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Anti-Bullying Author Elaine Wolf to Speak in June

Award-winning author Elaine Wolf will discuss her powerful novel, Danny’s Mom at a Brunch event on Sunday, June 8 at Congregation Beth Ahm synagogue at 362 Palisado Ave. (Route 159) in Windsor. The 11 a.m. event is part of the Mandell JCC Jewish Book Festival’s “Authors on the Road” program.

Reservations are needed for the $18 event and should be made in advance by calling Marcia Heneson at (860) 688-2283 or emailing congregationbethahm@gmail.com.

Danny’s Mom is a novel about a mother who risks her career and her marriage when she speaks out against bullying and homophobia in the explosive high school where she works as a guidance counselor. It is a powerful novel that will appeal to all readers – especially mothers, to the millions of adults who work in our schools, and to the LGBTQ community.

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Elaine Wolf is an award-winning writer, writing workshop facilitator, and former public school teacher and district language arts chairperson. Her novel, Camp, won a first-place Forward National Literature Award and was selected as Book of the Month by the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (NY), which honored her with its 2013 Community Upstander Award. For more information about the author and “Danny’s Mom”, visit www.authorelainewolf.com

Now celebrating its 63rd year, Congregation Beth Ahm is a Modern Conservative synagogue that includes individuals and families from throughout Greater Hartford, including interfaith families. Most of its members live in Windsor, Suffield, The Granbys, Ellington, Vernon, Windsor Locks, Bloomfield, Enfield, South Windsor, West Hartford, and the Farmington Valley. The synagogue’s small classroom religious education begins at age 4 with after-school and Sunday classes and continues through adulthood with Learn to Read Hebrew, About Judaism, and Conversion Education classes.

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