BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:894@tbeonline.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T120000 DTSTAMP:20260210T194344Z URL:https://www.tbeonline.org/events/bites-books-2/ SUMMARY:Bites & Books DESCRIPTION:\nThursday\, March 12\nNoon\n \;\nKlara’s Truth: A Novel by Susan Weissbach Friedman\nFacilitator: Susie Weiner\n \;\nIt is May 2014\, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine\, single\, professor of archa eology at a small liberal arts college in Maine—has just received a lett er from her estranged mother\, Bessie. Her father\, she learns—the man w ho has been absent from her life for the last forty-three years—is dead. But now the Polish government is giving financial reparations for land it stole from its Jewish citizens during WWII\, and Bessie wants the money. Klara has little interest in the money—but she does want answers about h er father. She flies to Warsaw\, determined to learn more.\nIn Poland\, Kl ara begins to piece together her father’s\, and her own\, story. She als o connects with extended family\, begins a romantic relationship\, and dis covers her calling: repairing the hundreds of forgotten\, and mostly destr oyed\, pre-War Jewish cemeteries in Poland. Along the way\, she finds the tools to make peace with her past and\, for the first time in her life\, b uild purposefully toward a bigger future.\n \;\nREGISTER TODAY!\nPleas e consider making a suggested $36 donation when signing up for the 2025-20 26 Bites &\; Books year. This will help offset the cost of food and boo ks. Thank you!\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.tbeonline.org/wp-content/uploads/202 5/07/Bites-and-Books-2026-MAY-12-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Featured END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR