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Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 1 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org BOOkSTORE HOURS 2009 JEwISH BOOk & ARTS FAIR STEERING COMMITTEE SUNDAy - THURSDAy CHAIR CO-CHAIR 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Carol Goldberg Patti Hanfling FRIDAy Bookstore Volunteer Day Chair Coordinators Inclusion Seminar Team Program Committee Chairs 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Managers Ilana Bell Samantha Melman David Bell SATURDAy Linda Chess Vikki Evans Karol Musher Ali Katz 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM Robin Greenspan Lillie Hurwitz Esther Polland Daniel Musher Louise Kershman Sharon Laderman Ruth Strudler Patricia Rauch BOOk SIGNING AFTER EACH PROGRAM Ruth Morris Lolly Friedman Miller Inside the Authors Studio Set Design Sheila Sack Family Day & Children’s Doug Freedman Susan Schneider Carol Sternberg Programming Esther Steinfeld Set Up/Take Down ADVANCE TICkET Cynthia Stetzer Lauren Vines Beverly Sufian Library Liaison Elinor and Jack Goldberg PURCHASE RECOMMENDED Film Diane Gelman Brochure Special Needs Initiatives SAVE MONEy ON PROGRAMS Susan Schneider Niche Marketing Barbara Winthrop Rose Marc Davis Irene Weingarten Buy a Book & Arts Fair Series Ticket Renee Stern Leah Gross Teen Community Read Hospitality Patron Brunch Isabelle Mayer for admission to all programs Community Partners Carolyn Kaplan ONLINE Liz Aussenberg Tracy and Gary Stein Shira Yoshor Robin Greenspan Hosts Patron Campaign Teen Involvement jcchouston.org Susan Altschuler Community Read Rosita Gaon Lisa Estes IN PERSON Judy Arfa Vicky and Michael Richker Debbie Lapin Sue Goott Ellen Grabois Visit the JCC Information Desk or the Box Office Mignon Wolf Shirley Warshaw Patron Events Volunteer Coordinator 30 minutes prior to the start of a program. Stella Blumenthal Roger Stern Annette Kavin By PHONE Purchase your tickets by calling 713-551-7255 JEwISH COMMUNITy CENTER USE ONE OF THE THREE OPTIONS Arts & Culture President Executive Vice President Center for Jewish Living & MENTIONED ABOVE Steering Committee Dan C. Steiner Jerry Wische Learning Susan Farb Morris Bobbi Samuels $50 JCC Member/$70 Public Director Assistant Bookstore Manager Director $2 Discount for Seniors/Students on single tickets Marilyn Hassid Judy Weil Barbara Lindenberg Jonathan Fass Program Coordinators Dance Director Theatre Manager Program Coordinators Jennifer Handy Maxine Silberstein Jerry Lynch Naomi Barancik Brittany Horwitt Michele Faudem Unless otherwise specified, Book & Arts Fair authors Public Relations Graphics and special presentations take place in the Michelle Groogan Bettina Stap IW Marks Theatre Center and the Oshman Gymnasium at the Jewish Community Center, Joe Weingarten Building, Milton Levit Family Campus, 5601 S. Braeswood COMMUNITy PARTNERS Alzheimer’s Association Houston and Southeast Texas Chapter • American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Our Thanks to Corporate Sponsors American Jewish Committee • Anti-Defamation League • Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University • B & P Connections Bureau of Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston • Business and Professional Women’s Breakfast Club Camp Young Judaea • Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston • Congregation Beth El Congregation Beth Israel Sisterhood • Congregation Beth Yeshurun Sisterhood • Congregation Brith Shalom Adult Education Committee Congregation Brith Shalom Sisterhood • Congregation Emanu El Sisterhood • Congregation Or Ami • Congregation Shaar Hashalom Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest Greater Houston Jewish Genealogy Society • Holocaust Museum Houston Houston Chapter of Hadassah • Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism • Jewish Family Service • JFS Alexander Institute Jewish Feminist Reading Group • Monday Dialogues • National Council of Jewish Women–Greater Houston Section Robert M. Beren Academy • Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services • Shalom Bayit: Houston Jewish Network Against Domestic Violence State of Israel Bonds • Temple Sinai • The Emery/Weiner School • TORCH • United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston United Orthodox Synagogues Sisterhood • West Houston JCC • West Houston Lodge of B’nai B’rith The Jewish Herald-Voice Hoffer Furniture Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) • Yiddish Vinkel as of print deadline

