the speakeasy.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-2025/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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