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Female authors, Rochelle Weinstein, Jacqueline Friedland, Alison Rose Greenberg, and Samantha Greene Woodruff will be featured as part of the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center’s Meet the Author Jewish Book Series on Monday, January 29, at 7:30pm, in the JCC’s Alan and Diane Lieberman Theater, 18900 NE 25th Avenue, North Miami Beach.
Entitled “Great Friends, Great Thoughts, Great Readers: Four Jewish Authors and the Connecting Power of Fiction” will discuss their most recent works of fiction as they explore each of their book’s characters and the Jewish influence in their writings.
Bestselling authors – Rochelle Weinstein, Jacqueline Friedland, Alison Rose Greenberg & Samantha Greene Woodruff – discuss Judaism, community, and books with moderator, Andrea Peskind Katz, founder of the Great Thoughts Great Readers Book Salon, a private Group on Facebook with over 6,500 readers and authors interacting daily.
Rochelle B. Weinstein
Rochelle B. Weinstein, an Amazon best-selling author, will discuss her recently released When We We Let Go. Her other books have included This is Not How it Ends, Somebody’s Daughter, Where We Fall, The Mourning After, and What We Leave Behind. A former entertainment industry executive, Weinstein has served as Miami’s NBC 6 in The Mix local book contributor, teaches workshops at Nova Southeastern University, and writes a monthly book column for Women Writers, Women’s Books. A Miami native, she now splits her time between South Florida and the mountains of North Carolina. Rochelle is currently working on her eighth novel – which will be released in February 2025.
Jacqueline Friedland
Jacqueline Friedland is a USA Today bestselling author and will discuss latest book, The Stockwell Letters. Her other books include He Gets That From Me and Trouble the Water. Practicing commercial litigation after graduating NYU Law School, Friedland then transitioned to teaching Legal Writing and Lawyering Skills at New York’s Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, while also beginning to work on her first book. Deciding to devote herself to full time writing, Friedland enrolled in Sarah Lawrence College where she earned a Masters of Fine Arts. Friedland’s books have received multiple awards, including the gold medal for fiction from Reader’s Favorite and first place in both the Next Gen Indie Awards and the American Fiction Awards.
Alison Rose Greenberg
Alison Rose Greenberg will discuss Maybe Once, Maybe Twice. A screenwriter turned author, Greenberg previously authored, Bad Luck Bridesmaid. Currently living in Atlanta, Greenberg attended the University of Southern California where she took her first screenwriting class. A journey from writing led to marketing jobs, before coming back full-circle to her first love of writing books. Alison admits that she speaks fluent rom-com, lives for 90’s WB dramas, and cries to Taylor Swift.
Samatha Greene Woodruff
Samatha Greene Woodruff will discuss her debut novel, The Lobotomist’s Wife. Initially, she put her MBA to use working at Viacom’s Nickolodeon for fifteen years, until leaving to become a “full-time” mom. In her newfound “free” time, she tried her hand at fiction writing at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, where she found her true calling as a writer of historical fiction. Her debut novel became a #1 Amazon bestseller and First Reads pick. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, Writer’s Digest, Female First, Read 650, and more. Her second novel, The Trade Off, will be released in the Fall of 2024 by Lake Union. A resident of southern Connecticut, Samantha, in her spare time, can be found in the yoga studio, at a concert, singing Taylor Swift at the top of her lungs in the car, or out for a long walk with friends.
Moderating this program will be Andrea Peskind Katz, founder of the Great Thoughts Great Readers Book Salon.
All presentations of the Meet the Author Jewish Book Series are offered complimentary and include light refreshment, including a talkback with the authors, and a book-signing.
All the events of this series, which are presented by the Michael-Ann Russell JCC with its partners, the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus, Chabad Chayil, Mishkan Miami of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, and Temple Sinai of North Dade, are open to the public at no charge and require an RSVP to David Surowitz, Series Coordinator, at 305-932-4200, ext. 127 or davids@marjcc.org.
Members of the Meet the Author Jewish Book Series Committee, comprised of representatives from the respective partnering organizations, are:
Beth Albert
Audrey Aronchick
Karen Sue Dennis
Elaine Fisher
Hugo Hervitz
Rabbi Moishe Kievman
Rabbi Fred Klein
Patrice Kraus
Lisa Mannis
Shirley Press
Randy Rubin
Adrienne Scheck
Goldye Wigutow
Miriam Zirdok
David Surowitz, Series Coordinator
