JEWISH book arts FAIR 34th Annual

October 29 – November 12, 2006

Underwritten by The Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation The Jewish Community Center of Funded by The Jewish Community Center of Houston’s Patrons of the Arts • OPEN TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY 5601 South Braeswood Houston, 77096 713-729-3200 • www.jcchouston.org Bookstore Hours 2006 Jewish Book & Arts Fair Steering Committee SUN. - THU. 10:00 A.M. - 10:00 P.M. Chair Co-Chair FRI. 10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. Susan Farb Morris Susan Takiff Schneider SAT. 7:30 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. Arts and Culture Children Books Patron Campaign Steering Committee and Programs Terry Cominsky Book signing after each program Bobbi Samuels, Chair Ali Katz Bunny Radoff Patron Events Book Club Liaison Lauri Sack Stella Blumenthal ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE Barbara Marcus Carol Samet RECOMMENDED Donna Frankoff Bookstore Memorial Lecture Program ONLINE: Volunteer Managers David Bell Norri Leder Evelyn Ballard Daniel Musher Linda Chess Films or Louise Kershman Barbara Winthrop Rose Program Volunteers IN PERSON: Ruth Morris Bettina Siegel Marian Daum Bonnie Cohen Visit the JCC Information Desk Sheila Sack Cynthia Stetzer Hospitality or come to the box office 30 minutes prior June Pool Publicity to the start of a program. Beverly Sufian Glenda Waldman Hosts or Book Selection Dita Dafny Sponsors BY PHONE: Barbara Lindenberg Shifra Gardner Karen Bodner Purchase your tickets by calling 713.551.7255 Brochure Leah Lax Lisa Estes Nancy Parkans Ehrenkranz Annette Rosen Arlyne Gimble PURCHASE A SERIES TICKET Susan Altschuler Sue Goott FOR ADMISSION TO ALL Jill Reichman BOOK & ARTS FAIR PROGRAMS Music Ahuva Terk Use one of the three Janice Rubin options mentioned above. $44 JCC Members/$64 Public $5 Discount for Seniors/Students Jewish Community Center $1 Discount for seniors & students on single tickets President Arts and Culture Assistant Development Director Nancy Lerner Bethany Daniels Shapiro Debra Shniderson Unless otherwise specified Executive Vice President Bookstore Manager Marketing Manager Book & Arts Fair authors and special presentations Jerry Wische Barbara Lindenberg Melissa Gordon take place in the I.W. Marks Theatre Center Associate Executive Director and the Oshman Gymnasium Dance Director Stuart Raynor Public Relations at the Jewish Community Center Maxine Silberstein Helaine Brochstein Joe Weingarten Building Program Director Assistant Dance Director Development Assistant Milton Levit Family Campus Arts and Culture Marilyn Hassid Linda Gomez Leigh Savage 5601 South Braeswood Arts and Culture Program Theatre Manager Communications Coordinator Coordinator Jerry Lynch Jenna Ayzenshtat Our Thanks to our Corporate Sponsors Jennifer Handy

Sponsoring Organizations

American Jewish Committee • American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) • American Society for Technion Anti-Defamation League • B & P One/B & P Connections of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Robert M. Beren Academy • Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance Camp Young Judaea - Texas • Chevra Kadisha • Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Congregation Beth El • Congregation Beth Israel Brotherhood • Congregation Beth Israel Sisterhood Congregation Beth Rambam • Congregation Beth Yeshurun Brotherhood • Congregation Beth Yeshurun Sisterhood Congregation Beth Yeshurun Young Adults/Young Couples • Congregation Brith Shalom Adult Education Committee Congregation Brith Shalom Sisterhood • Congregation Emanu El Sisterhood • Congregation Jewish Community North Congregation Or Ami • Congregation Shaar Hashalom Sisterhood • Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest Chabad Lubavitch Outreach of Houston • The Emery/Weiner School • Holocaust Museum Houston Houston Chapter of Hadassah • Houston Council of Jewish Holocaust Survivors • Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism The official hotel for the Houston Friends of Yiddish • Houston Hillel • Houston Kashruth Association • Inprint • Initiative for Jewish Women 2006 Book & Arts Fair Jewish Family Service • The Jewish Gay and Lesbian Social Group• Jewish Feminist Reading Group Jewish Information Center of Houston • Meyerland Minyan • Monday Dialogues Eden Capital/The Newar Family Foundation National Council of Jewish Women – Greater Houston Section • The Nicole Suchowiecky Foundation of GHCF Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services • Six Mothers • Temple Beth Torah Jewish Community Center United Orthodox Synagogues Adult Education Committee • United Orthodox Synagogues Sisterhood PATRONS West Houston Lodge of B’nai B’rith • Women’s Division of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston OF THE ARTS Yiddish Vinkel • Young Israel of Houston Thank you to our Day Chairs Marsha Abramson • Bernice Blum & Steven Miller • Karen Krinsky Collman • Beverly Fanarof • Sharon Kagan Haya Kowenski • Marilyn Leiman • Ellen Leventhal • Sheryl Levin • Esther Levine Ilana Maidenberg-Bell • Ruth Morris • Cookie Portnoy • Ruth Rabie Naomi Rosner • Sheila Sack • Lisa Torry • Ellen Tractenberg • Phyllis Turkel • Gayle Waldman Thank you to our Set-Up Committee Hoffer Furniture Janice Aronowitz • Martha Barvin • Sandy Block • Stella Blumenthal • Ellen DeLap • Margie Fields • Arza Funk Amira Reiter • Shelley Roseman • Marci Baker Turrin • Mignon Wolf The Jewish Herald-Voice JTA (www.jta.org) As of print deadline. 34th Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair

