Open to the entire community Supported by the Underwritten by JCC Patrons of the Arts The Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation The Jewish Community Center of Houston – Milton Levit Family Campus 5601 S. Braeswood • Houston, Texas 77096 • 713-729-3200 • www.jcchouston.org BOOKSTORE HOURS 2008 JEWISH BOOK & ARTS FAIR STEERING COMMITTEE SUNDAY - THURSDAY CHAIRPERSON CO-CHAIRPERSON 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Barbara Winthrop Rose Carol Goldberg FRIDAY Book Club Family Day Patron Brunch 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Lisa Estes Lauren Vines Martha and Don Freedman SATURDAY Barbara Marcus Film Patron Campaign 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM Bookstore Set Up Sue Goott Rosita Gaon Book signing after each program Martha Barvin Mignon Wolf Patron Dinner Bookstore Volunteer Hospitality Patricia & Mark Rauch ADVANCE TICKET Managers Carolyn Kaplan PURCHASE RECOMMENDED Linda Chess Patron Events Robin Greenspan Hosts Stella Blumenthal ONLINE: Louise Kershman Susan Altschuler Annette Kavin Judy Arfa www.jcchouston.org Ruth Morris Program IN PERSON: Sheila Sack Inside the David Bell Visit the JCC Information Desk Carol Sternberg Authors Studio Deborah Kaplan Cynthia Stetzer Doug Freedman Norri Leder or the Box Office 30 minutes Beverly Sufian Esther Steinfeld Daniel Musher prior to the start of a program. Brochure Library Liaison Program Volunteers BY PHONE: Nancy Ehrenkranz Isabelle Mayer Sherrie Eisenman Renee Stern Lolly Friedman Miller Purchase your tickets by Library/Archives calling 713-551-7255 Children & Teen Books Ruth Morris Set Design Purchase a Series Ticket Ellen Leventhal Ellen Trachtenberg Susan Schneider Mignon Wolf for admission to all the Community Partners Special Needs Book & Arts Fair programs Patti Hanfling Literacy Mentors Sarah Braham Mindy Mitzner Kathy Parven Diane Brezner SPECIAL RATES FOR THIS YEAR’S Marsha Schooler Linda Meyerson Day Chairs ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! Teri Walthen Adele Croft Logo Design $40 JCC Member/$60 Public Cheryl Levy Brad Gaber Synagogue Liaison Susan Schneider Linda Suib $2 Discount for Donna Frankoff Seniors/Students Memorial Lecture Music on single tickets Richard Frankoff Joyce Gilbert Unless otherwise specified all programs JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER take place in the IW Marks Theatre Center President Arts & Culture Assistant Development Director and the Oshman Gymnasium at the Jewish Community Center, Joe Weingarten Bldg. Ed Schreiber Judy Weil Tim Roseborough Milton Levit Family Campus • 5601 S. Braeswood Executive Vice President Bookstore Manager Development Jerry Wische Barbara Lindenberg Assistant Our thanks to our Corporate Sponsors Cynthia Whittington Arts & Culture Dance Director Steering Committee Maxine Silberstein Graphic Designers Susan Farb Morris Kim Osborn Marketing Director Michael Mayor Program Director Renee Harris Arts & Culture Website Coordinator Marilyn Hassid Marketing Daryl Freedman Coordinator Arts & Culture Sarah Talisman Theatre Manager Program Coordinators Jerry Lynch Jennifer Handy Public Relations Brittany Horwitt Michelle Groogan COMMUNITY PARTNERS Alexander Institute of Jewish Family Service • American Jewish Committee American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) • American Society for Technion • Anti-Defamation League Robert M. Beren Academy • Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University • Camp Young Judaea Texas Chevra Kadisha • Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Congregation Beth El • Congregation Beth Yeshurun Brotherhood Congregation Beth Yeshurun Sisterhood • 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 • The Emery/Weiner School • Freeman Center for Strategic Studies Holocaust Museum Houston • Houston Chapter of Hadassah • Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism Houston Jewish Day School Consortium • Houston Hillel • Inprint • Jewish Family Service Jewish Feminist Reading Group • Jewish Information Center of Houston Murder By the Book • National Council of Jewish Women - Greater Houston Section The Jewish Herald-Voice Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services • State of Israel Bonds • Temple Beth Torah TORCH • United Orthodox Synagogues Sisterhood • West Houston Lodge of B’nai B’rith WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization) • Yiddish Vinkel Hoffer Furniture As of print deadline 2 advance ticket purchases online at www.jcchouston.org NOVEMBER 2008 OPENING NIGHT 2 SUNDAY 7:30 PM Alan Zweibel 2:00 PM Clothing Optional and Other Ways to Read These Stories Film One of the original and lead writers for Saturday Night Live , Orthodox Stance Alan Zweibel is the writer of U.S.A., 2007, 80 minutes, Documentary award-winning films, plays, Director: Jason Hutt television shows, books and short pieces for an impressive Although the term “Jewish boxer” has been an oxymoron for the array of periodicals. His latest last 60 years, Dmitriy Salita, a 