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EVENING EVENTS DAYTIME EVENTS Dennis Ross, 1 The Supreme Court - A Year in Review, 7 Journey of a Lifetime: Roger Cohen, 8 Staying Positive Through Cancer, 1 Talkin’ Broadway, 8 Sherre Hirsch, 1 Aleena Rieger, 8 Marriage Equality, LGBT Rights Karen Gooen: Mah Jongg, 9 and Jewish Values, 2 Rabbi Avi Weiss, 9 Seth M. Siegel, 2 Stephen Silverman, 9 Shulem Deen, 2 Letty Cottin Pogrebin, 3 FILMS Dan Ephron, 3 Sukkah City, 10 Pump: The Movie, 10 CELEBRATE, SERVE AND REMEMBER Bass Clef Bliss, 10 The Shabbat Project, 3 The Return, 11 Social Action Day, 4 Oro Macht Frei, 11 Giant Chanukiah Candle Lighting, 4 Highlights of WJFF ‘15, 12 Witness Theater, 4 The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, 12 Israel @ 68, 4 A Borrowed Identity, 12 SERIES Deli Man, 13 College Admissions, 4 Secrets of War, 13 The Changing Landscape of College The Last Mentsch, 13 Admissions Testing, 4 Inside the Admissions Office , 5 Israel Film Festival, 19 In Conversation with Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, 5 CLASSES Sports Talk with Russell Wolff, 5 Israel, 14 Israel Today: Challenges and Finding the Value in Real Estate, 5 Opportunities, 14 World Politics with Professor What’s News in Israel?, 14 Ralph Buultjens, 5 Israel at the Crossroads of Women in Career Transition, 14 the Middle East, 5 Parenting, 14 Pacific Wars? China vs. Japan vs. Moms’ Morning to Mingle, 14 America, 6 How to Talk So Your Child Will Listen, 15 Elections 2016 - America at the Polls, 6 Jewish Peoplehood, 15 Jews Around the World, 6 Shattering Stereotypes: In Conversation with Joseph Berger, 6 Renaissance Jewish Women, 15 Alon Gratch, 6 Exploring Cuba, 15 Ask the Rabbis, 7 ENGAGE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS 16 Arlene Alda and Daniel Libeskind, 7 SENIOR CONNECTIONS 19 COMING SOON 19 EVENT CALENDAR 20 CLASS SCHEDULE 23 SPONSORS AND PARTNERS 24
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Doomed to Succeed: Dr. Subuhee Hussain is The U.S.- Israel board certified in Medical Oncology, Hematology, and Relationship from Internal Medicine, practicing Truman to Obama at White Plains Hospital Dennis Ross since 2008. Dr. Hussain In his new book, Dennis Ross trained at Beth Israel Medical provides a history of the sometimes Center and at Montefiore Medical Center fraught, occasionally tense, but always Albert Einstein Cancer Center. essential relationship between the U.S. and In collaboration with White Plains Israel. Ross has been a direct participant in Hospital Cancer Program and the shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East Cancer Support Team for nearly thirty years. The book describes every administration from Truman to Tuesday October 13 at JCC Obama and the often tumultuous debates @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $10 between key advisors. Ambassador Dennis Ross Thresholds: How to Thrive Through is a Distinguished Fellow Life Transitions to and Counselor at the Live Fearlessly and Washington Institute for Regret Free Near East Policy and is a Distinguished Professor at Sherre Hirsch Georgetown University. He Transitions — we face them has worked under the administrations of daily. In her book Thresholds, numerous United States Presidents. Rabbi Sherre Hirsch likens life’s transitions to the hallways in and out of Wednesday October 7 at JCC rooms in our homes. She encourages people @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $30 to view life’s many transitions as threshold 7:00-7:30 pm - Meet & Greet reception opportunities rather than fearful obstacles and premium seating - $75 to be overcome. Join us for an evening with Sherre Hirsch to discover what you will do when crossing the next threshold. Journey of a Lifetime: Sherre Hirsch is a Staying Positive Through Cancer rabbi and spiritual life Authors Deb Ebenstein and Geralyn consultant for Canyon Lucas will share empowering stories Ranch Properties where about surviving cancer with resilience, she serves as a speaker, courage, optimism and humor. Dr. Subuhee teacher and retreat Hussain from White Plains Hospital will be facilitator. moderating the conversation. In collaboration with Deb Ebenstein is the author Temple Israel Center of White Plains, Beth El of Mani-Pedi STAT, a funny Synagogue and the Scarsdale Adult School memoir that chronicles her two bouts with cancer Tuesday October 20 between the ages of sixteen at Temple Israel Center of White Plains and thirty-three. @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $20 Geralyn Lucas is an award- winning TV producer, lecturer and author of Then Came Life and Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy.