HOUSTON JEWISH film festival

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29 FILM SHIRLEY & BILL MORGAN FAMILY MEMORIAL A Cantor’s Tale Dedication Ceremony 2:00 P.M. 5:30 P.M. Join the family for the formal dedication of the USA 2005, 95 min., English Bill and Shirley Morgan Wall of Remembrance Director: Erik Greenberg Anjou located in the lobby of the JCC. Everyone is welcome to attend. Presented in cooperation with the Houston Jewish Film Festival This year’s Houston Jewish Film Festival favorite, A Cantor’s Tale, Salute to Houston Authors is a loving tribute to the Golden Age when renowned cantors made 6:15 P.M. best-selling recordings and attracted followers from miles around Join Houston authors at a wine reception to celebrate their to hear their sacred cantillations. The story follows the journey of contributions to literacy, literature, and the world of books. Jack Mendelson, the streetwise son of a deli owner, Shmooze with Rabbi Judy Abrams, Marjorie Arsht, Dan Gordon, whose mother’s passion for chazzanut predestined Jack and his Willie Isaacs, Florence Kuznetz, Ken Olan, Bill Morgan, brother to follow this wondrous path. Today, Cantor Mendelson Geoffrey Morris, Rabbi Avi Schulman, Annette Schwartz, continues to connect cantors in training, his students, and and Rabbi Jack Segal, just some of the “Houston Stars” anyone else interested to the great vocal traditions of Eastern who’ll be signing their books. European sacred music. After the film, sing “chazzanus” with Free the film’s star, Cantor Jack Mendelson! Filmmaker in attendance. Underwritten by the Stein Family/Triple S Steel OPENING NIGHT Sponsored by Rosita and Albert Gaon Free to Series Ticket Holders • $6 JCC Member • $8 Public Andy Borowitz Rise Routenberg 8:00 P.M. and Barbara Wasser The Borowitz Report 4:30 P.M. Dubbed one of America’s leading Divine Kosher Cuisine comic voices by , the multi-talented Andy Whether you’re cooking for one or 201, Borowitz has earned a reputation for Divine Kosher Cuisine brings kosher a no-holds-barred take on all things home cooking into the 21st century with a flair and confidence famous – and infamous. Author of that will entice the novice, intrigue the gourmet, challenge the four best-selling humor books adventuresome and delight the traditional. Featuring 350+ easy-to- including The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers, follow recipes organized by courses and occasions, this unique Who Moved My Soap? The CEO’s Guide to Surviving in resource draws on 34 years of culinary experience and a treasure Prison, and his latest, The Republican Playbook: Dirty trove of recipes tested, improved and perfected by national award- Tricks, Distortions and Other Keys to Victory, his writing winning As You Like It Kosher Catering of Schenectady, New York. has appeared in the pages of , The New York Sponsored by Susan and Stanley Schneider Times and Vanity Fair. Fans know him for his award-winning Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public political satire on NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” CNN’s “90 Second Pop,” and his daily Internet column, “The Borowitz Report.” Come see for yourself why Borowitz, a former president of the Gumbo Harvard Lampoon, won the National Press Club’s first-ever 11:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. humor award as the King of Satire and all things political. at the Café at the J Underwritten by A sure-fire recipe for good times. Eden Capital/The Newar Family Foundation Enjoy Gumbo’s delicious mix of The Pulaski-Rauch Fund New Orleans jazz and blues. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $15 Public

