All Upcoming Events
JBI Library offers both virtual and in-person events, our programs are accessible, free, and open to everyone.
Session 2 of Customs of the High Holy Days with Dr. Eve Keller: The Art of Ushpizim (Welcoming Holy Guests)
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM
Ever wonder about the traditions that make the Jewish High Holiday season unique?
Joan’s Book Club Divide Me by Zero by Lara Vapnyar, Audio, EN408922
Thursday, September 24th, 5pm EST
As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just found out that her mother is dying. Katya turns to the unfinished notes for her mother's last textbook, hoping to find guidance in mathematical concepts. With humor, intelligence, and unfailing honesty, Katya traces back her life's journey: her childhood in Soviet Russia, her parents' great love, the death of her father, her mother's career as a renowned mathematician, and their immigration to the United States.
Lori’s Book Club: Eternal Life by Dara Horn, EN408598
Thursday, October 1st, 5pm EST
Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can’t die. Her recent troubles―widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son―are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children.
Virtual Author Talk with Minna Bromberg, author of Every Body Beloved, Audio EN408913, Large print LTE08913, and Braille BRN008913
Wednesday, October 14th, 12:00pm ET
In “Every Body Beloved: A Jewish Embrace of Fatness,” founder of Fat Torah Minna Bromberg lays bare the harm of anti-fat bias and the restorative potential for body liberation in Jewish tradition to confront fatphobia. She demonstrates what we can learn from Jewish tradition that will allow us to usher in a culture of healing and acceptance of all bodies created in the Divine image.
Virtual film screening of Babka (with audio description) and Q&A with the director and screenwriter Serena Dykman
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 5:30PM ET
In Hasidic Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a newly blind Jewish Orthodox baker forms an unlikely friendship with a Queer Catholic Latino guide dog trainer, embarking on an eye-opening journey to overcome personal and cultural barriers in his quest to reopen his beloved bakery.
Lori’s Book Club: The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker, available from NLS as DB 76801
Thursday December 3rd, 5pm Eastern
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. As the ship arrives in New York in 1899, Chava is unmoored and adrift until a rabbi on the Lower East Side recognizes her for the creature she is and takes her in.
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