www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 1 Marriage Equality, LGBTQ Rights showing how Israel managed to turn water and Jewish Values from a burden to an opportunity and becoming an example for other countries to follow. The historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide Seth M. Siegel is a writer, affirms Jewish values of equality, yet lawyer, businessman and opponents of the ruling question its impact Jewish community activist. on religion. Join Rabbi David Schuck in He is a member of the Council conversation with Rabbi Deborah Waxman on Foreign Relations and sits and Seth Marnin on the intersection of on Boards of several Jewish queerness, Jewishness and civil rights. organizations, including AIPAC. Rabbi David Schuck is the Yoav Cohen, Westchester new Senior Rabbi of the Beth Shaliach (emissary), will be El Synagogue Center in New leading the conversation. Rochelle. His prior pulpit was In collaboration with the at the Pelham Jewish Center. Westchester Jewish Council, Rabbi Deborah Waxman, PhD the Rosenthal JCC, AJC is the President of the Westchester, Jewish National Reconstructionist Rabbinical Fund (JNF), and the Scarsdale Adult School College. She is the first Wednesday December 16 at JCC woman rabbi to head a Jewish @ 7:30-9:00 pm. - $20 congregational union and lead a Jewish seminary, and also the first gay rabbi to take on such a senior leadership role. All Who Go Do Not Return Seth Marnin is a lawyer and Shulem Deen with an introduction the Associate Director of from Lani Santo Legal Affairs at the Anti- Shulem Deen was raised to Defamation League (ADL), believe that questions are where he represents LGBTQ, dangerous. As a member of and other civil rights issues. the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the In collaboration with the Anti-Defamation United States, he knew little League, Mosaic of Westchester, Beth El about the outside world, only Synagogue Center and the Scarsdale that it is to be shunned. In All Adult School Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces Wednesday December 2 at JCC his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an @ 7:30-9:00 pm -$20 illuminating look at a highly secretive world. Shulem Deen is the founding Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution editor of Unpious, an online for a Water-Starved World journal for voices on the Hasidic fringe. He serves on Seth M. Siegel in the board of Footsteps, an conversation organization helping the with Yoav Cohen former ultra-Orthodox. With sixty percent of Israel Lani Santo is the Executive being desert, the country Director of Footsteps, which has been jumping ahead of provides a range of services for the water innovation curve former ultra-Orthodox Jewish for decades, while much men and women investigating of the rest of the world is in the world beyond their crisis. Let There Be Water provides a model communities of origin. for solving these worldwide water problems,
2 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 3 In collaboration with UJA Westchester Dan Ephron served as the Women’s Philanthropy Neshamot Fund Jerusalem bureau chief for and Footsteps Newsweek and The Daily Wednesday February 3 at JCC Beast where he covered @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $20 both the rally when Rabin was assassinated and the Single Jewish Male subsequent murder trial. Seeking Soul Mate In collaboration with the Westchester Jewish Council, the Rosenthal JCC and the Scarsdale Letty Cottin Pogrebin Adult School Feminist icon Letty Cottin Wednesday May 18 at JCC Pogrebin’s second novel follows Zach Levy, the left-leaning son @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $20 of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother that he’ll marry within the tribe. But when Zach falls for Cleo, an African American activist grappling with her own inherited trauma, he CELEBRATE, SERVE must reconcile the family he loves with the woman who might be his soul mate. A New AND REMEMBER York love story complicated by the legacies and modern tension of Jewish American and African American history, Single Jewish Male The Shabbat Project Seeking Soul Mate explores what happens The JCC of Mid-Westchester is proud to when the heart runs into the reality of politics, spearhead The Shabbat Project from October history, and the weight of family promises. 23–24, 2015. Families throughout Westchester Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a will be participating in this founding editor of Ms. unifying event together Magazine, is the author of with over a million people eleven books, an activist, in 65 countries and 465 and national lecturer. cities worldwide. Be Her titles include the inspired to celebrate acclaimed How to Be a Shabbat with family and Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick. She was the friends. All religious denominations and consulting editor on Free to Be, You and Me. affiliations are welcome. Wednesday March 2 at JCC To kick off this international Shabbat, join @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $20 a communal Challah Bake on Thursday, October 22. Whether you are an experienced Challah baker or a first-timer, please join Killing a King in this energetic and fun experience. Dan Ephron Ingredients and instructions will be provided. Killing a King relates the In collaboration with UJA-Federation, JCC on parallel stories of Yitzhak the Hudson, Rosenthal JCC, WIZO and the Rabin and his assassin Westchester Jewish Council Yigal Amir over the two Thursday October 22 at JCC years leading up to the @ 10:30 am-12:30 pm - $20 assassination, as one of them plotted the Limited space available, deals he hoped would lead to peace and Pre-Registration required by October 20 the other plotted murder. Only through the prism of the murder is it possible to understand Israel today, from the paralysis in peacemaking to the fraught relationship between Netanyahu and Obama.
www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 3 Social Action Day: In honor of Yom Ha Shoah (Holocaust Together We Are Not Alone Remembrance Day). Join us for an opportunity to get Witness Theater is a collaboration of Selfhelp, involved in numerous interactive UJA-Federation and SAR Academy activities, workshops and educational Thursday May 5 at JCC programming for the entire family. @ 7:00-9:00 pm - FREE Social action projects will focus on Pre-Registration suggested teaching the concepts of empathy and inclusion and on connecting different segments of our community who may Israel @ 68 feel isolated. Bring friends and have fun Remember and Celebrate while helping others! For all ages. Join us for an authentic Sunday October 25 at JCC Israeli experience. @ 1:00-4:00 pm - FREE A solemn memorial ceremony followed by a festive independence Giant Chanukiah Candle Lighting celebration, with food, Come celebrate the joy of Chanukah with music and separate festive food, music, arts & crafts and the activities for teens and for families. lighting of the big outdoor chanukiah In collaboration with BBYO, Hillels