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 30 Rabbi Sidney Schwarz 8:00 P.M. Mother/Daughter Monday Judaism and Justice The Jewish Passion to Repair the World Perri Klass and Why is it that are so involved in causes Sheila Solomon Klass dedicated to justice, equality, human rights and 12:00 Noon peace? Are these trends influenced by religion, history, sociology, or something else? In this fascinating analysis of Jewish issues Every Mother is a Daughter and identity, Rabbi Sidney Schwarz explores a community torn The Neverending Quest for Success, between its instinct for self-preservation and a desire to serve as Inner Peace and a Really Clean Kitchen an ethical “light to the nations.” A respected author, Rabbi Schwarz (Recipes & Knitting Patterns Included) is founder and president of PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Remember the first moment you heard your mother’s voice Leadership and Values. coming out of your own mouth? But did that moment of recog- Sponsored by Sylvia and Aubrey Farb nition prompt you to engage your mother in a discussion Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public about how she shaped your career, your family life and your sense of identity? In their alternately poignant and funny book, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31 pediatrician/author Perri Klass and her mother/college professor Sheila Solomon Klass explore the joys, pains, love, resentment Simcha Weinstein and respect that universally impact maternal legacy in a 8:00 P.M. conversation recommended for every mother and daughter. Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture and Values Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public Shaped the Comic Book Superhero It’s a fact: early comic book creators were almost BOOK&ARTS FAIR all Jewish. As children of immigrants, they spent their lives trying T Cooper to escape the second-class mentality forced on them by the outside 6:15 P.M. Pick world. As a result, their superheroes mirrored their own desire to Lipshitz Six, or A Community Read live two lives – privately, as a Jew, and publicly, as an American. Two Angry Blondes a novel Up, Up, and Oy Vey! is the uncanny story behind the creation of the planet’s most famous superheroes and an inspiring account of In her sophomore effort, T Cooper touches on the birth, Jewish and mythical origins of the comic book industry. family dynamics that many struggle with and few are able to resolve. Traveling from Russian pogrom to middle- Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public class tract living in Texas, this wild and unforgettably poignant immigrant story makes the most of lost and found identity in the Simcha Weinstein appears at Congregation Beth El November 1 • 7:00 P.M. • 3900 Raoul Wallenberg Lane, Missouri City mix of modern America. Blending themes of historical fiction, gender, identity and family into a tour-de-force about where we come from and our individual legacy, this engrossing, irreverent AUDITORY EQUIPMENT NOW AVAILABLE book is a Jewish American original. FOR HEARING IMPAIRED With an intriguing Houston family connection, Lipshitz Six is If you need assistance in hearing clearly, equipment is this year’s Book & Arts Fair Pick. Join the Community Read, now available to enhance your ability to hear the program. presented by the JCC’s Journeys…Footsteps into Jewish Culture. Just ask at the Box Office when you arrive and it Buy Lipshitz Six at Essence, the Judaica shop at the JCC or will be provided for you with courtesy and sensitivity. online at www.jcchouston.org and receive your free ticket to this Made possible through the generosity of program that includes a pre-talk reception with the author and The Center for ENT priority placement in the autograph queue at the book signing. Doctors Weber, Moses, Hung, and Powitzky Goldstaub Community Special Needs Fund Sponsored by Barbie and Jeffrey Horowitz Sharla and Henry Wertheimer Family Philanthropic Fund Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Island of Hope Living Voices – A Live Theatrical Performance for Photographs by Religious and Day Schools Matt Mendelsohn Leah, a ten-year-old Jewish girl growing up in a In the Footsteps of The Lost Russian shtetl, escapes to America with her family. Opening Reception 5:30 P.M. After a long and risky journey, Leah alone is detained at Ellis Island, confronted by fears and obstacles that she can’t comprehend. Underwritten by a bequest of the Kaye and Sonia Marvins Trust Presented in cooperation with the Bureau of Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Daniel Mendelsohn 6:15 P.M. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 The Lost Ruth Andrew Ellenson A Search for Six of Six Million 1:00 P.M. at the Merfish Center, 9000 S. Rice For five years, Daniel Mendelsohn traveled the The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt globe searching for an answer to the question he had first asked as a boy: What really happened to his great uncle In a laugh-out-loud, pull-no-punches collection of Shmiel and his family during the Holocaust? In The Lost: A essays by some of today’s top Jewish women Search for Six of Six Million, he weaves together his startling writers, learn what it means – culturally, discoveries about the past, family secrets and Judaism itself in a spiritually and emotionally – to be a Jewish woman in today’s haunting real-life mystery as historically important as it is beautifully “What will they think?” world. Have you ever heard your written. By turns heart-breaking and life-affirming, the book grandmother’s biological clock? Would your own mother out you reiterates the fundamental need for new voices to keep Holocaust at her Yiddish Club? This entertaining, anything-goes book covers remembrance alive over the course of the coming generations. topics from Jewish guilt to things your rabbi warned never to discuss in public. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public bestseller. Optional lunch at 12:30 P.M. $8 prepaid with reservation made by David Brog Oct. 31. Call 713-729-3200 ext. 3231. 8:00 P.M. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public Standing With Israel Why Christians Support the Jewish State OPERA Are Christian Zionists a threat to Jewish survival Der Kaiser von Atlantis or are they today’s righteous gentiles? In his 7:30 P.M. provocative new book, Capitol Hill veteran David Brog confronts at Congregation Beth Israel, 5600 North Braeswood Jewish discomfort with the deepening Christian embrace of Israel Written by Holocaust victim Viktor Ullmann (with a libretto by and the Jewish people, concluding that this support is not only a Peter Kein) and conducted by James Conlon, Music Director of pragmatic necessity, but a genuine expression of Christian the Los Angeles Opera, this chamber work in four scenes is an solidarity without ulterior motives. Shattering long-held myths, he allegory about the horrors of Nazism and the trials of the takes the reader on a historical journey that delves into the Jewish people during the Second World War. An example of foundation and reasons why Christian Zionists feel so strongly “entartete musik” – music suppressed by the Third Reich – this about Israel, unveiling a new paradigm for an essential Jewish- haunting opera is considered to be Ullmann’s masterpiece. Christian pro-Israel alliance. Presented in partnership with the Houston Grand Opera and in Sponsored by association with Holocaust Museum Houston, Congregation Paula and Irving Pozmantier Beth Israel and KUHF 88.7 FM. Sheila and Gordon Sack Tickets • $36 • $72 (Limited $18 obstructed view tickets available) Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 All the Bar. . . It’s Date Night at the J! without the Mitzvah! A truly righteous event Comedy, film, a little wine and a lot of laughs! 8:00 P.M. Josh Frank Catie Lazarus fool the world 8:00 P.M. the oral history of a band called PIXIES The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes Roger Bennett Talk about comic timing. In The Complete Bar Mitzvah Disco Idiot’s Guide to Jokes, Catie Lazarus, fellow 20’s and 30’s, this is the program for you. In this comedians and some of the country’s top totally RAD evening, hear the story of a generation motivational speakers share hilarious quips, jokes and real through shared culture, music, and life cycle advice on how to keep your own audience in laugh-out-loud events. Both Frank and Bennett, in separate stitches. Featured in Hadassah Magazine as one of four tributes, speak about young dreamers and innovators that in Jewish female comedian rising stars, Lazarus was awarded their own quirky ways, created everlasting and shared memories. “Best Comedy Writer” by Emerging Comics of New York, has performed alongside Wendy Liebman and written for Time Out $5 with RSVP to www.jcchouston.org or 713.551.7255 New York, the Forward and countless publications. Did you $10 at the door hear the one about the one-handed mohel? Presented in cooperation with Sponsored by Briggs and Veselka Betsy and Ed Schreiber FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $15 Public EllynAnne Geisel 12:00 Noon FILM The Apron Book Rashevski’s Tango Making, Wearing and Sharing 9:40 P.M. a Bit of Cloth and Comfort Belgium, , Luxembourg, 2003, 97 min., Today’s hottest collectible, aprons take us back to French and Hebrew w/ English subtitles the very essence of our domestic lives. The Director: Sam Garbarski Apron Book reminds us of everything we once loved about aprons, celebrates the spirit of the men and women Presented in cooperation with the Houston Jewish Film Festival who wore them, and even shows us how to make them to enjoy Family matriarch Rosa Rashevski believed that a tango was as today. Each colorful page offers a delightful combination of good as chicken soup and better than organized religion. Her photographs, recipes and tips for collecting and preserving these death at 81 sets off identity crises and soul-searchings among textile artifacts, plus excerpts from the countless inspirational three generations of Rashevski’s, from Shoah survivors to stories Geisel gathered collecting 300+ aprons from all over intermarried couples and non-observant Jews. A sophisticated, America. Be sure to wear your favorite apron! witty and affectionate look at modern European Jewish identity. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $6 JCC Member • $8 Public Purchase a ticket to Catie Lazarus and attend the film for free. Become a JCC Patron of the Arts and receive a free Series Ticket when you opt for the benefits. Jewish Community Center Save Money on Programs PATRONS Buy a Book & Arts Fair Series Ticket OF THE ARTS www. .org

