Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

After I wrote yesterday’s entry on Black History Month I received the email notification that the latest issue of the Book of Life podcast (“about the Jewish people and the books we read”) is online. It happens to be about Sonia Levitin‘s book (and now stage play) “The Return“, which is one of the more popular books at our library. It chronicles an Ethiopian Jewish girl’s walk to freedom in Israel via Operation Moses. On the podcast’s webpage you can listen to an interview with Ms. Levitin, in which she describes what inspired her to write the book and about the current situation of Ethiopian Jews in Israel; watch a clip from the musical and if you scroll down a whole other entry on “Black History Month, Jewish Style.”