of (menorah). Bring friends and family. Westchester, the Westchester Jewish For all ages. Council and the Westchester Jewish Teen Tuesday December 8 at JCC Learning Initiative @ 5:30-7:00 pm - FREE Wednesday May 11 at JCC Pre-Registration suggested @ 7:00-9:00 pm - FREE Pre-Registration suggested Witness Theater with students from SAR Academy SAR’s performance of “Witness Theater” is an innovative and emotional intergenerational “journey” for Holocaust SERIES survivors and students. Working together, the two generations elicit and reveal the COLLEGE ADMISSIONS moving stories of survival and explore the issues of war, loss, and trauma. The Changing Landscape of College Admissions Testing Survivors are the narrators, Jed Applerouth in Conversation with and SAR Cheryl Strauss Einhorn students work Recent shifts in college testing will benefit with them some students and challenge others. The to draw out ACT is now dominating the landscape. In their stories response, the College Board is overhauling and “become” its SAT and moving its focus from aptitude these heroes on stage, re-enacting their to achievement. Make informed decisions wartime experiences. This emotional with help from insiders in college prep re-creation of real life experiences aims testing and learn about the major changes to instill the memory of the Shoah in the in the works. Optimal strategies to minimize hearts and minds of the next generation. stress and get students ready for the new Witness Theater was conceived by Irit and admissions tests will be discussed. Ezra Dagan and developed by JDC-ESHEL in Jed Applerouth is a teacher and an Israel. It was brought to New York in 2012 educational innovator. A nationally certified by Selfhelp. counselor with a PhD in Educational
4 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 5 In honor of Yom Ha Shoah (Holocaust Psychology, Jed has Finding Value in Real Estate Remembrance Day). researched student Join Alan Weissman and David Brause cognition, memory, Witness Theater is a collaboration of Selfhelp, as they discuss the newest commercial motivation, and learning UJA-Federation and SAR Academy buildings in New York and the latest on strategies to enhance the residential developments. Thursday May 5 at JCC pedagogical strategies @ 7:00-9:00 pm - FREE of Applerouth Tutoring Alan Weissman is a real estate attorney Pre-Registration suggested Services. and Principal at Alfred Weissman Real Estate, a company with a varied portfolio Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is a journalist, of retail, office and industrial properties. Israel @ 68 media consultant and adjunct professor Remember and Celebrate at Columbia University. David Brause, owner of Brause Realty, a real estate company specializes in the Monday September 21 at JCC Join us for an authentic long-term ownership, management and Israeli experience. @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $10 development of high-quality, well-located A solemn memorial commercial real estate assets. ceremony followed by Inside the Admissions Office a festive independence Wednesday March 9 at JCC celebration, with food, High school students and their parents are @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $20 music and separate invited to spend an insightful evening with activities for teens and for families. the decision-makers in college admissions. Deans and Directors from several popular WORLD POLITICS WITH In collaboration with BBYO, Hillels of colleges* – including Emory, Case Western, PROFESSOR RALPH BUULTJENS Westchester, the Westchester Jewish University of Chicago and Franklin & Back by popular demand, Professor Ralph Council and the Westchester Jewish Teen Marshall — will give you an insider’s view Buultjens will enlighten the audience on Learning Initiative of what they’re looking for and how they the latest global developments and their Wednesday May 11 at JCC read applications and make decisions. impact on the U.S. @ 7:00-9:00 pm - FREE Moderated by Betsy Woolf, Professor Buultjens is Pre-Registration suggested Woolf College Consulting. a well-known media *Schools subject to change commentator. For over 15 years he has been the lead Thursday October 8 at JCC speaker at 92Y’s World @ 7:30-9:00 pm - Free Affairs Program and is also a SERIES Pre-Registration required Professor at NYU. In collaboration with the COLLEGE ADMISSIONS IN CONVERSATION WITH Scarsdale Adult School CHERYL STRAUSS EINHORN The Changing Landscape of Cheryl Strauss Einhorn Israel at the Crossroads of College Admissions Testing is a journalist, media the Middle East Jed Applerouth in Conversation with consultant and adjunct How will continued Middle East turmoil Cheryl Strauss Einhorn professor at Columbia affect Israel and its neighbors? Will Recent shifts in college testing will benefit University. extremism expand? Will Sunni vs. Shia some students and challenge others. The confrontations explode into regional ACT is now dominating the landscape. In Sports Talk with Russell Wolff war as oil, religion and politics ignite response, the College Board is overhauling Sports is entertainment, and Russell more conflicts? Can Israel continue to be its SAT and moving its focus from aptitude Wolff makes it his mission to serve and insulated and thrive? to achievement. Make informed decisions entertain fans across the globe. Under Monday October 26 at JCC with help from insiders in college prep Wolff’s guidance, ESPN International has @ 10:30 am-12:00 pm - $30 testing and learn about the major changes grown to reach sports fans across all seven in the works. Optimal strategies to minimize continents. Wolff will share his perspective stress and get students ready for the new on the global business of sports. admissions tests will be discussed. Date TBD Jed Applerouth is a teacher and an @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $20 educational innovator. A nationally certified counselor with a PhD in Educational
www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 5 Pacific Wars? March 6 China vs. Japan vs. America Former Soviet Union with Rabbi Avi Weiss author of Open the Iron Door. The three most powerful economies (see p. 9 for more information.) compete in East Asia. Are issues like island disputes, cyber hacking and trade April 3 competition creating tensions that will Latin America with Nora Glickman be difficult to contain? Will the balance (Argentina), Alina Nicolaievsky (México) of global political and economic power in and Mercedes Sensel (Venezuela). the twenty-first century be decided in the May 15 Pacific region? Iran with Hazzan (Cantor) Farid Dardashti Monday February 8 at JCC @ 10:30 am-12:00 pm - $30 IN CONVERSATION Election 2016 WITH JOSEPH BERGER America at the Polls Joseph Berger is a retired New York Times award- The U.S. Presidential Election in the fall winning reporter and editor. is unusually important for America. Will He is the author of Displaced it reflect changing demographics and Persons, The World in a City increasingly energized minorities? Will and The Pious Ones. Berger domestic issues — economics, inequality, was born in Russia in 1945 middle class concerns — drive the agenda? and spent the postwar years in D.P. camps Will international challenges — China, in Germany. After immigrating to the U.S., the Middle East, Jihadism and Russia — he grew up in Manhattan and the Bronx. receive enough attention? What are the key He lives in Westchester County with his features of the campaign? wife, Brenda. Thursday April 7 at JCC @ 7:30pm-9:00 pm - $30 The Israeli Mind Alon Gratch JEWS AROUND THE WORLD The Israeli Mind presents a compelling For millennia Jews have been living across portrait of the Israeli national character and the globe. In this series you will have an the struggle to forge a national identity. intimate opportunity to learn from experts Israelis are grand and grandiose, visionary and natives about what life is like for Jews and delusional, generous and self-centered. living outside the U.S. Some speakers live Resolving these internal conflicts are in Westchester and will recount their imperative to Israel’s survival as a nation. journeys as immigrants to our country. Alon Gratch PhD, a clinical Six Sundays at JCC psychologist whose family @ 2:00-3:30 pm – $15 each session has lived in Israel for generations, is uniquely Free for Senior Passport holders. positioned to confront these issues. December 20 In collaboration with AJC Westchester, Shanghai with David Goldenberg the Westchester Jewish Council, and the January 10 Rosenthal JCC South Africa with Lorrain Abramson, Wednesday January 13 at JCC author of the book My Race and @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $20 Nicky Ziman January 31 Poland Film screening and discussion with Adam Zucker, director of The Return. (See p. 11 for more information.) 6 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 7 Ask The Rabbis Denver Art Museum; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; and commercial centers Join Joseph Berger as he engages in a lively in Bern, Las Vegas, Düsseldorf, as well as discussion with four local Rabbis on their residential buildings in Singapore, Warsaw, movement’s perspective on the current Toronto, Manila and Sao Paulo. Born in Lód’z, state of Judaism in America as it relates Poland, in 1946, Mr. Libeskind immigrated to religious observance, intermarriage, to the U.S. as a teenager and, with his anti-Semitism and Israel. Berger will be family, settled in the Bronx. Mr. Libeskind moderating this open discussion with lives in New York City with his wife and colleagues Rabbis Lester Bronstein, Jonathan business partner, Nina. Morgenstern, David Schuck and Jeff Sirkman. Wednesday April 13 at JCC In collaboration with Bet Am Shalom, Young Israel of Scarsdale, Beth El Synagogue Center, @ 7:30-9:00 pm - TBD and Larchmont Temple Tuesday March 29 at JCC @ 7:30-9:00 pm - $20
Just Kids from the Bronx Arlene Alda and Daniel Libeskind DAYTIME EVENTS What was it like to grow up in the place that bred The Supreme Court – influencers in just about A Year in Review every field of endeavor Hear a panel discussion with liberal and today? The Bronx is where conservative viewpoints on the latest U.S. Daniel Libeskind, Al Pacino, Supreme Court rulings and their impact Carl Reiner, General Colin on our civil liberties and human rights. The Powell and so many other panel will also preview top themes to be leading artists, athletes, scientists and addressed by the Court in the coming term. entrepreneurs spent their formative years. In Just Kids from the Bronx, Alda offers a Professor James L. Coll is film-like portrait of the Bronx from the a Professor of History and early twentieth century until today. the Constitution at Nassau Community College and a Arlene Alda received Detective with the New York a Fulbright Scholarship City Police Department. and became a professional clarinetist. Arlene Popkin is the retired She is an award-winning Chief of Trial for the Legal photographer and Aid Society of Westchester author of nineteen County and is an active books. She and her member of the Lower Hudson husband Alan Alda live Valley Chapter of the ACLU. in New York City. Cara Gallagher is a senior Daniel Libeskind is an international educational consultant at figure in architecture and urban design. C-Span, specializing in the In 2003, his studio Supreme Court won the historic Funded by the NY Council for competition to create the Humanities. a master plan for In collaboration with the JCC of Harrison the rebuilding of the World Trade Center Sunday November 1 at JCC in Lower Manhattan. @ 2:00-4:00 pm – $15 The studio’s portfolio includes the Jewish Free for Senior Passport holders. Museum, Berlin;
www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 7 The Girl from Human Street: Eddie Shapiro is a theater Ghosts of Memory in a journalist and author of Nothing Like a Dame, a Jewish Family collection of exclusive Roger Cohen interviews with Tony Award In this luminous memoir, Winners including: Angela Roger Cohen turns an Lansbury , Chita Rivera, Carol eye on the legacy of his Channing, Idina Menzel and own forebears, most others. notably his mother. Laura Shoop Milowitz The Girl from Human is an actress, singer Street is an intimate and dancer. She has and profoundly moving performed on Broadway family journey from in many shows including Lithuania, to South Africa, England, the The Tempest, Into The U.S. and Israel—a story of displacement, Woods, Oklahoma and prejudice, hope, despair and love. Fiddler on the Roof. Roger Cohen is an award- In collaboration with the Scarsdale winning columnist for Adult School The New York Times. Since 1990 he has worked for the Thursday November 19 at JCC Times in Paris, Berlin and @ 10:30 am-12:30 pm - $20 the Balkans. On 9/11 he Free for Senior Passport holders. was named foreign editor overseeing Pulitzer Prize- winning coverage in the aftermath of I Did Not Tell Them Anything the attacks. Aleena Rieger Sunday November 15 at a private home When Aleena Rieger was @ 3:00-5:00 pm - $36 growing up, there were things she wasn’t allowed Limited spots available. to talk about – where she Address to be provided upon registration. was born, her family experiences during the Talkin’ Broadway Holocaust, and her Join an entertaining mother’s illness. I Did Not conversation about Tell Them Anything is a memoir of a great women in child survivor and the stories she no longer musical theater led needs to conceal from her children and by Jan Svendsen of grandchildren. the Broadway League Aleena Rieger immigrated with Eddie Shapiro, to the U.S. when she was author of Nothing Like six. She holds a BA and an a Dame, and theater MA from the University of performer Laura Shoop Milowitz. Michigan, and a law Jan Svendsen is the degree from NYU Law Director of Marketing for School, and is a practicing the Broadway League, attorney in New York. the national trade In honor of the U.N.’s International organization of the Holocaust Remembrance Day. Broadway industry, and presenter of the Tony Thursday January 28 at JCC Awards®. @ 10:30 am-12:00 pm - $20 Free for Senior Passport holders.
