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Book Signing and Discussion

Josh Safran, author of Free Spirit, comes to the Teaneck General Store

Josh Safran, as an attorney, documentary filmmaker and Orthodox Jew will be speaking in Teaneck on October 13.

Join Us for a Conversation with Joshua Safran,

Author of a Stunning New Memoir, Free Spiritabout a Childhood Spent on the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

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Audiences were first introduced to attorney and author Joshua Safran in the critically acclaimed 2011 documentary Crime After Crime (Sundance, Oprah Winfrey Network) which chronicled his seven-year struggle to free a battered woman from prison. The riveting courtroom story profiled the strength Safran drew from his faith as an Orthodox Jew.  What wasn’t told in the film was just as dramatic and heartbreaking: Safran’s own story which in no small measure explains why he took on this case in the first place. Now in FREE SPIRIT: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid(Hyperion/Hachette), Safran has written a viscerally powerful and eloquent memoir that shows the darker side of The Age of Aquarius. Safran recounts hitchhiking across the American West with his wiccan revolutionary mother and standing up to his violent, alcoholic, guerilla-fighter stepfather.  His story reveals how he overcame adversity, reconnected to his Jewish heritage, and became a lawyer. Come see why Safran has been described as one of the next generation’s most inspired spiritual leaders and why Publishers Weekly called Safran’s stories “introspective, hilarious, and heartbreaking.” 

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The Honorable State Senator, Loretta Weinberg, a well-known advocate for  victims of abuse will be in attendance.

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Ms. Elke Stein of. Project S.A.R.A.H., (Stop Abusive Relationships At Home) will discuss various resources that are available for victims of abuse.

 Project SARAH is a statewide provider of services for Jewish victims of Domestic Violence  and Sexual Abuse.

Click here for more information on some of the services provided by Project Sarah:

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