EMERSON, N.J.—Congregation B’nai Israel of Emerson invites young adults, teens, and their parents to meet with author Jennifer Voigt Kaplan via Zoom on Sunday, April 18 at 9:45 a.m.
Her novel “Crushing the Red Flowers” is about German guilt and Jewish victimhood and was awarded the 2020 Christopher Award in the Books for Young People category.
It was recognized in six literary contests before its publication, including earning a Letter of Merit for the SCBWI Work-in-Progress Grant and winning the middle-grade category of Publishers Weekly Booklife Prize for Fiction.
Voigt Kaplan was born in Germany, raised in Philadelphia, and now resides in the New York City area. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in marketing and from the London School of Economics in social psychology.
Endorsed by popular author James Patterson, this novel was described by The Jewish Book Council as “a gripping story which avoids simple explanation in favor of implicit suggestion.”
For more information and to receive the Zoom link, email sisterhood.chair@bisrael.com.
Congregation B’nai Israel is an innovative Conservative synagogue located at 53 Palisade Ave., near the Emerson Public Library. For more information call (201) or visit bisrael.com.