8 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 9 Searching for Bubbe Fischer Rabbi Avi Weiss is the founder of Yeshivat Mah Jongg Play, Lunch & Book Talk Chovevei Torah. He is with Karen Gooen Senior Rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Mah Jongg is more Riverdale, a Modern popular than ever in the and Open Orthodox Jewish community. Taking congregation. He is also one’s seat at the Mah the National President Jongg table has been a of the AMCHA – the rite of passage among Coalition for Jewish Jewish women (and men) Concerns, a grassroots organization that for almost 100 years. speaks out for Jewish causes throughout The game still provides a the world. mental challenge as well as an opportunity to make new friends and In collaboration with Hebrew Institute of form strong emotional bonds. This memoir White Plains and manual, told with self-deprecating Sunday March 6 at JCC humor and a great deal of insight, will appeal @ 2:00-3:30 pm - $15 to players at any skill level from the beginner to the seasoned expert. Free for Senior Passport holders. Karen Gooen has been writing non-fiction for almost forty years — articles ranging The Catskills: Its History and from sports to medicine to travel — but How It Changed America she found her true passion when she sat Stephen Silverman down at a Mah Jongg table. The Catskills are Friday January 29 at JCC - $54 legendary — home Pre-Registration required by January 27 to poets, artists, 10:00 am-12:00 pm Mah Jongg play gangsters, tycoons, (Instruction available upon request.) politicians, preachers, musicians, outcasts 12:00-1:00 pm lunch & book talk and rebels — yet Mah Jongg cards will be available for sale at $9 their centrality to the In collaboration with the Scarsdale American experience has largely gone Adult School and WIZO undiscovered. With the ongoing drama of the region, this book brings it all fully to life Rabbi Avi Weiss – the Catskills’ beauty, charm, vastness, and irresistible idiosyncrasy. Open Up The Iron Door: Memoirs of a Soviet Jewry Activist Stephen Silverman is a Inspired by the cautionary twenty-year veteran editor lesson of the silence of many of Time, Inc. and founding leaders during the Holocaust editor of People.com. and the fearlessness of the Thursday May 26 at JCC Civil Rights movement, from @ 10:30 am-12:00 pm 1964 to 1991 grassroots - $20 activists spearheaded a worldwide liberation Free for Senior Passport holders. effort. The demand? That Jews be allowed to leave the Soviet Union. Unlike other In collaboration with the Scarsdale accounts of this history, Open Up the Iron Adult School Door is a memoir chronicling the activities of those working outside of, and often in opposition to, the Jewish establishment as seen through the loving, fiery, in-the- trenches perspective of Rabbi Avi Weiss.
www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 9 FILMS PUMP: The Movie JCC Documentary, Director: Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell Featuring: Adhemar Altieri, Greg Anderson, Sukkah City Edwin Black (88 min.) Documentary, Director: Jason Hutt Featuring: Joshua Foer (67 min.) An eye-opening documentary The basic that tells the Biblical story of America’s parameters addiction to oil for the sukkah and explains leave plenty clearly and of room for simply how we interpretation can end it – – which and finally win inspired best- choice at the selling author pump. PUMP was Joshua Foer produced by the to challenge Fuel Freedom contemporary Foundation, a architects and nonpartisan group whose mission is to designers to reduce oil consumption in the United come up with a 21st-century vision for States by allowing other transportation the temporary Sukkot hut. This charming fuels like ethanol, methanol and natural documentary traces the competition from gas to compete with gasoline at the pump. the jury process to the construction and Yossie Hollander, Israeli entrepreneur and exhibition of the 12 winning structures in founder of Fuel Freedom Foundation, will New York City’s Union Square. lead a post-screening discussion. Jason Hutt, the film director and producer, In collaboration with AJC Westchester and Rabbi Lester Bronstein from Bet Am Shalom will lead a post-screening discussion. Monday October 19 at JCC @ 7:00-9:30 pm - $10 Dessert in the sukkah (weather permitting) RSVP required. Free for Students. Thursday October 1 at JCC @ 10:30 am-12:30 pm - $15 Bass Clef Bliss Free for Senior Passport holders. Documentary, Director: Patrick Scott, Writer: Michael Berlin Featuring: Terrence Patridge and Therese Davis (70 min.)
A true story of a young man at the intersection of autism, hope and music. At an early age, his speech disappears and his sensitivity to sound triggers frequent tantrums. His music therapist introduces him to the trombone. With the help of caring professionals, he makes a slow and steady progress in his ability to function in the world. Years later, his high school music teacher discovers he has perfect pitch.
10 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 11 Today, his talent and determination open Oro Macht Frei doors for him to go to college and to Documentary, Director: Jeffrey X. Bonna play with symphony orchestras, theater Producers: Joel Markel and Catherine Campbell productions, jazz ensembles and his (70 min.) church choir. This film tells the story of the Roman Jewish experience during the Nazi occupation of Rome (September 1943-June 1944). Weaving testimony Michael Berlin, Executive Producer, will from Roman Jews lead the post-screening discussion together with historical research Wednesday January 6 at JCC by renowned @ 7:30-9:30 pm - $10 scholars, Oro Macht Frei seeks to bring the viewer into The Return a personal and relatable reflection of the Holocaust in Italy through the eyes of this Documentary, English and Polish with English subtitles unique and historic community. Director: Adam Zucker (83 min.) Director Jeffrey Bonna and Producer Joel Markel will lead the post-screening A film about discussion. being young In honor of Yom Ha Shoah and Jewish in (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Poland today. Thursday May 5 at JCC How do you build your @ 1:45-4:00 pm - Free HOW DO YOU BUILD YOUR IDENTITY WHEN YOUR PAST HAS BEEN identity when STRIPPED AWAY? your past has been stripped away? With no access to their A film about being young and Jewish in Poland today A LONGNOOK PICTURES PRODUCTION Sound Design and Mix QUENTIN CHIAPPETTA Colorist KEN SIRULNICK Consulting Producer JACK YOUNGELSON Music by PAUL BRILL and ELIZABETH ZIMAN heritage, four Director of Photography SCOTT ANGER Edited, Directed and Produced by ADAM ZUCKER 7th Art Releasing www.The ReturnDocumentary.com women are forging a new sense of self. In the country that was once the epicenter of the Jewish world, and now regarded as “the Jewish graveyard,” they are figuring out how to be Jewish in today’s Poland. Director Adam Zucker, will lead the post-screening discussion. Sunday January 31 at JCC @ 2:00-4:00 pm - $15
