ChairRhonda Wener

Co-ChairsSusan Berk Barbara Linn Lisa Rosenkranz

Committee*

Book & Author

JUF

Women’s

Event

The Or L’Atid flame, or light unto the future, represents a woman’s commitment to ensure the future of the Jewish community by endowing her Lion of Judahcampaign gift.

Wendy AbramsCindy AlpertSusan AmentDebra BauerEsther BaumgartenJanna BerkJodie BerkmanGail BrownJan ChannonSusan Spier ChapmanCarol Perel ColbyJudy CravenSusan DavidsonLinda DickensJennifer DolinMarilyn Allswang EisenbergAbby ElkinsJudy FarbyNancy FertigLinda Schottenstein FisherAndrea FoxKim FrankenthalRuth FrommMary GellerNancy GoozeDana GordonHilary GreenbergGail GreenspahnLisa HaasDenise HamburgerPearl KaganCindy Kaplan

Deborah Schrayer KarminJill KatlinNancy KatzHelaine Katz-RatskoffPenny KeeshinLinda KelloughLore KirchheimerLori KomisarMarlene KonikAdrienne KriezelmanJane Cadden LedermanIona LevenfeldKaren Levine Francine LevyKim LevyBarbara LiebermanSusan LorchAmy LowensteinLaurie LustbaderRobin NankinWendy NathanJodi NewmarkIlene NovackHella OkmanWendi PassenJody PerlVicki PinesSusan Kagen PodellJanet ResnickPaula ResnickAndrea Ableman RichLisa Rubinstein

Gail RudoMally RutkoffJulie SacksSusan SacksAndrea SaffirCharlene SalesLili SchwartzSusan SebulskyCheryl SederShirlee ShafterMarjie ShapiroMyrna ShawSusan ShermanLaura ShulmanKimberly ShwachmanLinda Soreff SiegelRenee Birnberg SilbermanSusan SirotaShari SlavinBarbara Kaplan SlutskyJudy SmithRobin SmulsonMelissa Weiss SpellmanTerri SteinMarcia StoneAndrea TickMarilyn VenderKaren WanderMichele Sackheim WeinLaura White

*In Formation

2012

Women’s Board

Deanna Drucker, PresidentMartha Davidson, 2012 Vice President, Campaign

Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Skip Schrayer, Chairman of the Board Stephen J. Malkin, 2012 General Campaign Chairman

Dr. Steven B. Nasatir, PresidentJeffrey L. Cohen, Senior Vice President, Financial Resource Development

Beth Cherner, Vice President, Campaign Sherryl Steinberg, Associate Vice President, Women’s Division

Elissa Kagan, Director of Young Women’s ProgrammingFara Cardelli, Samantha Wolf, Campaign Associates, Women’s Division

The Women’s Board of the Jewish United Fundinvites you to attend our

With Special Guest Speaker Diane Ackerman

Author of One Hundred Names for Loveand The Zookeeper’s Wife

Wednesday, March 21, 2012Green Acres Country Club

916 Dundee Road, Northbrook

9:30 a.m. Registration and breakfast10:00 a.m. Program to begin promptly

An $1800 Minimum individual contribution to the 2012 JUF Annual Campaign is required to attend.

Couvert $50

Dietary Laws observed

Diane Ackerman will sign books after the program.

Valet parking will be provided.

Your response is requested on the enclosed card, or you may register at

http://www.juf.org/book_and_author

If you have any questions or would like more information, pleasecontact Samantha Wolf in the Women’s Division at (312) 444-2847 or SamanthaWolf@juf.org

Cancellations after Friday, March 16 will not be refunded.

The estimated value of the program is $50, which is not tax-deductible.

BookAuthor Event&

About the Guest Speaker…

Diane Ackerman

Poet, essayist, and naturalist, DianeAckerman is the author of two dozen highlyacclaimed works of nonfiction and poetry.

Her 2007 memoir, The Zookeeper's Wife,received the Orion Book Award, whichhonored it as "a groundbreaking work ofnonfiction, in which the human relationshipto nature is explored in an absolutelyoriginal way by looking at the Holocaust. A few years ago, 'nature' writers wereasking themselves, ‘How can a book be atthe same time a work of art, an act ofconscientious objection to the destruction ofthe world, and an affirmation of hope andhuman decency?’ The Zookeeper's Wifeanswers this question."

Her most recent book, One Hundred Wordsfor Love, is about Ackerman's husband, agifted wordsmith, author and intellectual,who suffered a stroke that robbed him of theability to speak. Standard therapies yieldedlittle but frustration, and the book recountsthe story of how Diane herself was able toguide Paul back to the world of words.

Ms. Ackerman has received a D. Lit. fromKenyon College, Guggenheim Fellowship,Orion Book Award, John Burroughs NatureAward, and the Lavan Poetry Prize, and hasbeen honored as a Literary Lion by the NewYork Public Library.

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