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 2 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org NOVEMBER 2009 OPENING NIGHT 1 SUNDAy 7:30 PM 2:00 PM Film Kike Like Me UK, 2007, 86 minutes, Documentary, English Director: Jamie Kastner Jamie Kastner explores Jewish identity and modern anti-Semitism in New York, Israel, Paris, Germany, and Poland. Described as provocative and mischievous, yet difficult to dismiss, Kastner’s first person docu-essay is a mix of Gregory Peck and Michael Moore. What Kastner learns and shares is as shocking as this movie’s title. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $9 Public Dan Senor Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle Best known as the Chief Spokesperson for the U.S.-led Coalition in Iraq, and a Senior Advisor to Presidential Envoy L. Paul Bremer III, the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, Dan Senor rode into Baghdad from Kuwait on the first convoy of civilians into Iraq, less than two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Working closely with the military, Senor advised the Bush Administration, the Blair Government in the U.K. and Ambassador Bremer on a variety of Iraqi strategic, policy and communication 4:30 PM issues and was the civilian face of the Coalition Authority. Written with Senor’s brother-in-law, Saul Singer, editorial page editor of the Jerusalem Post, Paula Eisenstein Baker Start-Up Nation asks how Israel—a tiny, young country with no natural resources and in a constant state of war since its founding—produces more start-up companies than Japan, & Robert S. Nelson India and the UK. The entrepreneurial lessons described in the book offer some impressive and surprising clues for the U.S. as we work to reboot our own economy. Publisher’s Weekly® Leo Zeitlin Rediscovered calls Senor’s book “a rich and insightful read not just for business leaders and policy makers A Composer’s Lost Works but for anyone curious about contemporary Israeli culture.” One of a group of early 20th century Russian composers who A Jewish Republican strategist and venture capitalist, in Spring 2008, Senor joined the used Jewish motifs in their music, Leo Zeitlin was virtually Council on Foreign Relations as an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies. A forgotten until Paula Eisenstein Baker began a fascinating years- frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal editorial page and a Fox News analyst, Senor long search that discovered his identity and much more. This has also written op-eds for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Post, program explores the music and the search, which led to the publication of Zeitlin’s chamber music, co-edited with and the Weekly Standard. Robert S. Nelson. The program includes performances by Susan Ganc (in Yiddish) and Lidya Osadchey (in Russian) of Underwritten by Mrs. Lila Rauch in memory of Gerald Rauch Zeitlin’s four poetic recitations. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 3 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 2 MONDAy 2 MONDAy 12:00 NOON 8:00 PM Chana Bloch Dr. Ron Wolfson Donna Frankoff Memorial Lecture Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch The Seven Questions You’re Twentieth-century Israeli poet and peace activist Dahlia Ravikovitch Asked in Heaven is known for her freedom of expression and engagement with current The Seven Questions gives us a preview of the transformative events in her verse about fathers and daughters, the precarious questions that will greet us in heaven—questions that raise issues position of women, and the plight of Palestinians. that are at the heart of a life that matters. With wisdom from Jewish Acclaimed poet and translator Chana Bloch tradition and funny stories of how people have answered the introduces her new translation (with Chana Kronfeld) questions, Ron Wolfson, Dean of the Center for Jewish Education at of the work of one of the truly great Hebrew poets of American Jewish University, encourages us to reflect on our life goals our time. Block also presents from her new collection, and shape a life of purpose and meaning today. Blood Honey, poems of intimate memory and sure- Patron Sponsors: Vicky and Michael Richker handed imagination that survey the human condition with a tender, compassionate, and unflinching gaze. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public 6:15 PM 3 TUESDAy David Eagleman 12:00 NOON Sum. Forty tales from the afterlives. What happens after we die? In Sum, Baylor Etty Ben-Zaken & Eitan Steinberg College of Medicine neuroscientist David Eagleman offers 40 short vignettes, Setting music to texts, using texts as music each imagining a fate that might await us after Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation Israeli Artists in Residence death and offering an insight into human In this informal meeting, Eitan Steinberg will discuss setting music to texts with nature. At once funny and unsettling, these Etty Ben-Zaken’s live demonstrations from Steinberg’s works (set to texts by poets tales are rooted in science and awe at our Dan Pagis, E. E. Cummings, and Raquel Chalfi). Ben-Zaken will talk about the musical mysterious existence. Fellow Houstonians genre of Sound-Text, and will introduce the video-art film Name for which she has created Rodney Waters and Anita Kruse add their original musical the soundtrack. Name (Israel, 2009, video-art, 19.5 minutes, Hebrew and English) tells exploration of Eagleman’s engaging and thought-provoking look at about Israeli individuals who have changed their names and identities at some point in the human psyche. their lives. Her original vocal work uses fragments of texts, whispered and murmured to Patron Sponsors: Yael Shani and Yoram create a musical score. in honor of Prof. Nachum Dafny

z With funding by The Maurice Amado Foundation Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Free

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 4 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 3 TUESDAy 3 TUESDAy 6:15 PM 8:00 PM Mike Marvins Lev Raphael My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to Texas’ Big Bend: A Photographic Adventure the World His Parents Escaped For over 20 years, Mike Marvins, Houstonian and third In this moving memoir, award-winning generation professional photographer, has traveled Big writer and second-generation Holocaust Bend with a backpack, by car and on horseback. In this first literature pioneer Lev Raphael describes his journey of self-discovery comprehensive photographic study of the region, Marvins from a Jewish and gay identity shaped by his parents’ suffering under takes the viewer deep into the magic of Big Bend, recreating the Nazis and marked by a hatred of all things German to a new self: the feeling visitors have upon first encountering the beauty someone unafraid to face the past and transcend it. Hailed as of the area. Marvins is donating his royalties to the Friends “a cleansing, passionate memoir” by Kirkus Reviews, Raphael’s work is of Big Bend National Park and Friends of the State Ranch captivating to the end. Michigan State University Libraries have just State Park. purchased Raphael’s literary papers covering his 31 years of published Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member and unpublished works. $14 Public Patron Sponsors: Mitzi Shure and Jerry Wische Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public 7:30 PM Lev Raphael presents at Congregation Beth El Wed., Nov. 4 at 7:30 PM. 3900 Raoul Wallenberg Ln. Missouri City 6:30 PM Reception, Cocktails and Light Bites Call 281.499.5066 for information. Inside the Authors Studio A private evening for young adults (ages 21-35) IDs checked at the door! kim Ablon whitney TEEN READ Hal Niedzviecki Nov. 4 and Nov. 5 Kim Ablon Whitney’s young adult novel The Peep Diaries: How We’re is this year’s Teen Read, a new initiative Learning to Love Watching Ourselves to connect teens to the JCC Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair. Based on the and Our Neighbors true account of the MS St. Louis, The Spying and peeping have been with us since Moses sent spies to scout out Other Half of Life imagines two teenage the land of Canaan. In The Peep Diaries, noted social critic Hal Niedzviecki travelers on board the doomed voyage explores the way we’re moving toward a tell-all show-all culture, the age of and the lives they might have lived. Elie Wiesel calls Whitney’s “Peep Culture”—a digital phenomenon that is altering notions of privacy, book “an excellent introduction for young readers wishing individuality, security and humanity, and radically changing the firmaments to understand contemporary history and its traumatic and of our culture and society. moral challenges.” Whitney will present a series of multimedia programs for students. $15 (includes the book)