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www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 11 A Borrowed Identity Fiction: Israel, Arabic/Hebrew with subtitles Director: Eran Riklis (104 min.) Based on the best- selling novel Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua, A Borrowed Identity tells the story of Eyad, a young student during the tumultuous years In collaboration with the Jacob Burns surrounding the First Film Center, the JCC of Mid-Westchester Intifada, who must will be screening the highlights of the contend with the social Westchester Film Festival 2015. All isolation and cultural confusion of being the only Arab at an elite films will be screened at the JCCMW. Jerusalem boarding school. However, larger Screenings will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and film experts. Matinee screenings are free for Senior Passport holders. A light lunch will be served @12:30 pm. RSVP required for lunch by calling 914-472-3300 ext. 0. Lunches are sponsored by The Ambassador of Scarsdale The Outrageous Sophie Tucker Documentary, English Director: William Gazecki, Producers: Susan and Lloyd Ecker. social and political forces will push him to Featuring: Barbara Walters, Tony Bennett, Carol make a harrowing decision that will forever Channing, Michael Feinstein (96 min.) alter the fate of two families. This Sophie Tucker enchanted compelling narrative is a universal coming her audiences with her of age tale about identity, acceptance and bold, bawdy, and brassy the transformative power of first love. style. This fun and loving portrait uses the Last of Both screenings will be followed by a the Red Hot Mama’s discussion with Westchester Shlichim 400-plus personal (emissaries) Yoav Cohen and Yael Lewis. scrapbooks to retrace Thursday November 5 at JCC her 60-year showbiz @ 10:30 am-12:00 pm, career. The movie has and 7:30-9:30 pm - $15 everything: the blues- infused songs, sexual Matinee Free for innuendo, infectious charisma, and irreverent Senior Passport holders humor that catapulted Tucker to stardom. Both screenings will be followed by a discussion with Producers Karen and Lloyd Ecker. Thursday September 24 at JCC @ 10:30 am-12:00 pm, and 7:30-9:00 pm - $15 Matinee Free for Senior Passport holders
12 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 13 Deli Man Documentary Director: Erik Greenberg Anjou (92 min.) Laugh your way through hilarious stories of American delicatessens Morning screening will be followed by while drooling a discussion with Karen Sloe Goodman, over the wonderful Film Programmer at the Jacob Burns Film Jewish food being Center. Evening screening sponsored by AJC prepared before Westchester. your eyes in delis Thursday January 21 at JCC from New York to @ 10:30 am-12:30 pm, Chicago to San and 7:30-9:30 pm - $15 Francisco, and even Texas. Erik Greenberg Anjou (A Cantor’s Tale, Matinee Free for The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground) includes Senior Passport holders Ben’s Kosher Deli, a New York institution now with a location in Scarsdale. The Last Mentsch
Both screenings will be followed by a Drama, Germany/Switzerland/France, in discussion with Director Erik Greenberg German/Hungarian/Hebrew with subtitles Anjou. Ronnie Dragoon, owner of Ben’s Deli Director: Pierre-Henry Salfati (93 min.) will also join the morning screening. Jay A provocative Parker, owner of Ben’s Best Deli in Queens meditation on will join the evening Q&A. Lunch will be the making and sponsored by Ben’s Deli. RSVP required. meaning of Thursday December 3 at JCC Jewish identity, @ 10:30 am-12:30 pm, The Last Mentsch and 7:30-9:30 pm - $15 follows Auschwitz survivor Marcus Matinee Free for Schwartz, a Senior Passport holders self-described “normal” German Secrets of War with no Jewish ties, who as an Drama, Netherlands, in Dutch with subtitles old man suddenly Director: Dennis Bots (94 min.) realizes that he While conflict rages wishes to be buried in a Jewish cemetery. across Europe and the For proof of the heritage he’s spent a Nazis have occupied lifetime denying, he must return to his their country, not hometown in Hungary and dig up evidence much has changed for of his birth. two 12-year-old Dutch boys. But when a new Morning screening will be followed by girl arrives in their a discussion with Karen Sloe Goodman, school and reveals a Film Programmer at the Jacob Burns Film very personal secret, Center. Evening screening sponsored by AJC the realities of the wider world come Westchester. into focus, and all three of their lives are Thursday February 25 at JCC changed forever. This very moving, well- @ 10:30 am-12:30 pm, made war drama has been a huge hit in and 7:30-9:30 pm - $15 the Netherlands. Matinee Free for Senior Passport holders
www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 13 CLASSES WOMEN IN CAREER TRANSITION Small Group Facilitated Sessions ISRAEL Join us for four facilitated sessions geared Israel Today: Challenges and toward women interested in encore careers Opportunities – A Frank Discussion who want to be part of a dynamic group of like-minded people to spark ideas, discuss Join Westchester’s Israeli emissary for a options, and provide targeted support candid look at the many “Israels” that exist during their career transition. in our personal and communal worlds. Topics will include: Who lives in Israel: Members will serve as a career brain trust, populations and minorities; Who’s in supporting one another by drawing on Charge: election system and government; the strength of the group to help with What’s Next in Gaza: security and human the potentially daunting aspects of career rights; Shifting Alliances: Israel’s enemies change and transition. and Middle East conflicts and Information Nancy Leighton (MCC, LMHC) Resources: environment, social welfare, is a highly-experienced career law, and more. counselor and coach with a Yoav Cohen, private practice in both Rye Westchester Shaliach and NYC. In Collaboration with Four Thursdays at JCC: WAJE, Westchester October 8 and 22; November 5 and 19 Jewish Council and @ 11:00 am-12:00 pm - Tuition $100 Rosenthal JCC Brown bag lunch optional Five Tuesdays at JCC starting October 27 from 12:00-12:30 pm @ 7:30-9:30 pm - Tuition: $175 (Limited to 10 participants) PARENTING WITH LISA What’s News in Israel? SCHWARTZ AND MELISSA OTERO Understanding Israel and the Middle East with facts in context has been a challenge In collaboration with the for the American Jewish community. This Scarsdale Adult School three-part series led by Dr. Eric Mandel focuses on: Moms’ Morning to Mingle: Discussion Group for New Moms 1. Understanding the Middle East Join us as we discuss all the joys and through maps frustrations of new parenthood! Come 2. The U.S.