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Diane Levin Rauchwerger Stanley Hordes 11:45 A.M. Ages 2-5 11:00 A.M. Dinosaur on Hanukkah A mischievous dinosaur visits a little boy on To the End of the Earth A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico Hanukkah and causes a commotion as he lights candles, makes latkes and plays dreidel. Join this While working as New Mexico State Historian, playful dino in a rousing holiday romp. Librarian Rauchwerger’s Stanley Hordes heard stories of medieval Hispanos who lit candles highly animated presentation introduces children to all of her on Friday night and abstained from eating pork. Migrating to the characters with adorable puppets who seem to appear from New World to escape persecution, they eventually settled in New nowhere—keep your eyes on her apron…it’s very large and Mexico and the Southwest, with a rich Sephardic legacy. Hordes very full! explores the remarkable story of these Crypto-Jews and the Free tenuous preservation of their rituals and traditions over the past five hundred years. Reconstructing the history of a people who tried to leave no documentary record, he writes a compelling Ellen Leventhal and Ellen Rothberg work that inspires and enlightens us about how culture survives. 1:30 P.M. Ages 5-8 Underwritten by The Maurice Amado Foundation for Sephardic Heritage Programs Don’t Eat the Bluebonnets Sponsored by Family Tree DNA/Bennett Greenspan and Max Blankfeld Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public Growing up in New Jersey, Ellen Leventhal didn’t dream of bluebonnet fields, but she did dream of writing books. Ellen Rothberg wrote and illustrated her first children’s book at seven. Joining forces in Houston, their collaboration, Don’t Eat the Bluebonnets, is a delightful Sunday, November 5 journey with a sassy cow named Sue Ellen who Programs and activities for ages 2 - 92 loves the taste of bluebonnets. Learn respect for and SEPHARDIC HERITAGE DAY nature and others in this winner of the ABC’s Children’s Picture authors, storytellings, crafts, and tasty delicacies Book Competition. See Page 13 for details Free

FunkeyMonkeys Laura C. Moser 10:00 A.M. Ages 2-6 2:00 P.M. and 4:30 P.M. Family Performance Creative Collaborations A Writers’ Workshop Combining the best of “Seinfeld,” For 8th-10th grade students and the Wiggles®, the FunkeyMonkeys is a supergroup Teen novelist Laura Moser grew up in Houston where she attended of musical, monkey-kid-ults who Congregation Emanu El and St. John’s School. A graduate of play their own instruments and make up stories on the spot with Amherst College, she is the author of a Bette Davis biography and every audience. Led by Joshua Sitron, former composer for the co-author with Lauren Mechling of the comic novels for teens Nickelodeon’s “Dora the Explorer,” the FunkeyMonkeys delight, The Rise and Fall of a Tenth-Grade Social Climber, All Q, No entertain and connect with kids, their parents and grandparents. A: More Tales of a Tenth-Grade Social Climber, and the soon- Last season’s CD, Jewish FunkeyMonkeys, offers seriously funked to-be-released Foreign Exposure. She has also written for Slate, up tunes behind a children’s chorus with such great takes as Newsday, and . Often asked “What’s it like to Funky “Fiddler on the Roof,” Hip Hop “Hatikva,” and Reggae “Ma write with another person?” Moser leads this “chain writing” Nish Tanah.” exercise, where students discover for themselves how unpredictable—and hilarious—creative collaborations can be. Underwritten by the Paull Families Barbara and Mark Paull, Emily, Josh and Lexie Paull & $10 includes writing materials and a signed book by the author Crista, Jonathan, Julia and Jenna Paull www.jcchouston.org to pre-register $8 JCC Member • $12 Public • $10 and $14 at the door 7 34th Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair

HOUSTON JEWISH film festival

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Rabbi Daniel Gordis Ever Again 6:15 P.M. FILM Coming Together, Coming Apart 2:00 P.M. A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel

Israel, 2005, 100 min., English Underscoring the vast human toll inherent in the complex and often incomprehensible Israeli- Director: Richard Trank Palestinian conflict, Rabbi Daniel Gordis paints a Presented in cooperation with the personal, timely and relevant picture detailing the passion, anger Houston Jewish Film Festival and pain in the lives of Israelis today. Interweaving Israel’s A compelling examination of the resurgence of violent anti- pullout from Gaza with his newly-drafted daughter’s march into Semitism and terrorism threatening all of Western civilization, an unknown future, Gordis peers deeply into the soul of a Ever Again exposes the dangerous Islamic extremism and culture country where the more people appear bound together, the more of death impacting attacks in Madrid and London. Taking a hard completely they’re torn apart. Author of If a Place Can Make look at the new Neo-Nazism in and shifts from anti- You Cry, and Does the World Need Jews, he captures the hope, Semitism of the right to anti-Semitism of the extreme left, it raises spirit and details that explain the larger meaning of all Israeli lives. disturbing questions about our future. Among others, Harvard Sponsored by University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz is prominently Beverly and Gerald Fanarof featured in this film. Ruth and Israel Gottesman Ann and Stephen Kaufman Free to Series Ticket Holders • $6 JCC Member • $8 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public