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 5 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 4 wEDNESDAy 5 THURSDAy 6:15 PM 6:15 PM David Kushner

Sara Houghteling Mason Daniel Credit: Photo Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, Pictures at an Exhibition and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s This debut novel, set in Paris darkened by World War II, chronicles a Legendary Suburb son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces looted by the Nazis during the occupation. Author Sara Houghteling’s luminous historical Levittown recounts the true story of the Levitt family’s creation of a novel draws from her research on wartime France and the early 20th storybook town, Levittown, Long Island, in the decade after World century Parisian art scene. She is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to War II in order to provide affordable housing and in response to Paris, first prize in the Avery and Jule Hopwood Award for novels, and a restrictive covenants. Levittown chronicles the reaction when one John Steinbeck Fellowship. Jewish family thwarts the whites-only covenant by secretly arranging for a black family to purchase a home there. Author David Kushner is Underwritten by / Betsy and Ed Schreiber contributing editor of Rolling Stone and Wired, an NPR essayist, and teaches journalism at New York University. Patron Sponsors: Rosita and Albert Gaon • Joyce Greenberg Patron Sponsors: Bobbi and Vic Samuels Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public 8:00 PM Community Read Peter Manseau 8:00 PM Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter: A Novel One Book, One Jewish Community: Connecting People Chris Bohjalian One Book at a Time Skeletons at the Feast A National Jewish Book Award Fiction winner, Peter Manseau’s charismatic tale of the lives of an aging Yiddish poet In his 12th novel, New York Times bestselling and the young American Catholic helping him translate his memoirs author Chis Bohjalian describes the terror is a novel of faith lost and hope found in translation. Reminiscent and tragedy of war and the heartbreak of love in its midst as German of the sharp, bittersweet tales of I.B. Singer, Songs contains mystery refugees—a Prussian aristocrat, and her Scottish lover, a disguised and revelation and explores the art of translation, diversity within Jew—struggle west ahead of the Russian army. This tale of suspense and the Jewish world, and the true meaning of bashert, or destiny. Join moral complexity set in the waning months of World War II is based on hundreds of readers and be part of the Community Read by signing the diary of a Prussian woman and was a Washington Post Best Book of up at www.jcchouston.org. Purchase the book now at Essence, the 2008. JCC Gift Shop or at the Book Fair before the presentation and receive Patron Sponsors: Helen Wils and Leonard Goldberg a free ticket to Manseau’s talk. Free to Series Ticket Holders Patron Sponsors: Family Tree DNA / Max Blankfeld / Bennett Greenspan

$10 JCC Member • $14 Public z Karol and Daniel Musher Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 6 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 6 FRIDAy 7 SATURDAy 1:00 PM 6:30 PM Film Family Havdalah Blanka Doni Zasloff Thomas Israel, 2007, 38 minutes, Documentary, Hebrew and Ladino with subtitles Director: Michal Houminer-Hirsch Join Jersey singer Mama Doni Zasloff Thomas, talented and hip mother of two along with Jonathan Fass, JCC Director of Jewish Living and Learning, as we end Shabbat and enter the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation Israeli Artist in Residence new week with a family Havdalah ceremony. The evening begins with Havdalah led by Etty Ben-Zaken talks about the traditional Sephardic wedding as it was celebrated until the Mama Doni followed by a “make your own pillow” craft project. beginning of the 20th century. Ben-Zaken will demonstrate traditional Ladino wedding- $15 per family includes a signed Mama Doni CD, personalized Sh’ma Pillow, and songs and will introduce the documentary Blanka. Created by young Israeli director refreshments. Michal Houminer-Hirsch, Blanka brings a brightful look into the life of the bride according RSVP with payment by Nov. 1 713-551-7255 to Jewish custom, passed from mother to daughter. The film revolves around three female characters from three generations, whose stories intertwine to form a rich mosaic and a colorful picture of the stereotypical yet extremely moving wedding celebration. 8:00 PM With funding by The Maurice Amado Foundation Free Film BE’TAY AVON SENIOR ADULT LUNCH PROGRAM Emotional Arithmetic Come have lunch and a program with the Be’tay Avon Crowd. Lunch and Program $2.50 JCC Member/$5.00 Public USA, 2008, 89 min, Drama, English RSVP required for lunch. To RSVP, call Esther Bethke at ext. 3258 A story of redemption, healing, and reconciliation ignited by the reunion of three survivors of Drancy, the World War II internment camp just outside of Paris. Based on a novel by Matt Cohen and AUDITORy EqUIPMENT AVAILABLE FOR HEARING IMPAIRED starring Gabriel Byrne, Christopher Plummer and Susan Sarandon, If you need assistance in hearing clearly, equipment is now available Emotional Arithmetic is an unexpected and tender love story that is life-altering for the main to enhance your ability to hear the program. characters and all those around them. Just ask at the Box Office when you arrive and it will be provided for you with courtesy and sensitivity. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $9 Public Made possible through the generosity of The 37th Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair is proud The Center for ENT Doctors Weber, Moses, Hung, and Powitzky to partner with Taping For The Blind, Inc. Goldstaub Community Special Needs Fund Sharla and Henry Wertheimer Family Philanthropic Fund Three books and the corresponding author programs have been selected for audio access.

CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED By Sum. Forty tales from the afterlives. (David Eagleman) Skeletons at the Feast (Chris Bohjalian) The Last Ember (Daniel Levin)

For people with print and visual handicaps, please contact Taping For The Blind, Inc. Ann Hauser Laufman, CFP and Naomi Duke, CFP for information on audio book access for featured authors. Financial and Estate Planning for Special People and their Families 713-622-2767 • www.tapingfortheblind.org

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 7 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org OLIVER LAPIN Saturday, Nov. 7th 6:30 pm FAMILY HAVDALAH FAMILy Sunday, November 8 DAy at the 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM to Concert, Authors, Books & Fun!

9:00 AM (all ages) 11:30 AM (1st –3rd grades) Cereal Bar and Bagel Breakfast Sheila Aron With special guest, Cat in the Hat! I’m Glad I’m Me – Weaving the Thread of Love from Generation to Generation Book reading 10:00 AM (Youngsters) Mama Doni Family 1:00 PM (for ages 3–6) Concert Shmuel Blitz Jewish Bedtime Stories Book Reading

10:00 AM (1st–3rd grades) and (3rd grade and up) and 11:00 AM (PreK–1st grades) 1:00 PM Ann koffsky Illustration Workshops and 2:00 PM (2nd–5th grades) Eight Lights for Eight Nights Book Reading Ann koffsky Illustration Workshops

10:00 AM (for ages 7 and up) 3:00 PM (2nd–5th grades) Just Shmuel Blitz Brett Man Released! Search for Stones The Mad Hatter Magician All events take place at JCC Houston • 5601 S. Braeswood Family Day is endowed in loving memory of Oliver Lapin All family events are FREE and open to the public, with the exception by his family of Family Havdalah Craft and CD activity, breakfast and Mama Doni Concert For concert tickets or information call Mama Doni concert is underwritten by 713-551-7255 or visit www.jcchouston.org the Barbara and Mark Paull Families and the *Adult Programming continues throughout the day Goldye and Sam Spain Children’s Performing Arts Fund 8 SUNDAy 8 SUNDAy 9:00 AM 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Cereal Bar and Bagel Breakfast Ann Koffsky Make chef hats and eat your breakfast with our Children’s Illustrator and Author All ages special guest, Cat in the Hat! 10:00 AM — For kids 1st — 3rd grades $3 per person RSVP prior to November 1 11:00 AM — For kids PreK — 1st grades Breakfast and Family Concert package • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public 1:00 PM — For kids 3rd grade and up 2:00 PM — For kids 2nd — 5th grades Ann Koffsky is the illustrator and author of more than 20 books for 10:00 AM children including, Eight Lights for Eight Nights, My Jewish Counting Book and My Cousin Tamar Lives in Israel. Her work has also been featured on Family Concert over 100 greeting cards and on products as diverse as toys, housewares and gift items. Mama Doni Ann will bring along a giant grab bag and conduct an entertaining A Children’s Performing Arts Series Event book-making workshop, guide children through one of her crafts from her Eight Lights for Eight Nights book, and take older students from their The Mama Doni Band rocks Houston bringing its Jewliciously cool and fun concert for the first “sloppy” rough sketch to the final published book. She uses examples whole family. Mama Doni’s songs are a breath of fresh air for everyone from babies to bubbes– of her own original artwork as well as a live sketching demonstration to describe each stage. hip young kids and their even hipper parents and grandparents. A Brandeis University and Fun and interactive for the youngest of book lovers! NYU graduate, Jersey singer Doni Zasloff Thomas’s music boasts universal themes of love and laughter and are filled with musical and lyrical surprises. Reggae, folk, classic rock, country, Free hip hop, klezmer, and theatrical music are woven together into energized and unconventional songs that are each stories unto themselves, with characters you can’t help but love. Winners of the Simcha Award at the 2008 International Jewish Music Festival, Amsterdam, this is funky 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM music with a Jewish twist. Underwritten by the Barbara and Mark Paull Families Shmuel Blitz and the Goldye and Sam Spain Children’s Performing Arts Fund Children’s Author Free to Series Ticket Holders • $8 JCC Member • $12 Public 10:00 AM — For ages 7 and up Breakfast and Family Concert package • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public 1:00 PM — For ages 3–6

The Jewish Community Center ArtScroll author Shmuel Blitz is best known for opening the wonders of Jewish prayer and learning to youngsters through his popular ArtScroll Children’s Siddur. He has written enchanting tales in his bestselling Bedtime Stories for Jewish Children. Shmuel brings us his newest work, Search for the Stones, combining cutting edge animation imagery with traditional Jewish values, for an exciting, fast-paced fantasy/action novel that children Become a JCC Patron of the Arts and receive a free won’t forget! Series Ticket when you opt for the benefits. Free

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 9 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 8 SUNDAy 8 SUNDAy 11:00 AM 2:00 PM Ari Y. Kelman Film—Encore Presentation Station Identification: A Blessed Is The Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh Cultural History of Yiddish Director: Roberta Grossman USA, 2008, 85 min, Documentary, English Radio in the United States Houston Jewish Film Festival 2009 Audience Choice Award During radio’s golden age, Yiddish Compelling, surprising, and personal, this film portrays programming helped Jewish immigrants deal with the everyday the amazing story of Hannah Senesh, the World War issues in their lives, guiding them in their efforts to become II-era poet and diarist,who became a paratrooper, American. At the same time, these new Americans tuned in to resistance fighter, and modern-day Joan of Arc. Through hear voices like their own, creating a virtual community across both archival footage and reenactments, retrace Senesh’s time, space, and generations. Ari Kelman, Assistant Professor amazing life escaping pre-war Europe, sneaking into of American Studies at UC Davis, has excavated the archives, Palestine, and her perilous mission to rescue Jews during bringing this period into vivid focus in the first book-length the Holocaust. treatment of this vibrant phenomenon. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $9 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public

