05/21/2026
Temple Beth Israel of Longboat Key’s GREEN 💚TEAM has been impacting the environment for the better in big and small ways. This Friday they bring Florida Atlantic University professor Dr Andrew Furman whose inspiring writing informs our desire to make the planet better.
Jessica Spitalnic Mates
Friday Evening Shabbat Services
Where: Temple Beth Israel Sanctuary
Time: 5:30 pm
Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/C7JXdAILNyc?feature=share
UPCOMING SHABBAT GUEST SPEAKERS
Friday, May 22 - Dr. Andrew Furman
In honor of Shavuot
Furman is a professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and teaches in its MFA program in creative writing. His fiction and creative nonfiction frequently engage with the Florida outdoors, but he has also written about Maine, Jewish identity, basketball, lighthouses, swimming, and cast-iron cookware.
His essays and stories have appeared in a variety of publications, including Prairie Schooner, Oxford American, The Southern Review, Santa Monica Review, and Ecotone. He is the author, most recently, of the environmental memoir, Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness (University Press of Florida, 2025), which received a Florida Book Award Honorable Mention, and The World That We Are (Regal House Publishing, 2025), a novel about Thoreau which was just named a Finalist for a Foreword INDIE Award. Other books include Jewfish (Little Curlew Press, 2020), Goldens Are Here (Green Writers Press, 2018), and Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida (University Press of Florida, 2014), which was named a finalist for the ASLE Environmental Book Award. He lives in South Florida with his family.
