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The Charlotte Jewish News - January 2011 - Page 8 Temple Israel Book Club The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World By Lucette Lagnado Monday, January 24, 7:30 PM, Temple Israel “Lucette Lagnado’s captivating account of her family’s life in cos mopolitan Cairo and painful relo cation to America centers on her beloved father. Tall and elegant, Leon Lagnado was known for his white sharkskin suits and movie- star ease.” But the Suez War and the Nassar regime’s cultural holo caust forced Jews from their native Egypt. This captivating memoir is the Temple Israel book club’s selec tion for our Monday, January 24 meeting. Described as a “vivid, heartbreaking, and powerful inversion of the American dream, this personal account illuminates its places and times, providing indelible individual portraits and illustrating the difficulty of assim ilation.” Discussion of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit should pro vide an enriching experience for all attendees. Copies of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado are available at the Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and Lucette Lagnado the public library and for purchase at local bookstores or on-line for under $15. Temple Israel book club meet ings are open to all members of the community, including “drop- ins” and those who haven’t read the book. For additional informa tion contact Linda Levy at 704- 366-6362/levyollie@aol.com. ^ New JLI Course to Come to Charlotte on February 8 Life can be a treadmill — as we go through the motions day after day without ever asking why or seeking what really matters to us. A new JLI course, prepared by the author of the best-selling book. Toward a Meaningful Life, is determined to change that. Here are strategies, tips, and sugges tions for not only discovering where your true meaning lies, but in actually making it a part of your daily existence. Whether you are dealing with family relationships or job satisfaction, this course will help you look beyond a crisis to find the lessons within. Most important of all, these sessions will help you see life as the myste rious, challenging, and satisfying wonder that it really is. The Jewish Learning Institute has revolutionized adult Jewish education and has attracted hun dreds of thousands of people of all kinds of backgrounds and reli gious affiliation to its interesting and invigorating learning sessions. The JLI of Charlotte is hosted by Congregation Ohr HaTorah and will begin on Tuesday February 8, 7:30 PM for six consecutive weeks. The will be a morning option as well beginning on Wednesday February 9, 11 AM. The JLI classes in Charlotte are taught by Rabbi Yossi Groner for evening class and Rabbi Shlomo Cohen for the morning class. All courses are held at the Lubavitch Educational Center at 6619 Sardis Road. The cost for classes is $85 per semester (six classes) per per son or $150 per couple. The objective of this course is to teach and empower individuals of all backgrounds with new life skills based on tradi tional Torah thought, thereby enabling them to transform the way they view their daily lives. The course offers an antidote to the monotony and grind of unchanging routines. It provides newfound energy and exhilaration in taking on chal lenges. And it offers practical strategies for developing a deeper sense of joy and satisfaction. Although the course utilizes the relevant approach and easy per sonal style that made the book Toward a Meaningful Life so pop ular, it is totally free-standing and no prior familiarity with the book is assumed. The course covers the spec trum of life, considering personal growth, rela tionships, home, work, special challenges, and the role of God and faith. We will reframe these § universal and familiar issues in a compelling way in light of the Torah’s perspective, inviting stu dents to challenge their current views and consider a more mean ingful approach to the topic. Each lesson concludes with a toolbox of exercises and guidelines to help students make full use of the ideas and strategies discussed. ^ Temple Emanuel in Statesville has started a Hebrew school. We welcome any new students. Contact Arthur Steinberg, 704-636-3703. lEvvisH Learning Institute
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