Sussman, Bonita Nathan

Bonita Nathan Sussman is president of an international Jewish organization named Kulanu that supports returning, emerging, and isolated Jewish communities in 33 counties around the globe. She and her husband, Rabbi Gerald Sussman, have traveled extensively to emerging communities in Africa, India, and Latin America. Her photos on her travels have been published and exhibited. Bonita is a graduate of Yeshiva University, Stern College, and has two MA degrees from: Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Bonita serves on the Board of Governors of the New York Board of Rabbis and on the Board of the Staten Island Hebrew Public Charter School. Bonita started the Facebook page “Staten Islanders Against Antisemitism.” She has been awarded the Staten Island Advance Woman of Achievement Award, the Staten Island Council of Jewish Organizations Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Holocaust Center of Wagner College Chai Society Award. Bonita has served as the Rebbitzen of Temple Emanu- El, Staten Island for 41 years. Bonita's website is https://bonitasussman.weebly.com Bonita's YouTube channel is: https://youtube.com/@bonitanathansussman9212?si=j4Do83 ZZM-HXyeMa

7 October 2023 Book I: Jewish Reflections from Around the Globe

2024 1-4955-1283-5
7 October 2023 Book I
Jewish Reflections from Around the Globe offers a glimpse into some of the many perspectives on the horrors of Hamas’ 7 October massacre in Israel and events in Israel, Gaza, and Palestine since. This book is intended to reflect an historical moment of “the year of” 7 October 2023. The contributors in this book were drafting their pieces between 7 October 2023 and May 2024. We hope that this book will be helpful to people— including ordinary and suffering people, scholars, peacemakers, policy influencers, haters, empathizers, and all combinations of people—as the “now-ish” timing of the first six months after 7 October 2023 passes and particularly as more people, groups, institutes, movements, and governments claim that they have correctly assessed the period.

Jewish Africans Describe Their Lives: Evidence of an Unrecognized Indigenous People--Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe

2023 1-4955-1067-0
"The Jewish phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa continues to be rich and diverse. While the world has long known about the prestigious and often ancient Jewish world in North Africa, dynamic Jewish engagements below the Sahara are news to many. ...This work brings to the world stage indigenous Africans involved in Jewish communities in the region speaking for themselves. The bulk of the book consists of adaptions from recorded and transcribed conversations and interviews conducted throughout the region over nearly a decade." -Dr. Marla Brettschneider, Introduction I "All of the testimonies in this book are unique in their own ways. At the same time, however, we can detect several recurring themes running through most or all of them. To my surprise, many of the issues that they discuss are the same ones that more established Jewish communities face all over the world: the struggles to build community, to have a place to pray, to learn how pray and read from the Torah, to educate themselves and their communities, to access information, and to address economic and financial needs. Some confronted antisemitic attitudes and family rejection; others discussed the problems of community continuity, whom to marry, and how to attract new members." Dr. Bonita Nathan Sussman, Introduction II

THE LIFE OF THE FOURTH EARL OF ROCHFORD (1717-1781):
Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Courtier, Diplomat and Statesman

2010 0-7734-1300-6
This study presents Rochford’s important and substantial contribution to Britain’s eighteenth century foreign policy in the context of his times while unfolding the interaction between his career and personal life. The study also offers the first detailed account of the domestic work of a British secretary of state before the 1782 division into Foreign and Home offices. This book contains twenty-seven black and white photographs.