Events
Thu, Oct 23
|Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El
PHILADELPHIA, PA: Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El
Join us for a fireside chat with Sarah Hurwitz and Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky to discuss her new book, As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us.
Time & Location
Oct 23, 2025, 7:30 PM
Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El, 1001 Remington Rd, Wynnewood, PA 19096, USA
About the event
Register for the event here: https://www.tbhbe.org/event/sarah-hurwitz
Join us for a fireside chat with Sarah Hurwitz and Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky to discuss her new book. As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us. Sarah Hurwitz is an American speechwriter. She was a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama in 2009 and 2010, and head speechwriter for Michelle Obama from 2010 to 2017. In As a Jew, Hurwitz documents her quest to take back her Jewish identity, how she stripped away the layers of antisemitic lies that made her recoil from her own birthright and unearthed the treasures of Jewish tradition. With antisemitism raging worldwide, Hurwitz’s defiant account of reclaiming the Jewish story and learning to live as a Jew, without apology, has never been timelier or more necessary.
Sarah will sign books after the event