Exchange ideas, participate in engaging discussions and connect with JCC community members at our monthly virtual Book Club. 

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled from the CIA typing pool and given the assignment of a lifetime: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dares publish it, and help make its way into print. The Secrets We Kept combines a legendary literary love story with a narrative about two women empowered to lead lives of extraordinary intrigue and risk. 

Arriving as a refugee from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, new MNjcc Book Club reviewer Sophie Kohn Kaminsky’s family settled in Montreal where she grew up, graduated from McGill University and found her life partner Laizer. They moved to Ottawa in 1973, where she had a fulfilling career with the Public Service, Nortel and the RCMP. She also participated in many aspects of the Jewish community, including at the Active Jewish Adults 50+ organization. An avid member of three different book clubs, Sophie has delivered about 20 reviews for the Malca Pass Book Discussion Group and for Temple Israel's Books and Bagels group in Ottawa. Five years ago they moved to Toronto and Sophie has been a participant in the MNjcc Book Club ever since.