New summer schedule

Friends,

Kol haKfar -- under Anya's scheduling mastery -- is adapting a slightly different game plan this summer. We'll meet every other weekend; which means we're backing off on the strict first and third Fridays rule so we can provide you with more davening opportunities while we work around July 4th. We're hosting this Friday May 30th, and then on June 13th, June 27th and July 11th and 25th.

Our host this Friday is still confirming her availability, but it'll be in the West Village at 7pm.

The parsha is bamidbar as we begin a new sefer of the Torah.

We also need someone to photocopy and bind Friday night prayers in Hebrew, English and transliteration, including ana b'koach. Anyone up to the task? We'll host a kiddush in your honor.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

It's my great pleasure to publicize Rachel Sontag's new book, "House Rules." She has a reading tomorrow:

Wed. May 28th at 7:30
Guerrilla Lit Reading Series
BAR on A - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street

Buy her book!

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly
Sontag, a doctor's daughter, grew up in a family that seemed every bit the normal, suburban ideal. She and her sister were raised to value book smarts as well as worldly experience. What those outside of the family didn't know was that the reason Sontag was so accomplished and committed to her extracurricular activities was that she would've done anything to get away from her father, Stephen. By enforcing a peculiar system of rules and consequences, he micromanaged every moment of her life, tape-recording her conversations, measuring the length of her fingernails and locking all the phones in a safe when he left the house. When Sontag broke the rules, regardless of circumstance, he would verbally abuse her for hours, dictating letters of apology from her to him (I am a selfish, rotten, worthless brat, etc.). Sontag's mother, Ellen, reneged on plans to divorce him for years, perhaps partly because Stephen prescribed her into complacency with lithium. In adulthood, Sontag found herself caught in self-defeating patterns that smacked of her father's thrall. Struggling to break free, she even resorted to homelessness before finally severing her relationship with Stephen. Sontag's is a brave account, not only of what it's like to take the brunt of an abusive parent's wrath, but of what it means to have the courage to leave. (Apr.)
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Publishers Weekly
"Sontag's is a brave account, not only of what it's like to take the brunt of an abusive parent's wrath, but of what it means to have the courage to leave."