Tonight we will have a short service to leave time for our guest . . .

We're thrilled to have author and part-time Vermonter Karen Baum Gordon talk with us, during our in-person and zoomed Shabbat services on Friday, November 18th, about her recently published book The Last Letter: A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust. Through archival documents, correspondence and photos, she has focused on the long shadow of the Holocaust, which took the lives of her grandparents and irrevocably altered her father’s life and her own. A Good Morning America "Pick of the Week," nominee for an American Library Association award in Jewish literature, and #1 seller (already in a second printing) for the University of Tennessee Press, the book is about relationships, forgiveness, and the perseverance to learn more about a loved one's story.

Karen’s connection to Vermont is deep, although she grew up in Dallas and lives full-time in Brooklyn. She and her husband Bob have had a camp in South Hero’s Keeler Bay for over 25 years, raising their sons, Matthew and Adam, here every summer. She wrote much of The Last Letter while sitting on the shore of Lake Champlain, an incredible source of calm and inspiration for her.

Although there’s no need to read the book in advance, if you’d like to, you can purchase it at The Flying Pig in Shelburne or on the purchase tab of karenbaumgordon.com.

Join us for our service in will person and on ZOOM.

Online attendees can view or download most of the pages that we normally use on Friday nights.

*Call the office 802.862.5125 to acquire the passcode.