THIS MONTH --
Tomorrow kicks off our March for Membership Campaign. Stay alert during your drives around the valley as Bethlehem Rotarians pop up bigger than life on billboards with a call to join them in our organization. Email or text me at 610-657-0952 if you are interested in being featured on a billboard and if you want me to make you a special profile/photo meme for Facebook to encourage your network to join Rotary. We will be in touch soon with posts you can use on other platforms including Linked In. Invite your network to be our guest at a zoom meeting this month, go on our Boardwalk in Bethlehem (details are being finalized), attend our monthly Happy Hour at Twisted Olive, and/or join our book discussion this month on this book: It's better than it Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear by Gregg Easterbrook.
THIS WEEK –
Naomi Gal will speak to us about the Art of Happiness, a course she created and taught at Moravian University. Naomi is a writer, translator, editor and a professor. She is the author of 16 books, fiction, non-fiction and children’s books in Hebrew and English. Her latest books are Daphne’s Seasons 2007, Free to Be 2009, Soap Opera 2011. She studied at the Sorbonne and holds three master's degrees from the following institutions:
- Haute Ecole de Journalisme
- Haute Etudes Internationales
- Haute Etudes Sociales de Paris
Naomi has translated and edited dozens of books, fiction and non-fiction, some are the autobiographies and biographies of Nathan Sharansky, Itzhak Rabin, Raymonda Hawa Tawil, and Nancy Reagan.
Naomi Gal
She was part of the founding team of Israeli Television and a journalist with Maariv and Yedioth Aharonot from 1968-1997. Since 2003 she has been teaching a myriad of courses at Lafayette and Moravian College among them:
- War in Literature
- Israeli Translated Literature
- Holocaust Literature in First Person
- Creative Writing
- American Jewish Literature
- Judaism Then and Now
- Women Behind the Camera
- Happiness
- The Holy Grail of Western Society.
Since 2017 Gal has been translating Yizkor Books from Hebrew to English for JewishGen.
She is the recipient of the Jerusalem Prize for Roman Romanti 1993, the Witzo Prize for Creative Women in 1999 and prizes for two of her screenplays in 1978 and 1990.
LAST WEEK –
Sue Leyburn, CEO of LifePath presented to our club the services of LifePath. LifePath is a nonprofit that serves individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism in our community. They serve 6 counties and over 1400 people a year. LifePath provides residential, out-patient mental health services, day program and vocational services.Sue Leyburn, CEO of LifePath presented to our club the services of LifePath. LifePath is a nonprofit that serves individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism in our community. They serve 6 counties and over 1400 people a year. LifePath provides residential, out-patient mental health services, day program and vocational services.
THANK YOU -- Robin Burk for working diligently on STEMYEA project and to Rocco Damato, Gerry and Jill Long, Bill Rowe, and Maria Dietrich for sponsoring students to attend the program.