Netanya AACI

Book Club - The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel
2026-05-26 16:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) | Netanya AACI, 28 Shmuel Hanatziv, Netanya, Israel, 4228132, Israel
Book Club -The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel
Led by Marcy Manas and Liz Morley
16:00 Tuesday 26 May
Our Book Talk meets once a month. Books are available to borrow from the Gura Family Memorial Library.
Our May choice is The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel.
In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music in 1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. Soon they realise they share more than a passion for jazz, but their differences seem insurmountable and Aiyi is engaged to another man.
Members NIS 25
Non-members NIS 35
Purchase tickets below, contact the Box Office 09-8330950 or pay at the door.

Book Club - Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
2026-04-28 16:00
Book Club – Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Led by Marcy Manas and Liz Morley
16:00 Tuesday 28 April
Our Book Talk meets once a month. Books are available to borrow from the Gura Family Memorial Library.
In 1906 Cold Sassy, Georgia, gossip spreads fast—especially when Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces he will marry the young milliner Miss Love Simpson just three weeks after his wife’s death. The scandal rocks the town, and fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy becomes both witness and participant in the upheaval.
As chaperone and confidant to his unconventional grandfather, Will watches the surprising romance unfold while navigating his own coming-of-age year—surviving a train accident, first love, and the bittersweet shift from childhood to adolescence. Warm, funny, and richly drawn, Cold Sassy Tree captures small-town Southern life at the turn of the century and the growing pains of change.
Members NIS 25
Non-Members NIS 35
For tickets contact the Box Office 09-8330950 or pay at the door.

Book Club - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - ZOOM Only
2026-03-24 16:00
Book Club – Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Led by Marcy Manas and Liz Morley
16:00 Tuesday 24 March – Zoom Only
Our Book Talk meets once a month. Books are available to borrow from the Gura Family Memorial Library.
Our March choice is a historical fiction, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. This is a novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born in different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery.
Members NIS 25
Non-Members NIS 35
For tickets contact the Box Office 09-8330950 or purchase tickets below.

Book Club - Atonement by Ian McEwan
2026-02-24 16:00
Book Club – Atonement by Ian McEwan
Led by Marcy Manas and Liz Morley
16:00 Tuesday 24 February
Our Book Talk meets once a month. Books are available to borrow from the Gura Family Memorial Library.
Our February choice is Atonement by Ian McEwan. His symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. However, Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives—together with her precocious literary gifts—brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime’s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.
Members NIS 25
Non-Members NIS 35
For tickets contact the Box Office 09-8330950 or pay at the door.

Book Club - The House Girl by Tara Conklin
2026-01-27 16:00
Book Club – The House Girl by Tara Conklin
Led by Marcy Manas and Liz Morley
16:00 Tuesday 27 January
Our Book Talk meets once a month. Books are available to borrow from the Gura Family Memorial Library.
Our January choice is The House Girl by Tara Conklin. This is a stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and an ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell.
New York City, 2004: Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in an elite law firm, is given a difficult, highly sensitive assignment that could make her career. She must find the “perfect plaintiff” to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves. It is through her father, the renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers Josephine Bell and a controversy roiling the art world: are the iconic paintings long ascribed to Lu Anne Bell really the work of her house slave, Josephine? A descendant of Josephine’s would be the perfect face for the reparations lawsuit – if Lina can find one. While following the runaway girl’s faint trail through old letters and plantation records, Lina finds herself questioning her own family history and the secrets that her father has never revealed: How did Lina’s mother die? And why will he never speak about her?
Moving between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, this searing, suspenseful and heartbreaking tale of art and history, love and secrets, explores what it means to repair a wrong and asks whether truth is sometimes more important than justice.
Members NIS 25
Non-Members NIS 35
For tickets contact the Box Office 09-8330950 or pay at the door.

Book Talk - The Man Without a Shadow
2025-12-30 16:00
Book Talk – The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
Led by Marcy Manas and Liz Morley
16:00 Tuesday 30 December (NOTE EARLIER TIME)
Our Book Talk meets once a month. Books are available to borrow from the Gura Family Memorial Library.
Our December choice is The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates. In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe begins studying Elihu Hoopes, “the man without a shadow,” whose memory lasts only seventy seconds after a devastating infection. Over three decades, Margot becomes both fascinated and entangled with Eli as she seeks to unlock his buried childhood trauma while struggling to preserve her own identity. The Man Without a Shadow is a haunting exploration of memory, obsession, and a secret, forbidden bond.
Members NIS 25
Non-Members NIS 35
For tickets contact the Box Office 09-8330950 or pay at the door.