11:30 AM 4:30 PM Sheila Aron Matthew Bernstein I’m Glad I’m Me Screening a Lynching: Weaving the Thread of Love From Generation to Generation The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television For ages 5 — 8 The case of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory supervisor in Atlanta convicted Unconditional love is the theme of Sheila Aron’s first book that for the murder of a young woman in 1913 and later lynched by an demonstrates how far the language of “I love you the way you are” angry mob, was one of the most sensational trials of the early 20th can go toward helping a child think and feel “I’m glad I’m me.” century. Emory University Professor, Chair and Director of Graduate Through a collection of 18 simple, everyday conversation models and Studies, Matthew Bernstein explores depictions of the case on the large luscious illustrations, the reader learns how messages of love can be and small screens, examining how the media dealt with the complex communicated between parents and children that can positively shape issues of racism, anti-semitism, and class in America. a child’s personality and self-esteem. Patron Sponsors: Susan and Stanley Schneider Free Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 10 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 8 SUNDAy 9 MONDAy 5:30 PM 10:00 AM Bubbe Day at the J! Rachel Sontag Barbara Graham House Rules Eye of My Heart: Daughter of a well-liked doctor in an upper 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and middle class suburb of Chicago, Rachel Sontag was controlled and terrorized by her father’s serious depression. Questioning his authority Perils of Being a Grandmother led to brutal fights and disobedience meant humiliating punishments. A Like a schoolgirl with her first crush is how Barbara Graham felt compelling and at times, horrifying work with impressive grace and prose when she became a grandmother at 58. Grandmotherhood, she soon that is both precise and rich, House Rules offers a chronological recounting realized, is far more complicated and when Graham could find nothing of a family life that dispels the myth of the typical Jewish family. literary that told the truth about a role that tends to be dismissed in patronizing, stereotypical terms, she set out to collect essays from some Patron Sponsor: Zahava Haenosh famous writers including Judith Viorst, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Anne Roiphe. Universal themes permeate these real stories by remarkable women, all grandmothers. Bubbes…don’t miss this morning devoted to you, and be sure to purchase a “Bubbe’s Bag” to fill with books and cds for your adorable grandkids! Free with a $100 purchase. 7:30 PM Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public David Sax Save the Deli: 6:15 PM In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen Ernest H. Adams From Ghetto to Ghetto: Freelance journalist David Sax takes readers on a journey through North America, exploring the history, the reach, and the future of the Jewish An African-American Journey delicatessen. And then there’s the food—how it’s made, who makes it best, to Judaism and where to go for particular dishes. Though endangered by assimilation Born and raised in a basement apartment in Harlem during the and health food trends, a new generation of deli owners and lovers and a few Jim Crow era, Ernest Adams’ experience of racism molded him into a venerable old-timers are keeping the tradition alive. young black man with anti-white and anti-Jewish feelings. A friendship with a fellow law student and his rabbi father led Adams, who holds both a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia and a law degree from Underwritten by KE NNY & ZIGGY S /Ziggy Gruber •NEW YORK DELICATESSEN RESTAURANT• NYU, to shed his prejudice and embrace Judaism. This memoir is a sometimes uncomfortable account of that journey, truly a tale for the Patron Sponsors: Patti and Dan C. Steiner new post-racial America. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 11 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 9 MONDAy 10 TUESDAy 8:00 PM 10:00 AM Michael Tucker and Lisa Grunberger Jill Eikenberry Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Family Meals: Walsh Kristine Credit: Photo Loss and the Lotus Position In collaboration with Congregation Beth Yeshurun Sisterhood Coming Together to Care for an Aging Parent at Congregation Beth Yeshurun 4525 Beechnut As Family Meals begins, former LA Law stars Michael Tucker and Performance artist and poet Lisa Grunberger tells the story of a recently wife Jill Eikenberry are enjoying the start of their retirement in Italy widowed Bubbe in New York City who accepts her granddaughter’s gift when they must return home to care for Jill’s ailing mother, widowed of a year of yoga lessons with surprising results. By turns poignant and and suffering pronounced dementia. In the process of making the funny, Yiddish Yoga is a touching, witty and human story of love in its decisions that face those caring for aging parents, each member of many expressions and shows us how to embrace the future and move the family makes an individual journey. This heartwarming memoir forward without forgetting the past—with greater flexibility, new postures, chronicles how they ultimately come together in the process. and unexpected friendships! Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Underwritten by Reservations for lunch call 713-551-7255 by November 4 Patron Sponsors: Sharon and Gerry Laderman Susan and David Morris Alana Spiwak and Sam Stolbun Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public 6:15 PM Daniel Asa Rose Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Goodman John Credit: Photo GO GREEN... Purchase a 100% recyclable reusable book bag for .99 Law to Get Him a Transplant—and Save His Life An O. Henry Prize winning author and former Arts & Culture Editor Read. Drink. Enjoy! of the Forward, Daniel Asa Rose’s memoir is stranger than fiction, Grab a bite before or after a program as the book’s title aptly summarizes. Answering the call from a long- lost cousin, Rose sets off for China and the world of medical tourism. Open daily with extended hours except for Saturdays Recounting adventures that veer from slapstick comedy to nail-biting tension, Larry’s Kidney describes the lengths some of us are willing to go Email [email protected] or call to help family—even when it’s ill-advised. 713-729-3200, ext. 3232 Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public to pre-order your meal and it will be ready for you!