-Israel relationship after meet other new moms and enjoy the the Iran deal opportunity to share and learn from each 3. Real issues of the Israeli-Palestinian other in an open, non-judgmental setting. conflict and moving ahead Discussion will be guided by two mental health professionals who have experience Dr. Eric Mandel, columnist working with young children and new for the Jerusalem Post and mothers. Topics include: adjusting to founder and Director of new parenthood, sleep training, feeding MEPIN™, the Middle East concerns, working versus staying at home, Political and Information and schedule management. Network™. Six Consecutive Fridays at JCC Three Tuesdays at JCC: starting October 16 March 1, 8, 15 @ 11:00 am-12:30 pm - Tuition: $150 @ 7:30-9:30 pm - Tuition: $75
In collaboration with the Scarsdale Adult School
14 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 15 How to Talk So Your Child JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD WITH Will Listen: A Workshop for ANDREE AELION BROOKS Parents of Teens In collaboration with the Join this class specifically focused on par- Scarsdale Adult School enting teenagers, based on the best-selling book, How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Shattering Stereotypes: Listen So Teens Will Talk by Adele Faber and Renaissance Jewish Women Elaine Mazlish. Move over Tudors! Hear about two equally Explore and tackle the tough issues using amazing Jewish women of sixteenth an innovative approach that helps maintain century Europe. In this two-part mini a candid, open, mutually respectful dialogue course we will explore the incredible lives between parents and teens. It is a strategy of Dona Gracia Nasi, the richest woman that curbs conflict, reduces frustration, in Renaissance Europe, who developed and promotes thoughtful communication an escape network for victims of the about everything from curfews and drugs Inquisition; and Amelia Bassano, reputedly to schoolwork and sex. You will walk the Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets, away with suggestions that are easy to and more recently, understood to be his implement and will help build a foundation collaborator, too. for a healthy relationship that puts the Two Fridays at Scarsdale Public Library, emphasis on rapport rather than reprisals. October 23, 30 Lisa Schwartz, PsyD is a @ 10:00-11:30 am - Tuition: $60 child psychologist and parent educator working Exploring Cuba: in private practice in Its Once and Future Jews Westchester. She has worked in many schools A recent visit to Cuba, plus additional and hospitals in the New research built upon the lecturer’s work York City area and is highly with the conversos (forcibly converted adept at working with Jews) of Central and South America, finds parents and children of all ages. a community in flux. The relaxation of restrictions has resulted in more people Melissa Otero, PsyD is a visiting the island, as well as local Cubans licensed psychologist who coming forward to reclaim a Jewish specializes in childhood heritage. This class will offer an exploration and adolescence. She is of the challenges and opportunities the a graduate of the APA- changes are now raising. Accredited School-Clinical Child Psychology Program Andree Aelion Brooks is of Ferkauf Graduate a journalist, author and School of Psychology, where she earned lecturer currently both her masters and doctoral degrees. specializing in lesser- She currently holds a faculty appointment known topics of Jewish at New York Medical College. history. A former contributing columnist Four Tuesdays at Scarsdale High School, for The New York Times, she starting October 13 (no class Nov 3) is now an Associate Fellow at Yale University @ 8:00-9:30 pm - Tuition: $100 and founder of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale. Her award-winning books include The Woman who Defied Kings, Russian Dance, Out of Spain, and Children of Fast Track Parents. In 2013 she was honored by the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame. Thursday October 8 at Scarsdale High School @ 7:00 - 8:30 pm - Tuition: $25
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UJA-Federation of New York’s Engage Jewish Service Corps is for boomers and beyond who want to effect powerful change within the Jewish community through hands-on volunteering activities. As an Engage volunteer, you can use your skills, expertise, passion, and leadership in a way that fits your schedule and lifestyle. Become part of a community of like-minded people who want to find real solutions to real problems. For more information contact Elizabeth Lampert [email protected] (914) 472-3300 x703
SERVICE PROJECTS BRONX JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL Rosh Hashanah Package Delivery FALL ENGAGE DAY OF SERVICE Sunday September 20 Help fight poverty and hunger in Thanksgiving Lunch Westchester. Group packing projects Thursday November 26 provide food, clothing and other Chanukah Package Delivery necessities to various organizations Sunday November 22 serving clients throughout Westchester, Christmas Day Meal Delivery including veterans, teen mothers Friday December 25 and children. Passover Package Delivery Sunday October 25 Sunday April 10 10:00 am-1:00 pm at JCCMW Mother’s Day Luncheon and Flower Delivery JCCMW SOCIAL ACTION DAY: May 2016 All programs take place in the Bronx TOGETHER WE ARE NOT ALONE Participate in more service projects at JCCMW’s Social Action Day. Bring friends DOROT and have fun while helping others! High Holiday Package Delivery Sunday October 25 Sunday September 20 @ 1:00-4:00 pm - FREE 10:00 am-12:30 pm at JCCMW at JCCMW Shabbat Shalom Westchester KIDS’ KLOSET Deliver Shabbat packages to DOROT’s homebound seniors one Friday a month. Sort clothing for needy children. Drop off the package or stay for a visit. October 2015 and February 2016 Monthly starting Friday November 6, (Dates TBD) morning or afternoon deliveries
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SUPPLEMENTAL PROGRAMS
ENGAGE IN KNITTING DAY TRIP TO LOWER EAST SIDE Shul Stitchers knit blankets and other Visit the Lower East Side Tenement items for those in need. Museum and the fun businesses in the Mondays: October 19; November 16; area like The Pickle Guys. December 21; March 21; April 18; May 16 Wednesday September 30 at Rosenthal JCC at Lower East Side, New York City
