Join the OC Jewish Arts Festival at the Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County for a virtual author event - Books & Bagels, The Enemy Beside Me by Naomi Ragen.  Discussion led by Dana Susson, Esq.  Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about two people fighting for reconciliation over unforgivable crimes of the past.

Taking over from her father and grandfather as the head of the Survivor’s Campaign, an organization whose purpose is to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, Milia Gottstein has dedicated her life to making sure the voices of Holocaust victims will never be silenced. The overwhelming and heartbreaking work often took time away from her personal family life, and just when she is getting ready to pass on her work to others, an unexpected phone call suddenly explodes all she thought she knew about her present and her future.

Naomi Ragen is an American-born novelist, playwright and journalist who has lived in Israel since 1971. She has published twelve internationally best-selling novels, and is the author of a hit play, "Women's Minyan", that has been performed more than 600 times in Israel's National Theatre as well as in the United States and Argentina. Naomi has written for the Jerusalem Post and other publications in Israel and abroad, as well as to her blog list, about Israel and Jewish issues. An Orthodox woman, feminist and iconoclast, Naomi is a tireless advocate for women's rights in Israel, waging a relentless campaign against domestic abuse and bias in rabbinical courts.

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