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Reni­ta Last

Reni­ta Last is a mem­ber of the Nas­sau Region of Hadassah’s Exec­u­tive Board. She has coor­di­nat­ed the Film Forum Series for the Region and served as Pro­gram­ming and Health Coor­di­na­tors and as a mem­ber of the Advo­ca­cy Committee.

She has vol­un­teered as a docent at the Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al and Tol­er­ance Cen­ter of Nas­sau Coun­ty teach­ing the all- impor­tant lessons of the Holo­caust and tol­er­ance. A retired teacher of the Gift­ed and Tal­ent­ed, she loves par­tic­i­pat­ing in book clubs and writ­ing projects.

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Fic­tion
Good Heart
Alan Newman
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Fic­tion
Not Our Kind: A Novel
Kit­ty Zeldis
Cover of My Mother's Son: A Novel
Fic­tion
My Moth­er’s Son: A Novel
David Hir­sh­berg
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Fic­tion
The Lost Family
Jen­na Blum
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Fic­tion
Bed-Stuy Is Burning
Bri­an Platzer
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Non­fic­tion
Danc­ing on a Pow­der Keg
Michal Schwartz
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Fic­tion
Isles of the Blind
Robert Rosenberg
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Fic­tion
Leav­ing Lucy Pear
Anna Solomon
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Fic­tion
Karoli­na’s Twins
Ronald H. Balson
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Fic­tion
Ques­tion­ing Return
Beth Kissileff
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Fic­tion
The Wait­ing Room
Leah Kamin­sky
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Fic­tion
The Beau­ty Queen of Jerusalem
Sarit Yishai-Levi; Anthony Berris, trans.
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But You Did Not Come Back
Marceline Loridan-Ivens; Sandra Smith, trans.
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Fic­tion
Juven­tud
Vanessa Blakeslee
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Fic­tion
The Death’s Head Chess Club
John Donoghue

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