Israel Teen Programs Fair Ellen Frankel 8:00 P.M. 3:30 – 8:30 P.M. Folktales of the Jews Volume 1 Come learn about a variety of summer, semester and year- Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion long Israel experiences. Meet trip providers and speak with teens who have recently returned from Israel. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories Alan Dershowitz shared by families from around the world. Seventy-one tales have 4:30 P.M. been selected from the archives to create Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion, the first volume in Folktales of the What Israel Means to Me Jews, a five-volume series and the most important collection of By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Jewish folktales ever published. A monument to a rich but Scholars, Politicians and Journalists vanishing oral tradition, this treasure house of Jewish lore has Donna Frankoff Memorial Lecture remained largely unavailable to the entire world, until now. Edited by Frankel, the Editor-in-Chief of The Jewish Publication In this new book, 80 prominent writers, scholars and journalists – Society, the book is an invaluable resource for rabbis, educators, some Jewish, some not – share insights and thoughts about the storytellers and anyone who loves an engaging tale. meaning of Israel in their lives. Contributors include dauntless supporters Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman, the Reverend Underwritten by The Maurice Amado Foundation Program in Pat Robertson and actress Natalie Portman, as well as writers Sephardic Jewish Heritage. who oppose many of the country’s policies (like Shulamit Aloni Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public and Michael Lerner), to round out the conversation. Ever vigilant in his personal and powerful support for Israel, Have your dinners waiting and ready for you! Professor Dershowitz’s latest work is, as always, a challenging and thought-provoking read. Delicious new menu options Underwritten by Amegy Bank of Texas The Donna Frankoff Book Fair Endowment Fund go to www.jcchouston.org Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $15 Public for details on how to order pre-paid dinners 8 Sunday, October 29 – Sunday, November 12

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Rabbi Joseph Telushkin Denise Epstein 8:00 P.M. 12:00 Noon A Code of Jewish Ethics Suite Francaise Volume I: You Shall Be Holy Ukrainian-born Irene Nemirovsky was a This vast volume of the first major code of Jewish successful writer living in Paris when she was ethics distills more than 3,000 years of laws and deported to Auschwitz in 1942 and died a month suggestions on how to improve one’s character to become more later at age 39. Two years earlier, she’d begun honest, decent and just. With a goal of restoring ethics to its Suite Francaise, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in central role in Judaism, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin offers compelling which she herself would become a victim. She had completed examples from the Torah, the Talmud, rabbinic commentaries and two parts of the epic, saved in handwritten manuscripts her contemporary stories to help experts and ordinary readers translate daughters would take with them through hiding and freedom. Jewish learning into ethical behavior. Applicable to Jews and non- Sixty-four years later, Nemirovsky’s literary masterpiece chronicles Jews alike, the book speaks to everyone concerned with leading a the Nazi invasion of Paris and the tragedies that ensued. virtuous and meaningful life. Sponsored by Sponsored by Lorraine and Sid Brown Susan and Jack Lapin Deborah Kaplan Mitzi Shure and Jerry Wische Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $15 Public

Leslie Goldman TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 4:30 P.M. Dara Horn Locker Room Diaries 6:15 P.M. The Naked Truth about Women, Body Image and Re-imagining The World to Come the “Perfect” Body A million-dollar painting by Marc Chagall is stolen What woman doesn’t experience moments of from a museum by Benjamin Ziskind, a loner self-doubt when it comes to her body? In her fascinating, tell-all who believes the painting used to hang on a wall locker room confidential, Leslie Goldman reveals what women of his deceased parents’ living room. As he and his sister evade really think about their bodies, how driven they are in the quest the police, they encounter family stories about love, loss and for perfection and for many, the long road to self-acceptance. betrayal that shape their future and “the world to come.” Prize- Blending expert opinion with wonderfully intimate, often hilarious winning author Dara Horn interweaves mystery, romance, confidences, Locker Room Diaries will inspire anyone who’s ever folklore, theology and history into a spellbinding tale that travels experienced the highs and lows of our beauty-obsessed culture. from Soviet Russia to New Jersey and Vietnam. A New York Times Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public Book Review and Book-of-the-Month Club Readers Selection. Mother/Daughter Monday Iris Krasnow Sponsored by Susie and David Askanese Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public 6:15 P.M. I Am My Mother’s Daughter Making Peace with Mom – Before It’s Too Late Become a JCC Patron of the Arts and With many women living past 80, adult daughters may be embroiled with their mothers well past the receive a free Series Ticket when time their own hair turns gray. Since “you can’t divorce your you opt for the benefits. Jewish Community Center mother or kiss and make up at her funeral,” living longer PATRONS means there is more time to make peace with each other. OF THE ARTS Through both joyful and wrenching anecdotes by more than 100 adult daughters, I Am My Mother’s Daughter offers fresh prescriptions on how to come to terms with the one woman who loves you more than any other. Due to circumstances beyond our control, programs are subject to change. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public 9 34th Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair

