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An Evening with Amanda Gurwitch

When: November 17, 2026 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Miami Beach JCC
4221 PInetree Dr.
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Organizer: Daniel Reed
Contact: Daniel Reed at [email protected] (305) 534-3206
Cost: $25/$18 MBJCC Members
Summary: Please join us on Tuesday, November 17 at 7:30 PM for an evening with Amanda Gurwitch, actress and author of the memoir The End of My Life is Killing Me. Admission includes the book.
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2026-11-17 19:30:00 2026-11-17 21:00:00 America/New_York An Evening with Amanda Gurwitch Please join us on Tuesday, November 17 at 7:30 PM for an evening with Amanda Gurwitch, actress and author of the memoir The End of My Life is Killing Me. Admission includes the book. (http://jewishmiami.org/events/an_evening_with_amanda_gurwitch) Miami Beach JCC Daniel Reed [email protected]

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New York Times best selling author and actress, Amanda Gurwitch discusses her memoir - The End of My Life is Killing Me - a candid, funny and deeply moving account of living with Stage 4 cancer.
ANNABELLE GURWITCH is a New York Times bestselling author of six books, and two-time Thurber Prize finalist whose books include You're Leaving When? a Thurber Prize Finalist and a New York Times Favorite Book for Healthy Living and the New York Times Bestseller I See You Made an Effort. Her writing appears in The New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, Hadassah Magazine, and The Boston Globe amongst other publications. Gurwitch was the longtime co-host of Dinner & a Movie on TBS, an NPR commentator, she was in too many tv shows and movies to name, but she fell into a coma on Seinfeld, didn't die in Michael Bay's Ambulance, she made Candace Bergen's Top 3 list of fired secretaries on Murphy Brown, and as Rabbi Gurwitch on Better Things, she Bat Mitzvahed Academy Award winner Mikey Madison. She performs with The Moth Mainstage.

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