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Book Discussion: Uncovered with Author, Leah Lax

September 18, 2016 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for a special event on Sunday, September 18 as Leah Lax, author of Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home, visits HCRJ for a book discussion.

In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story – beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she’s known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and motherhood during her years with the Hasidim, and explores how her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings simmer beneath the surface throughout her time there. The first memoir to tell of a gay woman who spent years in the Hasidic fold, Uncovered is the moving story of Lax’s journey toward finding a home where she truly belongs.

Signed copies of Uncovered are now available for purchase in the temple office for $16.95.

A light breakfast will be provided. To RSVP for this special event, please email Justin at 713-782-4162 or admin@hcrj.org.

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Date:
September 18, 2016
Time:
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Venue

HCRJ
801 Bering Drive
Houston, TX 77057 United States
Phone
713-782-4162
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Organizer

Justin Deutsch