NOVEMBER TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 First Annual Shirley and Bill Morgan Family Gary Shteyngart Holocaust Memorial Program 8:00 P.M. Absurdistan: a novel Tom Reiss 8:00 P.M. From the critically-acclaimed, best-selling author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, comes The Orientalist the uproarious and poignant story of one very fat Solving the Mystery of a man and one very small country. Misha Vainberg, Strange and Dangerous Life the 325-pound son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, wants Part history, part cultural biography and nothing more than to live in the Bronx with his hot Latina girlfriend. part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of When his gangster father in Russia murders an Oklahoma , a Jew who escaped the Russian Revolution businessman, all hopes of a U.S. visa are lost. Will the tiny, oil-rich in a camel caravan, transformed himself into a Muslim prince, nation of Absurdistan sell Misha a Belgian passport? Through this and as "Essad Bey" and "," became a best-selling not so tongue-in-cheek take on third world countries, politics and author in . Author Tom Reiss spent five years family, Leningrad native Gary Shteyngart once again confirms he tracking down police records, love letters and deathbed is one of the most talented and entertaining writers of his generation. diaries, caught up in encounters as dramatic, surreal and often Sponsored by heartbreaking as his subject’s life. Harvard graduate and former Karol and Daniel Musher student of the Creative Writing Program Bobbi and Vic Samuels studying with the late writer , Reiss writes Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public about politics and culture for The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Sponsored by Shirley and Bill Morgan Jim Keen Susan and David Morris 6:15 P.M. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public Inside Intermarriage Become a patron of the Arts (Gold level and above) and attend A Christian Partner’s Perspective a dinner with Tom Reiss. www.jcchouston.org On Raising a Jewish Family It’s no secret that interfaith marriages are THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 complicated, especially when both partners are Jeffrey Goldberg connected to their own religious faiths and communities. Using a healthy dose of humor and insights gleaned from his own 6:15 P.M. experience, Jim Keen provides practical advice and solutions on Prisoners how to give children a clear Jewish identity while maintaining a A Muslim and a Jew Across the comfort level for both Christian and Jewish parents. Including Middle East Divide seasoned perspectives from professional counselors and advisors, In 1990, Jeffrey Goldberg was an American Jew Inside Intermarriage is relevant for individuals of all ages and serving as a guard in Israel’s largest prison. His prisoner, Rafiq, faiths. was a rising leader in the PLO. Prisoners is the incredible Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public account of Goldberg’s life in the harsh desert prison, his travels among Islamic fundamentalists and his extraordinary relationship Lev Raphael with Rafiq, that continues to this day. Now an award-winning correspondent for The New Yorker, Goldberg paints a riveting, 7:30 P.M. impassioned portrait about the truths that lie buried within the At JCC West Houston animosities of the Middle East. 1120 Dairy Ashford 281.556.5567 Sponsored by Terry and Martin Cominsky Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public Edith and Bob Zinn Program description appears on Page 11. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Flamenco Sepharad Lev Raphael 8:30 P.M. 8:00 P.M. With their uniquely passionate program of Secret Anniversaries of the Heart music, song and dance from the Sephardic New & Selected Stories and Andalousian worlds, Gerard Edery and Flamenco Sepharad present a fiery, Writing a Jewish Life rhythmic performance you won’t want to miss. Commanding songs Lev Raphael’s Secret Anniversaries of the in over a dozen languages, these gifted musicians interpret both Heart unites the best stories from the internationally acclaimed ancient and modern repertoire, combining stylistic authority with Dancing on Tisha B’Av, with 12 new stories, including one never immense creative flair. Emotive vocals, world beat percussion, before published. In his moving collection, he speaks to the Spanish dance and oriental timbres make Flamenco Sepharad’s richness and variety of faith, family, history, sexuality, what it masterful arrangements a must-see musical experience. means to be a Jew and what it means to be a man. He takes us Underwritten by The Maurice Amado Foundation into uncharted literary territory with wonderfully flawed characters Free to Series Ticket Holders • $15 JCC Member • $20 Public living with passion and pain. In his memoir, Writing a Jewish Life, Raphael comes to terms with his sexuality, his spirituality and his calling as a writer. Achingly honest about what it means SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 to be a gay son of Holocaust survivors, he transcends the Rabbi Byron Sherwin boundaries of race, gender and ethnicity, to remind us of our 11:00 A.M. collective, shared humanness. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism The Cubs and the Kabbalist: How a SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Kabbalah-Master Helped the Chicago Cubs Win Their First World Series Since 1908 Family Concert A primer for those seeking a comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to Jewish mysticism, Rabbi Byron Sherwin’s Kabbalah Shirlala provides a scholarly work organized around five models of Jewish 7:00 P.M. mystical theology and experience. The Cubs and the Kabbalist tells the story of Rabbi Jay Loeb, who learns that his wife’s erratic Delight to the sounds behavior is tied to the hapless Chicago Cubs, whose dim and inspiration of prospects for the pennant have compromised her work, family life Shirlala, an outrageously and health. When the rabbi secretly performs a kabbalistic ritual hip band whose in Wrigley Field that magically alters their luck, the Cubs and his innovative Jewish programs pair deeply wife commission him to use his knowledge to help the players rooted tradition with contemporary develop the spiritual strength they need to prevail – all the way to Jewish thought. A Jewish musician, the World Series. educator and performer with a unique, high-energy style, Shira Kline and her Sponsored by Michael Richker and Vicky Pravda talented trio combine teaching, Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public storytelling and performing to create a rich musical experience for children and adults alike. Prepare to sing and dance – LOOKING WHERE TO SHOP AFTER Shirlala is contagious! THE BOOK & ARTS FAIR? Underwritten by the Goldye and Sam Spain Fund MON – WED 11 A.M. – 6 P.M. THU 11 A.M. – 8 P.M. KS Sponsored by Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market FRI & SUN 11 A.M. – 3 P.M. BOO BOOKSBOOKS JUDAICAJUDAICA MUSICMUSIC GIFTSUSICkids $5 JCC Member • $7 Public SAT CLOSED M Located at the JCC • 5601 S. Braeswood

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Rabbi Irwin Kula Jeffrey Shandler 6:15 P.M. 2:00 P.M. Yearnings Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life Adventures in Yiddishland Postvernacular Language & Culture A provocative religious leader and respected spiritual iconoclast, Rabbi Irwin Kula has inspired For Jeffrey Shandler, Associate Professor of Jewish thousands of people across the country using ancient Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, “Yiddishland” is an wisdom in ways that speak to modern life. In Yearnings: imaginary realm defined by the use of Yiddish, a “portable sense Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, this cutting-edge of place.” Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation thinker brings insights of tradition to challenges of the present to of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift help people live more fully. Merging ancient Jewish wisdom with from the daily language of millions to a postvernacular language contemporary insights that offer practical perspectives to everyday of an estimated one million Jews. Traversing the broad spectrum problems, Kula invites us to accept, even celebrate, our messy of people who engage in Yiddish in communities across America human experiences, so we may embrace the endless project of and the world, this lively book investigates the many contemp- building a rich life. orary uses of the language, and explains how yesterday’s Yiddish is today’s pop culture. Underwritten by The Rosita and Albert Gaon Jewish Heritage Fund In Loving Memory of Arturo Singer Sponsored by Houston Friends of Yiddish Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public CLOSING NIGHT Moodafaruka 11:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. Bryan Fogel and at the Café at the J Sam Wolfson 8:00 P.M. Mixing Flamenco, Middle Eastern, Spanish and Western motifs, Moodafaruka creates a tapestry Jewtopia of sound that is both familiar and new. The Chosen Book for the Chosen People Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson FILM were two struggling actor/ Forgiving Dr. Mengele writers in Hollywood. 4:30 P.M. Desperate to get a break, they created a one-act festival, for which they wrote and performed an original scene about a USA, 2005, 80 min., English gentile guy who wanted to marry a Jewish girl so he would Directors: Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh never have to make another decision. Over the next year, the duo took the concept of that ten-minute scene and turned it Presented in cooperation with the Houston Jewish Film Festival into a two-hour play. Jewtopia premiered in Los Angeles in Forgiving Dr. Mengele details the shocking act of forgiveness by May 2003. Eventually, Broadway came knocking. Playing to Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who along with her twin sister sold-out New York audiences since 2004, Jewtopia recouped its Miriam, were victims of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele’s cruel genetic entire initial investment in a record 16 weeks. Jewtopia: The experiments. The film follows Eva’s metamorphosis from Chosen Book for the Chosen People, explores the play’s embittered survivor to tireless advocate for reconciliation, and stereotypes, guilt and off-the-wall spirit in a hilarious book highlights her ideas about justice, revenge and – even in the face you’re sure to remember. Fogel and Wolfson will present a of passionate opposition from other survivors – the possibility of charming and witty book talk. Suffice it to say, their parents healing through forgiveness. are clearly kvelling! Free to Series Ticket Holders • $6 JCC Member • $8 Public Sponsored by Frank Crystal & Company/Joel Goldstein Olga Lara Due to circumstances beyond our control, programs are subject to change. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $15 Public 12 Sunday, October 29 – Sunday, November 12