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 12 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 10 TUESDAy 11 wEDNESDAy 8:00 PM NOON Daniel Levin S.L. Wisenberg The Last Ember The Adventures of Cancer Bitch Linc Cohen Credit: Photo Marilyn Hassid Emerging Author Program In a funny and unflinching memoir, former Houstonian S.L. Wisenberg In this historical thriller, Daniel Levin provides long-buried secrets, describes losing a breast to cancer while retaining her sense of humor, hidden puzzles based on ancient religious texts, and a race around outrage, and skepticism. Unsparing in her descriptions of fumbling doctors the Mediterranean—all sure to appeal to fans of the Da Vinci Code. and her own awkward announcement to her students, Wisenberg’s book The discovery of an ancient stone map reveals not only an ancient combines the erudition of Leon Wieseltier and the cleverness of intelligence operation to protect an artifact hidden for 2000 years, but Fran Lebowitz in a volume that moves from the personal to the political, also a ruthless modern plot to destroy all traces of it by a mysterious from the everyday to the profound without missing a beat. This third generation Texan and radical bent on erasing all remnants of Jewish and Christian award-winning journalist is the creative nonfiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine and presence from the Temple Mount. Levin’s debut novel is a riveting co-director of Northwestern’s M.A./M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. She teaches in the tale that takes readers expertly through biblical and Jewish history, University of Chicago’s Graham School of General Studies, in the certificate program in archaeology, ancient civilizations, and international law without creative writing. letting up on the fast-paced narrative. Levin holds degrees in Roman Patron Sponsors: Paula and Irving Pozmantier and Greek Civilizations and is a Harvard Law School graduate. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Patron Sponsors: Ann and Stephen Kaufman • Linda and Jerry Rubenstein Free to Series Ticket Holders $10 JCC Member $14 Public 6:30 PM Andrew Blauner New this year... ir B Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry Book Fa uck Fair Buck $ Book In collaboration with Congregation Beth Yeshurun ir Buc $ ook Fa k Buy Book Fair Bucks to gift friends and family with books, $B 100 Jewish Men at Congregation Beth Yeshurun 4525 Beechnut music, and programs. In this volume, editor Andrew Blauner brings together stories by some Receive as our gift a free “Bubbe’s Bag” with the purchase of our greatest literary stars, all examining the complex relationship of $10000 of books and music in the Book & Arts Fair between brothers. His collection explores experiences of love, loyalty and bookstore (or available for purchase @ $3.00) loss, altruism and anger, and competition and compassion. Ranging from hilarious to thought-provoking, the tales in this remarkable compilation, full of intimacy and pain, joy and rage, humor and humanity, are sure to surprise, enlighten, sadden, and comfort. Andrew Blauner is the Founder of Blauner Books Literary Agency. He is the editor of COACH: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference (with a foreward by Bill Bradley) and co-editor of Anatomy of Baseball (with a foreward by Yogi Berra). For Beth Yeshurun 100 Jewish Men members only. Call Rabbi Strauss at 713-666-1881 for information on membership.

