Brenda Janowitz

The Audrey Hepburn Estate, a CBS NY Book Club pick. Bylines in The New York Times Modern Love, Real Simple Magazine, The Washington Post, Salon, The NY Post.

[Brenda Janowitz @BrendaJanowitz]

What a day! Thank you @CBSNewYork Book Club with @MaryCalviTV ! #clubcalvi

[CBS New York @CBSNewYork]

Behind The Book | Join our #clubcalvi virtual book club with Mary Calvi and author Brenda Janowitz now. https://t.co/KyIuoUtFG7

[Brenda Janowitz @BrendaJanowitz]

Did you know that @Delta can downgrade your flight to a lower level of seat and there’s nothing you can do about it?

[Brenda Janowitz @BrendaJanowitz]

Yay @JenCalonita !!!

[JenCalonita @JenCalonita]

I can finally share this the good news. If you like adventure, mystery, and quests, ISLE OF EVER, my new MG series with @SourcebooksKids, is coming spring 2025

[(((Rachel Finston))) @RachelFinston]

Some of these authors are just Jews who have said the word “Israel” at one point. Literally, these lists are just ways to stir up hatred towards us. I am once again reminding everyone that *checks notes* it is not cancelable to be Jewish?

[🧩 Lynds & Puzzle, Bookworm 🧩 @Kris360785]

Some of My New books ;) 📚 📕 @BrendaJanowitz @NicholasSparks

[Brenda Janowitz @BrendaJanowitz]

@Kris360785 @NicholasSparks I hope you love THE AUDREY HEPBURN ESTATE!

[Brenda Janowitz @BrendaJanowitz]

@cart_christine Thank you!! I hope you love it!!

[Brenda Janowitz @BrendaJanowitz]

One of the inspirations for THE AUDREY HEPBURN ESTATE was the brilliant book, DUTCH GIRL: AUDREY HEPBURN AND WWII by Robert Matzen. I emailed him and you can imagine how surprised and honored I was when he emailed back! I’m so honored he saw fit to offer a blurb for my novel.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Greta & Margot,

While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. 

You’re both so much more than Kenough.

#HillaryBarbie

[Melissa Roske @MelissaRoske]

‼️MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
🎯Date: Friday, Dec 15-Friday Dec 22
✡️What: An online auction by Artists Against Antisemitism to benefit Project Shema
🎁Bid on: signed books, query & manuscript critiques; virtual classroom visits, artwork, theater tix & MORE!

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

How is this a pro-Palestinian protest? Clearly, it is an antisemitic protest.

[Kathryn Caraway 📚 @UnfollowMe_KC]

A BOOK IN MY TBR
The Audrey Hepburn Estate
by @BrendaJanowitz

This sounds so interesting. Hence had to get it

Have you read it?

#kathryncaraway #booktwt

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I am unaware of another situation where an eight-month pregnant woman was taken hostage and continued to be held in captivity even after her baby was born.

The number of hostages grows now by one. Where are the calls for her and her baby’s release? Instead our students yell Intifada.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

There is a social media account that publicly posted an image of a Jewish student (under the age of 18) and posted an address of a Jewish school with the following caption: “One of the Zionists has been found. He goes to…(and then it proceeds to list the address of a Jewish school).

The public targeting of individual Jewish students and individual Jewish institutions is an incitement to violence and should be met with a response from the NYPD.

For public safety reasons, I will not share the social media posting, specify the social media account, or specify the address of the school. My team and I have flagged the posting for the proper authorities.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Why is it important for our educational leaders to strongly condemn terrorism? I think we have learned why over the last few weeks.

When the leaders of our most prestigious universities and their faculty fail to condemn the most heinous and barbaric terrorism, and to make matters worse they ‘contextualize’ it, this opens the door for hate speech, incitement to violence, antisemitism, and Islamophobia.

When these same universities fail to enforce laws against illegal speech — speech which threatens the lives of a particular ethnic or religious group, the amount and severity of this speech increases, opening the door for violent acts against these groups.

When students are threatened and/or violently attacked on campus and this behavior is not immediately condemned with real consequences for the bad actors, it opens the door for greater threats and more violence.

We have seen many colleges which have a poor historical record for protecting first amendment rights on campus, use the first amendment to defend hate speech and other threats against Israel and the Jewish community that they would never allow against other ethnic groups.

These same universities have codes of conduct for their faculty and students that have also gone unenforced during the last few weeks.

This hypocrisy threatens the safety of students and the ability of educational institutions to succeed in their mission to advance societal knowledge.

Words matter. Particularly when spoken by those who are the leaders for our future leaders.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

The only constant among ceasefires between Israel and Hamas is that Hamas has broken every single one of them.

From the moment it seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas has fired rockets or otherwise attacked Israel in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2021, and 2023 with various skirmishes in between.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me for 16 years, shame on us.

The free world won’t be fooled again.

[Eden Cohen ✡︎ עדן כהן @edencohentweets]

The situation is so absurdly simple: Hamas declared war in the most horrifying, gruesome, and extreme way possible. On a scale of FIFTEEN 9/11s, but also beheaded babies and raped children and the elderly until their bones broke and they died. Every day Hamas refuses to hand over the hostages and surrender, is another day the war goes on. Israel will not surrender to a terror group that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map, kill every Jew, and pursue a global caliphate. Instead of calling for Israel to surrender to their own genocide, call for Hamas to end its reign of terror. Any other suggestion is rooting for evil.

[Julia Dahl @juliadahl]

Your occasional reminder that there are fewer Jews in *the world* - approximately 14 million in 2010, compared with 2 billion Christians & 1.5 billion Muslims - than there are residents of New York State. Think about that before you dismiss our predicament.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

I care. Always have and always will.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Some advice for students:

If an organization of which you are a member puts out a public statement you disagree with, you have a few choices.

You can:

Stay silent and have the entire world conclude that you stand by the statement.

Convince the other members of the group to withdraw or otherwise modify the statement so that it can reflect the views of all members.

Or you can resign in protest.

Claiming that you had no involvement or knowledge of the statement, but remaining a member of the organization without it withdrawing the statement is perhaps the worst of the alternatives, as it appears to simply be an attempt to avoid accountability while continuing to be a member of the organization.

If you were managing a business, would you hire someone who blamed the despicable violent acts of a terrorist group on the victims?

I don’t think so.

Would you hire someone who was a member of a school club who issued a statement blaming lynchings by the KKK on their victims?

I don’t think so.

Would you want them to be an associate at your law firm?

Of course not.

It is not harassment to seek to understand the character of the candidates that you are considering for employment.

In fact, as CEO, it is your obligation to do so on behalf of all of the other employees in your company, the clients and customers it serves, and all of your other stakeholders.

I have heard that the above inquiry has made some members of the groups which put out the statement feel ‘unsafe,’ a word that is sadly overused in universities today.

Ask yourself how unsafe it would feel in Israel beginning Saturday early morning and how unsafe it feels now?

Ask yourself how unsafe your Jewish classmates feel when 32 clubs published a statement assigning sole responsibility for the heinous, deathly acts of terrorists to Israel and the Jews?

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. If you have made a mistake, acknowledge it, and immediately correct your mistaken actions.

Public statements made by organizations of which you are a member can have a material negative impact on your reputation.

I have learned from experience that the best time to fix a mistake is now.

[Syosset Public Library @SyossetLibrary]

Thank you to Long Island Author @BrendaJanowitz for joining us to discuss her most recent release, The Audrey Hepburn Estate (2023). All of Brenda’s books are available at the Library. Check one out today!