You can benefit many others when you have a will. While this is the common way to distribute an estate, it also is a wonderful way to make thoughtful gifts.

After you have provided for your family, there are a variety of ways to benefit charitable interests, including your synagogue. Your attorney can add a simple amendment which designates a specific amount, or a percentage of assets to go to your charity after providing for your main beneficiaries.

This is a simple, inexpensive way to adjust your planned giving wishes. Each month we will explore other ways to consider helping the next generation continue Congregation Tifereth Israel.

Rabbi Fenster's Book Club To Study
Two 20th-Century Yiddish Writers

   Responding to the popularity of his first Book Club series, Rabbi Fenster will begin a new four-part series devoted to two of the most important Yiddish writers of the 20^th century -- Isaac Bachevis Singer and Chaim Grade. The Book Club will meet on the last two Thursdays of June and July, at 5:15 p.m., in the community room of the synagogue. The first two sessions, on June 17 and 24, will explore Singer's novel, Shosha. Set in Warsaw against the backdrop of the Holocaust, the story follows protagonist Aaron Greidinger's love for his childhood friend, Shosha, and the horrifying path that both of them endure. The book has been praised not only for its story, but also for its lesson that even against great odds, the humanity of individuals will prevail.

Isaac Bachevis Singer, born near Warsaw, Poland, wrote novels, memoirs, essays, articles and children's books, and is known primarily for his short stories and the characters of enormous complexity and dignity that he created. Isaac Bachevis Singer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1978.

    The final two sessions of this Book Club, on July 22 and 29, will study a memoir, My Mother's Sabbath Days, by Chaim Grade (pronounced Grah-duh), the story of his widowed mother, who peddled fruit to survive in Vilna, his flight from Stalin's Soviet Union, and his despair at finding Vilna ultimately destroyed.

Chaim Grade was born in Vilna, Russia, now Vilnius, Lithuania. Primarily a writer of poetry, short stories and novels, his fiction reflects the lost culture of European Yiddish writers.

For more information about the Book Club, call the shul's program director, Adrianne Greenberg, at 477-0813.

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