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Bookclub: The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir by Betsy Lerner

by Josie Zeman

bridge ladiesShomrei Book Club

With all the Jewish holidays in October, we will meet next on Monday, Nov. 14 at 7:30pm to discuss “The Bridge Ladies:  A Memoir” by Betsy Lerner.  This is a charming intergenerational story based on a bridge club that is well into its 6th decade.  The author’s mother is one of the stalwart members , all Jewish women.  Naturally, there is some family tension revealed in the story. Each woman has chosen a conventional path for her time, but each also has a complicated past.

Please join us in reading this book which will make for an interesting discussion.

Josie Zeman

All are welcome to join us. Contact Josie Zeman at  for more information if you are interested.

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  • Josie Zeman

    Josie Zeman joined Shomrei in 2007 (not sure) shortly after moving to Montclair to find a compatible community in retirement. She volunteers to do public relations outreach for Shomrei, helps in the office, and the kitchen, organizes sessions of the monthly Book Club, takes classes with the rabbi to learn all the things about Judaism that she never knew growing up in a Reform congregation in the South. She is proud to be a member of this dynamic synagogue!

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