Family Day Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006 Banan 9:15 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. Go as FREE* at th Meet e !

FunkeyMonkeys ...... 10:00 A.M. and 4:30 P.M. Ages 2-6 Family Performance

Dinosaur on Hanukkah...... 11:45 A.M. Ages 2-5 Diane Levin Rauchwerger

Don’t Eat the Bluebonnets . . . . 1:30 P.M. Ages 5-8 Ellen Leventhal and Ellen Rothberg

Creative Collaborations ...... 2:00 P.M. 8th-10th grade students Laura C. Moser A Writers’ Workshop

Israel Teen Programs Fair . . . . . 3:30 - 8:30 P.M

Sing-a-long with Nitsana Lazarus and her puppets Hear Sephardic Tales by Dan “Danté” Gordon

CONCERT • AUTHORS • STORYTELLING PUPPET SHOWS • CRAFTS

Fun Activities for the Whole Family Throughout the Day! Visit the Kids’ Korner Section in the JCC Bookstore Family Day is underwritten in loving memory of Oliver Lapin by his family and friends

FUNKYMONKEYS CONCERT Sponsored by Shari Riesenfeld/ Underwritten by the Paull Families Mad Science of Houston Barbara and Mark Paull, Emily, Josh and Lexie Paull & Crista, Jonathan, Julia and Jenna Paull The Maurice Amado Foundation * Family Day events are free and open to the public. FunkeyMonkey Concert Tickets are $8 JCC Member • $12 Public • $10/$14 at the door. Adult Programming ongoing throughout the day

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Calling all independent & readers and book clubs. BOOK ARTS FAIR In the Footsteps of The Lost Sign up & join in! OCTOBER 22 – DECEMBER 15, 2006 A CommunityPick Read T Cooper blends historical fiction, gender, For five years, former USA Today identity and family into a tour-de-force called photographer Matt Mendelsohn Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes a novel. traveled the world with his brother, “A blazing young writer. Funny, engrossing, Daniel, looking to unlock the mys- irreverent. I loved this book.” tery surrounding the deaths of six —Rona Jaffe, author of The Best of Everything family members in the Holocaust. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six “Cooper takes apart the usual Jewish heritage tale and themes Million, has been acclaimed as one of assimilation, touching them with postmodern parody and of the best books of the year. The Chagallesque folk magic.” —Publishers Weekly Houston JCC is proud to be the first stop for the accompanying photo exhibit, In the Footsteps of The Lost. T Cooper lecture and booksigning at the 34th Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair on Opening Reception with the artist Monday, October 30 at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, November 1, 2006 5:30 P.M. To participate in the Community Read Gallery Hours email [email protected]. Monday – Thursday • 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Purchase the book at Essence. . . the Judaica Shop at the JCC and receive a free ticket to T Cooper’s Book & Arts Fair Friday & Sunday • 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. program, including a private reception and priority Underwritten by a bequest of position in the book signing queue. the Kaye and Sonia Marvins Trust Jewish Community Center • 5601 S. Braeswood • 713.551.7255

All works available for purchase. This novel contains graphic language and adult subject matter

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Just when you thought it was over…… Rabbi Harold S. Kushner speaking on his newest book Overcoming Life’s Disappointments Monday, December 4 • 8:00 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center

From the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a new book about how to overcome the common difficulties of life. We learn how to meet disappointment with faith in ourselves and the future, and how to respond to heartbreak with understanding rather than bitterness and despair. A book of spiritual wisdom—as practical as it is inspirational. Harold S. Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, where he resides. He has been honored by the Christophers, a Roman Catholic organization, as one of the 50 people who have made the world a better place in the last half century, and by Religion in American Life as the “Clergyman of the Year.” Free to Book & Arts Fair Series Ticket Holders • $6 JCC Member • $8 Public Purchase tickets online at www.jcchouston.org or by calling 713-551-7255 Tickets on sale during the Book & Arts Fair in the bookstore.

