Shalom Hartford "Rossi"

Pat Kazakoff interviews Chef Rossi on her life as a pink rocker who spends 2 years living in crown heights with a lubovitch rabbi. Her life is changed by a meeting with the rebbe. Fast forward, she is a published author, playwright and voted as best wedding caterer by The Knot
Chef Rossi will be interviewed by Jacques Lamarre on Tuesday, October 29th at 7:00pm at Playhouse on Park
Get ready to rock, rage and plotz when Charter Oak Cultural Center brings Rossi to Playhouse on Park to discuss, read and sign her acclaimed new memoir, The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews. She will be joined in conversation with local playwright Jacques Lamarre who wrote the stage adaptation of The Raging Skillet, Rossi’s previous memoir chronicling her life as New York’s wildest caterer.
The evening will include readings from Rossi’s stage adaptation of Punk Rock Queen... performed by actor, educator and playwright Julia B. Rosenblatt.
The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews is Rossi’s wild, queer coming-of-age story. She was taught only to aspire to marry a nice Jewish boy and to be a good kosher Jewish girl. At sixteen she flowers into a rebellious punk-rock rule-breaker who runs away to seek adventure. Her freedom is cut short when her parents kidnap her and place her with a Chasidic rabbi-a “cult buster” known for “reforming”
wayward Jewish girls- in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
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