BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//ical.marudot.com//iCal Event Maker
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T142247Z
TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZNAME:EDT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
DTSTART:19700308T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZNAME:EST
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
DTSTART:19701101T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260506T205538Z
UID:1778100564509-65753@ical.marudot.com
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T210000
SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof: Sam Sussman
URL:https://anschechesed.org/Scribblers
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Dan Friedman. \n\nSAM SUSSMAN is the author of the novel Boy From the North Country\, a three-time USA Today bestseller and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction. Boy From the North Country was hailed by Kirkus as “the most beautiful and moving mother-son story in recent memory” and named by Oprah Daily as the best debut novel of Fall 2025. Sussman has written for Harper’s\, The Washington Post\, and been profiled in the New York Times. He holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.Phil from Oxford.
LOCATION:Roof of Ansche Chesed\, 251 W 100th St\, New York\, NY 10025
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: Sam Sussman
TRIGGER:-P1D
END:VALARM
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: Sam Sussman
TRIGGER:-PT1H
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260506T205538Z
UID:1778100622090-91366@ical.marudot.com
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T210000
SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof: Nicholas Lemann
URL:https://anschechesed.org/Scribblers
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Lauren Wein Mank\n\nNICHOLAS LEMANN is a professor and dean emeritus at the Columbia Journalism School\, and his new memoir\, Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries\, traces his Louisiana family’s gradual distancing across generations from its Jewish faith and his own efforts to reembrace it. Stace Schiff praised it as “a clear-eyed\, literature-rich\, original and entirely dazzling memoir.” A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999\, Lemann is also the author of The Promised Land\, The Big Test\, Redemption\, and Transaction Man. He lives in New York with his wife\, Judith Shulevitz\, and is a member of Ansche Chesed’s Minyan M’at. \n
LOCATION:Roof of Ansche Chesed\, 251 W 100th St\, New York\, NY 10025
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: Nicholas Lemann
TRIGGER:-P1D
END:VALARM
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: Nicholas Lemann
TRIGGER:-PT1H
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260506T205538Z
UID:1778100670434-60811@ical.marudot.com
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T210000
SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof: Jessica Brilliant Keener
URL:https://anschechesed.org/Scribblers
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Sheila Lewis\n\nJESSICA BRILLIANT KEENER presents Evening Begins the Day. Her debut novel\, Night Swim\, was a national bestseller and rose to #9 on Amazon’s bestseller list. Her novel\, Strangers in Budapest (Algonquin\, 2017) was an Indie Next pick\, chosen as a “best new novel” by Entertainment Weekly\, Real Simple\, Chicago Magazine\, and landed on the Southern Independent bestseller list as well as ranking #2 in Jewish Historical Fiction (Amazon). She is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist's Grant\, creative writing scholarships from Wesleyan University and Brown University\, and multiple fellowships awarded by the Virginia Center for Creative Arts as well as a fellowship in Women’s Leadership from the Omega Institute in NY. Her feature articles (more than 100) have appeared in The Boston Globe\; O\, The Oprah Magazine\, WBUR's Cognoscenti\, Lilith\, Design New England\, Writer's Digest\, and the award-winning anthology\, Alone Together\, Love\, Grief\, and Comfort in the time of Covid-19\, winner of the Washington State Book Award.
LOCATION:Roof of Ansche Chesed\, 251 W 100th St\, New York\, NY 10025
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: Jessica Brilliant Keener
TRIGGER:-P1D
END:VALARM
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: Jessica Brilliant Keener
TRIGGER:-PT1H
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260506T205538Z
UID:1778100718291-76932@ical.marudot.com
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260706T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260706T210000
SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof: Zeeva Bukai
URL:https://anschechesed.org/Scribblers
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Sheila Lewis\n\nZEEVA BUKAI was born in Israel\, raised in New York City\, and lives and writes in Brooklyn. She is the author of The Anatomy of Exile and The World Between. Her stories have appeared in many publications\, and her honors include fellowships from the Center for Fiction\, Hedgebrook\, and the Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence program. She is the Assistant Director of Academic Support at SUNY Empire State University.