25-year-old Russian immigrant, is work, Clothing Optional , is a making history as a top professional boxer and a rigorously observant collection of personal Jew. Orthodox Stance paints an intimate, three-year portrait of the narratives, essays, stories, trials and tribulations faced by this up-and-coming boxer, and the and even drawings that seemingly incompatible cultures and characters working together Steve Martin calls “laugh out to support his rare and remarkable devotion to both Orthodox loud” funny. Taking off from his Judaism and the pursuit of a professional boxing title. In the end, life in the arts, Zweibel spins the film is about more than just boxing and religion; it is a story hysterical tales that recall his e about a young man’s search for meaning in life. t n start writing one-liners for a l l a Free to Series Ticket Holders • $6 JCC Member • $8 Public P Catskills’ comedians. Clothing g e r G Optional includes tributes to : y b friends and mentors and the o t o h improbable imaginings of 4:30 PM P Zweibel’s unique mind. Zweibel was the recipient of the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor for his novel The Other Schulman . He wrote and created It’s Garry Shandling’s Bob Morris Show and was a writer for Curb Your Enthusiasm and Monk . Zweibel’s television work has earned him five Emmys and Writer’s Guild of America Assisted Loving awards. His theater credits include Bunny Bunny-Gilda Radner: A Sort of True Tales of Double Dating With My Dad Love Story , based on his best-selling memoir; the Tony-Award winning 700 Sundays , written with Billy Crystal; and the Broadway hit Fame In this warm and often hilarious tribute to Joe, his 80-something father, Becomes Me , with Martin Short. A frequent Bob Morris—long-time writer of the “Age of Dissonance” column in guest on the David Letterman Show , the Sunday New York Times —describes how father and son come to Zweibel’s writings have appeared in Esquire, terms with their grief following the death of Morris’s mother, Joe’s wife. The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, As Joe enters the dating scene, Morris finds himself in the role of advisor, MAD Magazine , and many comedy confidante, and matchmaker. With humor and tenderness, Morris anthologies. Zweibel is currently finishing touches on the complexities of senior romance, a new Broadway show, Saturday Nights his own issues with commitment and intimacy at 8:00 , and a television pilot with and love at every age. Ultimately, the memoir is Bob Newhart. a story of the love between a son and his complicated, sometimes exasperating, and Zweibel’s unique approach to the world, always human father. filled with insight and wit, produces both laughter and reflection. His opening night Patron Sponsors: Judy and Ken Arfa audience will understand why The New Regina J. Rogers York Times reports that Zweibel “has earned Free to Series Ticket Holders a place in the pantheon of American $9 JCC Member • $13 Public pop culture.” Underwritten by The Pulaski Rauch Fund Patron Sponsors: Roslyn and Ricky Haikin • Nancy and Steve Lerner JEWS ROCK! Free to Series Ticket Holders • $9 JCC Member • $13 Public A Celebration of Rock and Roll's Jewish Heritage from the Archives of Photojournalist Janet Macoska Sunday, November 2 - Opening Reception at 6:30 PM Underwritten by a bequest of the Kaye and Sonia Marvins Trust Become a JCC Patron of the Arts at www.jcchouston.org 3 s k r 3 MONDAY o w t e N e m i t w o h S - 7:00 PM s d r a w d E 6:30 PM Reception • Cocktails and Light Bites k r i K : Inside the Authors Studio y b o t o A private event for young adults (ages 21-35) h Don’t Bring Your Mom! – ID’s checked at the door! P Evan Handler It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive Classically-trained actor, screenwriter, and journalist, Evan Handler is probably best known for his role as Harry Goldenblatt in the HBO series Sex and the City , that he reprised in this year’s film of the same name. Others will recognize him from a very long list of roles on the stage and in movies and on television, including Angels in America, Biloxi Blues, Californication, Natural Born Killers , The Chosen , The West Wing and Studio 60 . Handler is also an accomplished memoirist. His first book, Time on Fire , chronicled his terrifying four-year journey through acute myeloid leukemia. Now in It’s Only Temporary , Handler describes what he’s learned about life from that experience and the 20 years since his miraculous recovery. The book is a series of funny and heartfelt autobiographical stories, meditations on love and relationships, triumphs and mistakes—all told with blunt honesty and humor. $15 (includes his book) Patron Sponsor: Jay Steinfeld/Blinds.com 12:00 NOON Preview for our 36+ crowd Free to Series Ticket Holders • $9 JCC Member • $13 Public 8:00 PM Edgar Bronfman Hope, Not Fear: A Path to Jewish Renaissance In conversation with Deborah Lipstadt and co-author Beth Zasloff In Hope, Not Fear , internationally renowned philanthropist and community leader Edgar M.