The Jewish Community Center of Houston Book & Arts Fair is a member of the Jewish Book Fair Network. Thank you to the Jewish Book Council Director, Carolyn Starman Hessel, Joyce Lit and Miri Pomerantz. The following authors appear in cooperation with the JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL: Roger Bennett Josh Frank Jim Keen Rabbi Irwin Kula Rabbi Sidney Schwarz David Brog Jeffrey Goldberg Perri Klass Rabbi Harold Kushner Gary Shteyngart T Cooper Leslie Goldman Sheila Solomon Klass Daniel Mendelsohn Rabbi Joseph Telushkin Ruth Andrew Ellenson Stanley Hordes Iris Krasnow Diane Rauchwerger Barbara Wasser Bryan Fogel Dara Horn Rise Routenberg Sam Wolfson 14 34TH ANNUAL JEWISH BOOK & ARTS FAIR CALENDAR

Sunday, October 29 Friday, November 3 Tuesday, November 7 FILM - A Cantor’s Tale 2:00 P.M. EllynAnne Geisel 12:00 Noon Dara Horn 6:15 P.M. The Apron Book The World to Come Rise Routenberg & 4:30 P.M. Barbara Wasser Saturday, November 4 Gary Shteyngart 8:00 P.M. Divine Kosher Cuisine Catie Lazarus 8:00 P.M. Absurdistan: a novel Morgan Memorial 5:30 P.M. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes Wednesday, November 8 Wall Dedication FILM - Rashevski’s Tango 9:40 P.M. Jim Keen 6:15 P.M. Salute to Houston Authors 6:15 P.M. Inside Intermarriage Sunday, November 5 A Christian Partner’s Perspective on Raising a OPENING NIGHT Stanley Hordes 11:00 A.M. Jewish Family Andy Borowitz 8:00 P.M. To The End of the Earth Lev Raphael - 7:30 P.M. The Borowitz Report A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico at the JCC West Houston Monday, October 30 Family Day - Go Bananas at the J 1120 Dairy Ashford

Perri Klass and 12:00 Noon PERFORMANCE – Tom Reiss 8:00 P.M. Sheila Solomon Klass FunkeyMonkeys 10:00 A.M. & 4:30 P.M. The Orientalist Every Mother Is a Daughter The Neverending Quest for Success, Diane Levin Rauchwerger 11:45 A.M. Thursday, November 9 Inner Peace and a Really Clean Kitchen Dinosaur on Hanukkah Jeffrey Goldberg 6:15 P.M. T Cooper 6:15 P.M. Prisoners Ellen Leventhal and 1:30 P.M. Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes a novel A Muslim and a Jew Across Ellen Rothberg the Middle East Divide Rabbi Sidney Schwarz 8:00 P.M. Don’t Eat the Bluebonnets Judaism and Justice Lev Raphael 8:00 P.M. The Jewish Passion to Repair the World Laura C. Moser 2:00 P.M. Teen writers’ workshop Secret Anniversaries of the Heart Tuesday, October 31 New & Selected Stories FILM - Ever Again 2:00 P.M. Simcha Weinstein 8:00 P.M. Writing a Jewish Life Up, Up, and Oy Vey! Alan Dershowitz 4:30 P.M. Saturday, November 11 What Israel Means to Me Wednesday, November 1 By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, PERFORMANCE - Shirlala 7:00 P.M. PERFORMANCE - Living Voices 5:00 P.M. Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists Family Performance "Island of Hope" for students Rabbi Daniel Gordis 6:15 P.M. CONCERT – Art Opening 5:30 P.M. Coming Together, Coming Apart Flamenco Sepharad 8:30 P.M. In the Footsteps of The Lost A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel Sunday, November 12 Daniel Mendelsohn 6:15 P.M. Ellen Frankel 8:00 P.M. The Lost Folktales of the Jews Rabbi Byron Sherwin 11:00 A.M. A Search for Six of Six Million Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism The Cubs and Kabbalist: How a Kabbalah David Brog 8:00 P.M. Monday, November 6 Master Helped the Chicago Cubs Win Their Standing With Israel First World Series Since 1908 Why Christians Support the Jewish State Denise Epstein 12:00 Noon Suite Francaise Jeffrey Shandler 2:00 P.M. Thursday, November 2 Leslie Goldman 4:30 P.M. Adventures in Yiddishland Postvernacular Language & Culture Ruth Andrew Ellenson 1:00 P.M. Locker Room Diaries The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt The Naked Truth about Women, Body Image, FILM - Forgiving Dr. Mengele 4:30 P.M. OPERA 7:30 P.M. and Re-imagining the “Perfect” Body Rabbi Irwin Kula 6:15 P.M. Der Kaiser von Atlantis Iris Krasnow 6:15 P.M. at Congregation Beth Israel Yearnings I Am My Mother’s Daughter Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life Josh Frank and Roger Bennett 8:00 P.M. Making Peace with Mom —Before It’s Too Late (for ages 21-35) CLOSING NIGHT Rabbi Joseph Telushkin 8:00 P.M. fool the world: the oral history of a band A Code of Jewish Ethics Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson 8:00 P.M. called PIXIES Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy Jewtopia Bar Mitzvah Disco The Chosen Book for the Chosen People One Special Performance Only! TicketsNow on Sale! The Jewish Community Center of Houston in partnership with the Houston Grand Opera presents: in association with ““DerDer KaiserKaiser vonvon AtlantisAtlantis”” ““ ”” and TheThe KaiserKaiser ofof AtlantisAtlantis Thursday, November 2, 2006 • 7:30 P.M. Congregation Beth Israel • 5600 North Braeswood Chairs: Nancy & Steven Lerner and Becca & Dr. John Thrash By Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) A critically–acclaimed composer and musician, Ullmann was the official music director at the Terezin Ghetto (Theresienstadt). In September 1944, as musicians were rehearsing Der Kaiser, the S.S. descended upon the camp and discovered within the piece anti-Nazi sentiments and satiric allusions to Hitler. The performance was silenced, and Ullmann and others were sent to Auschwitz where they perished. MUSICAL DIRECTOR: James Conlon Newly-named Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera and former Principal Conductor of the Paris National Opera from 1995-2004, Conlon is dedicated to raising public consciousness to the significance of works of composers whose lives were affected by the Holocaust. To obtain tickets, visit DIRECTOR: Ed Berkeley Edward Berkeley is the director of undergraduate opera studies at The Juilliard School and artistic director of the Willow Cabin Theater Company. An award-winning or director, Berkeley has directed operas throughout the including at www.HoustonGrandOpera.org the Houston Grand Opera.

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