LOCATION:Roof of Ansche Chesed\, 251 W 100th St\, New York\, NY 10025
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: Zeeva Bukai
TRIGGER:-P1D
END:VALARM
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: Zeeva Bukai
TRIGGER:-PT1H
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260506T205538Z
UID:1778100758530-44302@ical.marudot.com
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T210000
SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof: TBA
URL:https://anschechesed.org/Scribblers
LOCATION:Roof of Ansche Chesed\, 251 W 100th St\, New York\, NY 10025
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: TBA
TRIGGER:-P1D
END:VALARM
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: TBA
TRIGGER:-PT1H
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260506T205538Z
UID:1778100804749-46735@ical.marudot.com
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T210000
SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof: Alice Austen
URL:https://anschechesed.org/Scribblers
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Lauren Wein \n\nALICE AUSTEN is the author of the nationally bestselling debut novel\, 33 Place Brugmann\, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Praised as a work of “richly imagined new historical fiction” by The New York Times and “a beautiful and deeply engaging novel” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett\, the novel is a love story\, mystery\, and philosophical puzzle\, told in the singular voices of the residents of a Beaux Arts apartment house in Belgium during World War II. Austen won the John Cassavetes Award for her debut film Give Me Liberty (writer/producer)\, and is a past resident of the Royal Court Theatre. She studied creative writing under Seamus Heaney at Harvard\, where she received her J.D.\, after which she moved to Brussels and lived on Place Brugmann. Austen currently lives in Milwaukee. 
LOCATION:Roof of Ansche Chesed\, 251 W 100th St\, New York\, NY 10025
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: Alice Austen
TRIGGER:-P1D
END:VALARM
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: Alice Austen
TRIGGER:-PT1H
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260506T205538Z
UID:1778100868280-11176@ical.marudot.com
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T210000
SUMMARY:Scribblers on the Roof: An Evening of Poetry - Alicia Ostriker\, Sarah Stern
URL:https://anschechesed.org/Scribblers
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Owen Lewis\n\nSARAH STERN is the author of four poetry books: Dear Letters in the Red Box (Kelsay Books\, 2026)\, We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune (Kelsay Books\, 2018)\, But Today Is Different (Wipf and Stock Publishers\, 2014)\, and Another Word for Love (Finishing Line Press\, 2011). She is a 2026 Yetzirah Yotzer Fellow\, six-time winner of the Bronx Council on the arts BRIO Poetry Award\, a recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations\, and several Poets & Writers Readings & Workshops Grants. \n\nStern is an educator at Poets House in New York City. She has taught poetry workshops at Poets House\, WritingWorkshops.com\, Off Campus Writers’ Workshop (OCWW)\, the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan\, the New York Public LIbrary\, CSAIR Adult Learning Institute\, Hostos Community College\, the Bronx Zoo\, Edgar Allen Poe Visitor Center\, and privately. Stern is the founder of SDGS Solutions\, a communications and marketing consultancy. She has worked at universities\, cultural centers\, and think tanks. She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. \n\nKnown for her intelligence and passionate appraisal of women’s place in literature\, ALICIA OSTRIKER’S poetry and criticism investigates themes of family\, social justice\, Jewish identity\, and personal growth. Ostriker’s books of criticism include For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book (2009)\, Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry\, Politics\, and the Erotic (2000)\, and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America (1983). Of her place in American letters\, the writer Joyce Carol Oates noted: “Alicia Ostriker has become one of those brilliantly provocative and imaginatively gifted contemporaries whose iconoclastic expression\, whether in prose or poetry\, is essential to our understanding of our American selves.” Ostriker will be reading selections from two books: The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems 1979-2011 and The Holy and Broken Bliss: Poems in Plague Time (2024).
LOCATION:Roof of Ansche Chesed\, 251 W 100th St\, New York\, NY 10025
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: An Evening of Poetry - Alicia Ostriker, Sarah Stern
TRIGGER:-P1D
END:VALARM
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Scribblers on the Roof: An Evening of Poetry - Alicia Ostriker, Sarah Stern
TRIGGER:-PT1H
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR