Sonoma authors to be focus of Jewish book festival

*Rabbi Alan Lew and Sherril Jaffe on "One God Clapping: The Spiritual Journey of a Zen Rabbi" at 11:30 a.m.

*Documentary photographer Penny Diane Wolin on "The Jews of Wyoming: Fringe of the Diaspora" at 1:45 p.m.

*Mendocino County poet Stephen Kessler on "After Modigliani" at 2:45 p.m.

*San Francisco attorney Sheldon Siegel on "Special Circumstances" at 3:45 p.m.

"They Array Themselves with Gorgeous Words: What Makes a Book Jewish?" will be the subject of a panel discussion at 12:30 a.m.

Panelists will include Susanne Batzdorff, head librarian of Celia Gurevitch Jewish Library in Santa Rosa; Ellen Brosbe, family educator at S.F.-based Bureau of Jewish Education; Jonah Raskin, communications studies department chair at Sonoma State University; Rabbi Leah Sudran, spiritual leader of Congregation B'nai Israel in Petaluma; and Marianne Ware, creative writing instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College. Moderator will be Anne Goldman, professor of 19th- and 20th-century literature at SSU.

Zara Gardner will lead story telling for children beginning at 12:15 p.m.

For information, call (707) 528-4222.