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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

7:00pm Boonshoft CJCE

 

One and the Same:  My Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular

 

Come participate as former 60 Minutes producer Abigail Pogrebin explores key child rearing topics such as the importance of one parent one child time and how to balance intimacy and autonomy between siblings.  This can’t miss chat is for anyone with a child in his or her life-for all parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers and counselors.

 

There is no charge for this event but reservations are requested

 

Click here to reserve online

Reservations can also be made by calling Karen Steiger at 937-853-0372

 

Co-sponsored by the Social Services Department of the Jewish Federation of Greater of Dayton.

Light refreshments provided.

In One and the Same, Pogrebin presents a tapestry of twinship, weaving science reporting and personal memoir with the revelatory stories of other twins, such as two sisters who stopped speaking for three years; football stars Tiki and Ronde Barber, who admit their twinship comes before their marriages; a pair of bawdy, self-proclaimed “twin ambassadors” who have created a media empire around their twinness; and brothers whose shared genetic anomaly wrought unspeakable tragedy. In this stirring account, Pogrebin shows how living identical is both a celebration of sameness and a struggle for singularity that defines us all.

Additional Books by Abigail Pogrebin:

Sixty-two of the most accomplished Jews in America speak intimately—most for the first time—about how they feel about being Jewish. In unusually candid interviews conducted by former 60 Minutes producer Abigail Pogrebin, celebrities ranging from Sarah Jessica Parker to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from Larry King to Mike Nichols, reveal how resonant, crucial or incidental being Jewish is in their lives. The connections they have to their Jewish heritage range from hours in synagogue to bagels and lox; but every person speaks to the weight and pride of their Jewish history, the burdens and pleasures of observance, the moments they’ve felt most Jewish (or not). This book of vivid, personal conversations uncovers how being Jewish fits into a public life, and also how the author’s evolving religious identity was changed by what she heard.