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 13 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 11 wEDNESDAy 11 wEDNESDAy 6:15 PM 8:00 PM Neal Bascomb Mcalley ©Jillian Credit: Photo Steven V. Roberts Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a From Every End of This Earth: Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi 13 Families and the Lives They Made in America Shirley and Bill Morgan Family Holocaust Memorial Program At Temple Sinai 13875 Brimhurst Dr. Based on groundbreaking new information and interviews, recently Distinguished journalist and New York Times bestselling author declassified documents, and meticulous research, Neal Bascomb Steven V. Roberts follows the stories of thirteen immigrant families in an chronicles the exhaustive efforts of Nazi hunters to locate Adolf in-depth look at immigration in America today. Roberts examines the many Eichmann and bring him to justice which led to the events of 1960 cultural phenomena tied to immigration, shedding light on the enormous when Mossad and Shin Bet worked to secretly capture the war contributions immigrants continue to make to the fabric and future of criminal and bring him to Israel for trial. Hunting Eichmann offers the America. Timely and insightful, Roberts’ book is an important read at a time first complete account of this gripping tale, one of the most important when our national immigration policy is a source of so much controversy. spy missions in history. Neal Bascomb is the author of the national Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public bestseller The Perfect Mile, the critically acclaimed Higher, and the $36 includes the book (advance purchase only) award-winning Red Mutiny. A former editor and international journalist, Bascomb has Tickets available online at www.jcchouston.org or by calling 281.496.5950 (Temple Sinai) also contributed to the New York Times. 713.334.4300 (Congregation Or Ami) or 281.556.5567 (JCC West Houston) Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public 7:30 PM 8:00 PM Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg Sam Apple The Murmuring Deep: American Parent: My Strange and Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious Surprising Adventures in Modern Babyland “And I Did Not Know: The Secret of Prayer” Cooper Debbi Credit: Photo Parents Night Out Jacob wakes from his dream with a conviction of ignorance. This encounter American Parent is part memoir, part history, and part journalism, a with God and with himself initiates him into a new way of understanding personal tour of the increasingly complex world of baby products, classes, his role. Exile brings him into his ‘dark night of the soul:’ two dark nights – and fads that confront new parents. Embarking on his own journey into the dream of the ladder and his unwitting marriage to Leah – complicate parenthood, Sam Apple, who grew up in Houston, not too far from the and transfigure his world. Renowned scholar Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg will JCC, talks to a wide range of experts—a childbirth hypnotist, a nanny spy, lead the audience in exploring this tension in a 90 minute study session. the mohel who circumcised him, and others—searching for answers. He brings humor and a healthy skepticism to confused and vulnerable In her latest book of biblical exposition, Zornberg moves away from first-time parents. traditional commentary based on the weekly Torah portion. Here she puts God and the men and women of the Bible on the couch using acute literary Patron Sponsors: Judy and Ken Arfa analysis and the tools of psychoanalysis to reveal surprising new understandings of both the Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Bible and the motivations of the familiar biblical characters who populate the stories. Parents who attend together get a second ticket free. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 14 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 12 THURSDAy 12 THURSDAy 12:30 PM 8:00 PM Ofer Ben-Amots Daniel Gordis The Dybbuk—Trapped Between Two Worlds Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can A Jewish Story and Its Universal Meaning Win a War That May Never End Melton Lunch and Learn at the Merfish Teen Center Can Israel win the next military war for survival, The Dybbuk is the transcendent story of two lovers separated by death. Ofer Ben-Amots has whomever the foe? Can Israelis keep up the will to fight? Daniel Gordis, composed a new chamber opera of the tale, written by S. Ansky and H.N. Bialik in 1914. Senior Vice President of the Shalem Center, is confident his fellow Jews This session with the composer explores the history and enduring power and appeal of the can renew their faith in the legitimacy and future of Israel. In Saving Israel, drama and is presented to increase appreciation for the performances of the new opera that Gordis outlines a clear and passionate case for defending and celebrating the will take place at the JCC Nov. 14 and 15. existence of the Jewish state while grappling with the controversial questions that many Israelis and American Jews are loath to confront. Optional lunch at 12:00 Noon. $9 prepaid with reservation made by Nov. 9. Call 713-729-3200 x3257. Patron Sponsors: Carol and Michael Goldberg Underwritten by The Maurice Amado Foundation Sheila and Gordon Sack in memory of Devora Urkowitz Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public 6:15 PM 14 SATURDAy Avinoam J. Patt 8:00 PM Finding Home and Homeland Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath The Dybbuk of the Holocaust Composer: Ofer Ben-Amots This inspiring history examines the role of young survivors of the Holocaust in the creation of the State of Israel. From kibbutzim organized in displaced persons camps, these dedicated, resourceful, and resilient The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds is a multimedia chamber opera in three acts, young Jews acted with passion to establish the new Jewish state. Avi Patt’s composed by Ofer Ben-Amots and inspired by S. Ansky’s timeless Yiddish play of the same book provides a fresh perspective on an important chapter in Jewish name. Ben-Amots’ new opera features abstract and realistic video and photo projections history arguing that Zionism was highly successful in filling a positive synched with dramatic and musical action. The music intertwines folk elements with function for young displaced persons in the aftermath of the Holocaust contemporary textures to create a haunting, self-contained world to tell a powerful story because it provided a secure environment for vocational training, of transcendent passion between two ill-fated lovers. Ben-Amots’ evocative music creates education, rehabilitation, and a sense of family. A former Houstonian, a grand drama of love, death, mysticism, humor, and tragedy, uniquely told through the Patt is the Philip D. Feltman Chair in Modern Jewish History at the female character’s point of view. University of Hartford. Underwritten by The Maurice Amado Foundation Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $25 JCC Member • $35 Public

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 15 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 15 SUNDAy 15 SUNDAy 10:15 AM 1:00 PM Being in the community is Tina Wasserman not the same as being part of Entrée to Judaism: the community. A Culinary Exploration of the Jewish Diaspora Why Should You Care? Wherever Jews have settled, they have adapted local tastes and ingredients to meet the needs of Shabbat and kashrut, creating Thinking about inclusion for people with special needs might help us think about it for a rich and diverse menu of flavors and styles, all still Jewish. ourselves. What we want for them—being part of the community—is what we want for Food columnist for Reform Judaism Magazine, Tina Wasserman, ourselves. Isn’t it? offers a comprehensive cookbook that explores the variety of Please join us for an important conversation on how our Jewish community is embracing Jewish culinary expression around the world and across the ages. inclusion and how you can be a part of it. Wasserman shares the histories and recipes of the great Diaspora communities shedding light on the many wonderful ways these Guest Speaker communities have told their stories through food. Rabbi Bradley Artson Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public God Loves Everyone: Lessons from the Torah and My Autistic Son 2:00 PM Brad Artson is not only a rabbi and theologian, but the father of Jacob, a boy who lives with autism and who struggles not to be The Dybbuk defined by the label. Rabbi Artson will remind us – as a parent and teacher – of the Torah’s insistence on inclusion, on being made in Encore Performance God’s image. He will inspire us to become agents for change – justice and welcome as core Free to Series Ticket Holders • $25 JCC Member • $35 Public communal and personal goals. 11:15 AM Break 11:30 AM Inclusion is as Inclusion Does, or The Jewish Community Center of Houston Good Intentions Aren’t Enough Jewish Book & Arts Fair is a member of the Jewish Book Fair Network. Presented by The following authors appear in cooperation with the Jewish Book Council Ernest H. Adams, Sam Apple, Neal Bascomb, Andrew Blauner, Chana Bloch, Chris Bohjalian, David Eagleman, Barbara Graham, Lisa Grunberger, Sara Houghteling, A.J. Jacobs, Ari Y. Kelman, David Kushner, Daniel Levin, Peter Manseau, Hal Niedzviecki, Lev Raphael, Daniel Asa Rose, Steven V. Roberts, David Sax, Dan Senor, Closed captioning provided by JFS Alexander Institute Rachel Sontag, Joseph Telushkin, Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry, Free Tina Wasserman, and Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg

Advance ticket purchases online at jcchouston.org 16 Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at jcchouston.org 15 SUNDAy CLOSING NIGHT 4:30 PM 7:30 PM A.J. Jacobs Rabbi J oseph Telushkin The Guinea Pig Diaries: A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 2: My Life as an Experiment Love Your Neighbor as Yourself Presented in collaboration with Brazos Bookstore The second volume in Author of The New York Times bestsellers Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s series on The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Photo Credit: Julie Jacobs Jewish ethics explores ethical behavior Biblically, A.J. Jacobs is the editor-at-large of Esquire magazine and in interpersonal relationships, covering a contributor to NPR. His latest book continues his experiential hospitality, visiting the sick, obligations to the dead, comforting journalism and is a mix of popular articles written for Esquire such mourners, charity, relationships between Jews and non-Jews, as “My Outsourced Life,” Jacobs’ quest to delegate every task in his justice, and tolerance. Telushkin provides a clear and masterful life to a management team in India, as well as new experiments where he learns about love, synthesis as he puts the commandment to love at the center of business, history, fame and marriage. This irresistible page-turner proves once again that Jewish theology and experience, guiding us on how to be kinder, Jacobs is unmatched in his ability to combine side-splitting entertainment with profound more perceptive, and more compassionate. life lessons. Patron Sponsor: Deborah Kaplan Underwritten by /Shari and Joe Epstein Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public Patron Sponsors: Theba and Buster Feldman Cathy and Joe Jankovic Barbara Winthrop Rose and Jay Steinfeld Free to Series Ticket Holders • $10 JCC Member • $14 Public

JCC 37th Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair Broadening its Reach The JCC 37th Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair continues to forge new partnerships and create new initiatives in an effort to broaden its reach. • “Inside the Authors Studio”, launched last year as a private event for young adults ages 21-35 returns. • “One Book, One Jewish Community: Connecting People One Book at a Time” is the theme of the new and expanded community read with public programs leading up to the author appearance at the Fair. • Niche Marketing activated members representing a diverse cross-section of the community to promote author appearances in new and creative ways. • Three books will be “radio read” for individuals with visual, physical, or learning disabilities through our partnership with Taping For The Blind, Inc. • JCC auditory equipment is available for assistance to clearly hear programs. Captioning will be available at numerous programs. • The Bubbe’s Bag is back to be filled with fabulous children’s books and cd’s. • A “Teen Read” brings Jewish teens together to read and discuss a single book and hear from the author. • Book Fair Bucks become a great way to gift people books or attendance to programs. • The Fair “goes green” with reusable bags available for purchase at .99 to carry home newly purchased books.

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Nelson 7:30 PM David Kushner Levittown 6:30 PM Leo Zeitlin Rediscovered David Eagleman 6:30 PM Reception 6:15 PM A Composer’s Lost Works Sum. Forty tales from the FAMILY HAVDALAH Inside the Authors Studio Sara Houghteling afterlives. Pictures at an Exhibition Doni Zasloff Thomas Hal Niedzviecki 7:30 PM OPENING NIGHT Lev Raphael 8:00 PM The Peep Diaries 8:00 PM 8:00 PM 7:30 PM Dr. Ron Wolfson (at Congregation Beth El) Community Read 8:00 PM FILM - Dan Senor The Seven Questions You’re Asked Peter Manseau Emotional Arithmetic Start-Up Nation: The Story of in Heaven Lev Raphael 8:00 PM Songs for the Butcher’s Israel’s Economic Miracle My Germany Chris Bohjalian Daughter Skeletons at the Feast NOVEMBER 8 NOVEMBER 9 NOVEMBER 10 NOVEMBER 11 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 13 NOVEMBER 14 Family Day 10:00 AM 12:00 NOON 10:00 AM S.L. Wisenberg 12:30 PM Bookstore Concert, Authors, Fun Barbara Graham Ofer Ben-Amots 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Lisa Grunberger The Adventures of Cancer Bitch Open regular hours Eye of My Heart Yiddish Yoga The Dybbuk—Trapped Between 11:00 AM (at Congregation Beth Yeshurun) 6:30 PM Two Worlds Andrew Blauner A Jewish Story and Its Ari Y. Kelman Universal Meaning Station Identification Brothers 2:00 PM 6:15 PM FILM-Encore Presentation Neal Bascomb Hunting Eichmann Blessed Is The Match 6:15 PM 4:30 PM Ernest H. Adams 6:15 PM 7:30 PM 6:15 PM From Ghetto to Ghetto Daniel Asa Rose Sam Apple Avinoam J. Patt Matthew Bernstein Finding Home and Homeland Screening a Lynching Larry’s Kidney American Parent 8:00 PM 5:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:00 PM Rachel Sontag Michael Tucker and 8:00 PM Steven V. Roberts 8:00 PM From Every End of This Earth Daniel Gordis The Dybbuk House Rules Jill Eikenberry Daniel Levin Chamber Opera Family Meals The Last Ember 8:00 PM Saving Israel 7:30 PM Composer: Ofer Ben-Amots David Sax Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg Save the Deli The Murmuring Deep NOVEMBER 15 Due to circumstances beyond our control programs are subject to change. 10:15 AM Rabbi Bradley Artson ADVANCE TICkET PURCHASE RECOMMENDED BOOkSTORE HOURS God Loves Everyone ONLINE: SUNDAy - THURSDAy Sign up for J-News, our email 1:00 PM Tina Wasserman jcchouston.org 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM newsletter & become a fan on Entrée to Judaism Facebook IN PERSON: 2:00 PM The Dybbuk Visit the JCC Information Desk or come to the box office FRIDAy Encore Performance 30 minutes prior to the start of a program. 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM 4:30 PM Rabbi Joseph Telushkin By PHONE: SATURDAy A Code of Jewish Ethics Purchase your tickets by calling 713-551-7255 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM CLOSING NIGHT SAVE MONEy ON PROGRAMS, BUy A SERIES TICkET 7:30 PM $50 JCC Member/$70 Public Book signing after A.J. 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