The Jerusalem Lover: When Fiction Foretells the Future / Author Shira Dicker in Conversation with 92NY’s Rabbi David Ingber - The 92nd Street Y, New York
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The Jerusalem Lover: When Fiction Foretells the Future

Author Shira Dicker in Conversation with 92NY’s Rabbi David Ingber
Shira Dicker and Rabbi David Ingber
Lolita at Leonard’s of Great Neck and Other Stories from the Before Times book cover

It has often been said that truth is stranger than fiction but sometimes fiction foretells the future in ways that surprise even the writer.

Join us for a riveting conversation about the “The Jerusalem Lover,” the final, eerily prescient story in Shira Dicker’s new and highly acclaimed short story collection, Lolita at Leonard’s of Great Neck and Other Stories from the Before Times.

Set in the aftermath of 9/11, “The Jerusalem Lover” concerns a professor at Columbia University who becomes radicalized following the attacks of that day, becoming increasingly anti-Zionistic. Written more than a decade prior to the recent campus protests, it depicts a decline into the nihilistic madness of antisemitism.

What sparked this story? Was it a flight of fancy or did the author base it on events she witnessed — nearly twenty years earlier — on the American college campus?

The conversation will be followed by a book signing. Musical performance by Judah Goldman.

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Shira Dicker

Shira Dicker is a restless writer-at- large, activist, and publicist who is captivated by contemporary culture …

Shira Dicker

Shira Dicker is a restless writer-at- large, activist, and publicist who is captivated by contemporary culture. She has written for newspapers, magazines, and news sites that are local, national and global. The mother of three adult children and a grandmother known as “EeHee,” she lives in NYC with her husband, the writer Ari L. Goldman, and Luke Wilson the Pomeranian.

Rabbi David Ingber

Rabbi David A. Ingber is the new Senior Director for Jewish Life and Senior Director of the Bronfman Center at 92NY …

Rabbi David Ingber

Rabbi David A. Ingber is the new Senior Director for Jewish Life and Senior Director of the Bronfman Center at 92NY. He serves as the founding rabbi of Romemu, the largest Renewal synagogue in the United States. Rabbi Ingber founded Romemu in NYC in 2006, following his ordination by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Founder of the Jewish Renewal movement. Over the past decade-plus, Romemu has grown into a weekly home for thousands of people, a growing membership of over 1,000 in its two physical locations (Manhattan and Brooklyn), and a growing online global membership. Rabbi Ingber also founded Romemu Yeshiva, the first fully egalitarian Yeshiva (immersive learning center), dedicated to mystical and meditative Jewish learning and practice.

Raised Modern Orthodox in New York, Rabbi Ingber studied at Ramaz, Yeshiva University, Beit Midrash L’Torah, Yeshivat Chaim Berlin, and Yeshivat Chovovei Torah Rabbinical School. He also studied philosophy, psychology and religion at New York University.

Rabbi Ingber’s distinct approach to Torah, rabbinical teaching, and ritualistic practice is informed by his own personal seeking and learning from a wide cross-section of sacred traditions and faiths. He is enlightened by Jewish mysticism and Hasidut, fusing these beliefs with those of other ancient philosophies and world views. Particular influences include 18th Century Kabbalist and Founder of Hasidut, Rabbi Yisrael Ba’al Shem Tov; the great 19th Century Ishbitzer Rebbe, R. Mordechai Leiner; and leading 20th Century thinkers from Kabbalist, Rav Abraham Isaac Kook to psychologist, Carl Jung.

Rabbi Ingber was named by Newsweek as one of the top 50 most influential rabbis in the United States as well as by The Forward as one of the 50 most newsworthy and notable Jews in America. A major 21st Century Jewish thinker and educator, his rich perspective, open heart and mind, and full-bodied approach to Jewish learning has brought him to speak worldwide. He serves on the faculty for the Wexner Heritage Program, and the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and Israel, and was an AJWS Global Justice Fellow. Rabbi Ingber has lectured extensively on the topics of spirituality, theology, Jewish mysticism, prayer, and meditation. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Ariel and their three children.

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