The Brunch is free and open to all Har Shalom Congregants and their guests.
No RSVP required. Your attendance at 9:00am minyan before the brunch is encouraged.

Aimee (Ginsburg) Bikel—The City of Light: Stories and Songs of Theodore Bikel (Co-Sponsored by Men’s Club, Sisterhood, and Congregation Har Shalom. Mrs. Bikel is conducting this special event that includes electronic versions of his music in honor of the 100th anniversary of Mr. Bikel’s birth. Theodore Bikel was an Austrian actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist, and political activist. He appeared in films, including the African Queen, Moulin Rouge, The Kidnappers, the Enemy Below, I Want to Live, My Fair Lady, the Russians Are Coming and 200 Motels. In 1969, Bikel began acting and singing on stage as Tevye in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, performing the role more times than any other actor.  
Aimee Ginsburg Bikel is an author, an award-winning journalist and foreign correspondent, and public speaker. In her role as the director of the Theodore Bikel Legacy Project she is also a community organizer and event producer. The City of Lights is a book authored by Theodore & Aimee Bikel. The book will be available for purchase and signing at the Brunch. 

Critical acclaim included:
“An especially important episode in (Theo Bikel's) remarkable life story is now retold by his widow, Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, in "Theodore Bikel's The City of Light"....the story has been transformed into an illustrated children's book...full of both pleasures and challenges that will last all year long. Ginsburg Bikel and (illustrator Noah) Phillips have risen to an extraordinarily difficult task by foreshadowing the events of the Holocaust without confronting her young readers with its atrocities. Indeed, "Theodore Bikel's The City of Light" is a book that can be used to open a conversation about events in Jewish history that will be revealed in full only when the child is much older.” - Jonathan Kirsch, The Jewish Journal