Saturday, Nov. 8

Stephen Fried, “The New Rabbi: A Congregation Searches for Its Leader,” will speak at 7:30 p.m. $10.

Sunday, Nov. 9

Lillian Faderman, “Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir,” 10:30 a.m. $8.

Deborah Lee Rose, “The Twelve Days of Kindergarten,” 12:15 and 1 p.m.

Tama Goodman and Matt Biers-Ariel, “The Seven Species,” 1:30 p.m.

Gemar the Magician, 2:30 p.m. $1.

Barbara Lovenheim, “Survival in the Shadows: Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler’s Berlin,” 7 p.m., $3.

Monday, Nov. 10

Ayelet Waldman, “Daughter’s Keeper,” 10 a.m., $5.

Tuesday, Nov. 11

Donna Rosenthal, “The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land,” 10 a.m., $5.

Wednesday, Nov. 12:

Daniel Levitas, “The Terrorist Next Door,” 7:30 p.m., $10.

Thursday, Nov. 13

Sue Fishkoff, “The Rebbe’s Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch, ” 7:30 p.m. $10.

Friday, Nov. 14

David Biale, “Cultures of the Jews: A New History,” 10 a.m., $5.

Saturday, Nov.15

Gerald Nachman, “Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s,” 7:30 p.m., $10.

Sunday, Nov. 16

Lin Weber, “Under the Vine and the Fig Tree: The Jews of the Napa Valley,” 3 p.m., $10. Wine tasting to follow lecture.

Monday, Nov. 17

Gloria Becker Marchick, “Shalom in My Heart, Salaam on My Lips: A Jewish Woman in Modern Morocco,” 12 p.m., $18, including lunch.

Tuesday, November 18

Theodore Roszak, “The Devil and Daniel Silverman,” 10 a.m., $5.

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