Our Keruv Shabbat guest speaker will be Carolivia Herron. The title of her talk is: Catching Up With Moses: True Stories of Her Jewish Africana Journey to Judaism Carolivia Herron is an African American Jew who tells lively tales of her African American and Jewish ancestors. She has received many awards for her fiction and children’s writing, and has taught literature and creative writing at Harvard University, the College of William and Mary, and the Jewish Study Center of Washington. Her children’s book, Nappy Hair, was the center of a national controversy about identity, and Always an Olivia continues her tradition of literary novelty with cultural diversity. In addition to giving talks on her own writings she gives presentations nationally on issues of diversity, African American oral epic, and Jewish African American identity.