ENGAGE IN SONG WISE AGING Engage in Song sing-alongs bring joy to Being 60 years or older can be a time seniors and volunteers. of learning, growth and increased Dreidel Ball for Bronx Jewish well-being. In this 8-week series, Community Council instructor Adrian Strizhak will use texts, December 2015 experiential exercises and discussions to explore the many possibilities that this at Conservative Synagogue of Riverdale stage of life offers. May 2016 at Pelham Parkway NORC (Naturally Adrian Strizhak is a Jewish educator and Occuring Retirement Community) hospital chaplain with a degree from JTS. Eight Wednesday Morning Sessions: October 14, 21, 28; November 4, 11, 18; FOOD BANK FOR WESTCHESTER December 2, 9; No class on November 25 @ 10:30 am-12:00 pm Sort and repack food for delivery to local at Rosenthal JCC food pantries. November 2015 and March 2016 in Elmsford, NY W CONNECTION The W Connection connects widows to MLK DAY HUNGER PROJECT each other. It is generally intended for women who have been widowed for one Pack food to distribute to those in need. year or more, and is not a bereavement Monday January 18 group. Location: TBD Facilitated by Fran Belasco, Engage Volunteer Wednesdays: September 30, October 28, November 18 @ 6:00-7:30 pm at JCCMW
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(Supplemental Programs continued) FILM: SUKKAH CITY NEW! FUTURE PERFECT Have coffee and a snack in the sukkah and then enjoy the movie with other Reenergize, reimagine, repurpose or just Engage volunteers. plain relax with this group of like-minded, See page 10 for more information dynamic women over 50, willing to explore Thursday October 1 the next steps to a more perfect future! @ 9:30 am-12:30 pm Facilitated by Phyllis Alexander, Engage at JCCMW Volunteer, and guest speakers Wednesdays: October 14, November 11, December 9, January 13, February 10, March 9, April 6, May 11, June 8 VOLUNTEER @ 6:00 – 7:30 pm OPPORTUNITIES at JCCMW Help teach kids to read. ENGAGE IN BAKING Visit a homebound senior. The Shabbat Project - Challah Bake Teach a class at the JCC. See page 3 for more information Do pet therapy. Thursday October 22 Tell us what you’d like to do and let us @ 10:30 am-12:30 pm find you an opportunity. at JCCMW Sufganiyot - jelly donuts Contact Elizabeth Lampert, Engage December 2015 Site Coordinator at the JCCMW: [email protected] Hamentaschen or 914-472-3300 x703 March 2016
Did you know that the JCC fitness center has professional personal trainers to meet your fitness needs, adult swim programs, and adult yoga, pilates and dance classes? Schedule a tour today to see what we can do for you! Call 914-472-3300 ext.0
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Daytime programs for seniors 65 and older led by outstanding professionals, offer a variety of stimulating subjects including current events, art, music, films, book reviews, and Jewish and general topics as well as intergenerational holiday celebrations. NEW! Senior Passports are available for those wishing to attend daytime programs on Tuesdays and Thursdays and select Sundays, as well as Men’s Clubs on Wednesdays and Fridays. Please pick up a copy of the Senior Connections Calendar to learn more about senior programs. SENIOR PASSPORTS are available for purchase $180 for a 10 month Passport (Sep-Jun) $150 for a 7 month passport (Sep-Nov and Mar-Jun) Passports are non-transferable and payable in one or two installments
Senior Passport holders are eligible to attend a number of daytime Arts & Talks programs for free. Check out the Event Calendar on pages 20-22 for a listing of events eligible for Senior Passport holders. Non-Passport holders may purchase tickets at the individual prices listed on the Events Calendar. For more information on Senior Connections and Passports please contact Phyllis Kelly at (914) 472-3300 ext 423 or [email protected]. To purchase a Senior Passport please call the front desk at (914) 472-3300 ext 0.
Coming Soon! Israel Film Festival Grandparents, do you have interfaith Join us for our annual Israel Film Festival married children and grandchildren? from June 2-9, in collaboration with the JCC Come to a workshop where you will be able Manhattan. Screenings will be followed by to discuss your concerns. By the end of the discussions with filmmakers. Movie titles, event you will have five tips for effective dates and times TBD. grandparenting. Hebrew Make Room for Latkes: Created by Sarah Spira Rabin, PJ Library, Interested in brushing up on your Hebrew? Washington D.C. and Marion L. Usher. Contact Liat Altman at [email protected] if you’d like to join or lead a Hebrew A fun program for Interfaith and Jewish conversation group. Schedule and level families to have an experience of food, of proficiency TBD. crafts and social justice. Dates TBD Interfaith Families Comedy Act Join us for two interfaith programs with Marion My Son the Waiter; A Jewish Tragedy L. Usher, Ph.D, Creator of Love and Religion: A Workshop for Jews and Their Partners. Check jccmw.org for updated information
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DATE EVENT TIME PRICE LOCATION
SEPTEMBER The Changing Landscape of College Admissions Testing- Mon 9/21 7:30 pm $10 JCC Jed Applerouth in conversation with Cheryl Einhorn Highlights of WJFF ‘15: 10:30 am & Thu 9/24 The Outrageous Sophie Tucker $15 JCC 7:30 pm with Susan and Lloyd Ecker
OCTOBER Film - Sukkah City with Jason Hutt Thu 10/1 10:30 am $15 JCC and Rabbi Lester Bronstein Dennis Ross: Doomed to Suceed - $30, $75 Wed 10/7 The U.S.-Israel Relationship from 7:30 pm JCC Reception Truman to Obama Thu 10/8 Inside the Admissions Office 7:30 pm Free JCC Journey of a Lifetime: Staying Positive through Cancer - Tue 10/13 7:30 pm $10 JCC Deb Ebenstein, Geralyn Lucas and Dr. Subuhee Hussain Film - Pump: The Movie $10 Mon 10/19 7:00 pm JCC with Yossie Hollander Students Free Sherre Hirsch, Thresholds: How to Thrive Tue 10/20 7:30 pm $20 TIC* Through Life Transitions Thu 10/22 The Shabbat Project: Challah Bake 10:30 am $20 JCC Sun 10/25 Social Action Day 1:00 - 4:00 pm Free JCC Prof. Ralph Buultjens: Mon 10/26 Israel at the Crossroads of the Middle 10:30 am $30 JCC East
NOVEMBER Sports Talk: Russell Wolff TBD 7:30 pm $20 JCC in Conversation with Cheryl Einhorn The Supreme Court: A Year in Review Sun 11/1 with James Cole, Arlene Popkin 2:00pm $15 JCC and Cara Gallagher Highlights of WJFF ‘15: 10:30 am & Thu 11/5 A Borrowed Identity with Yoav Cohen $15 JCC 7:30 pm and Yael Lewis Private Sun 11/15 Roger Cohen: The Girl from Human Street 3:00 pm $36 Home* Talkin’ Broadway: Eddie Shapiro and Thu 11/19 Laura Shoop Milowitz in conversation 10:30 am $20 JCC with Jan Svendsen
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DECEMBER Marriage Equality, LGBTQ & Jewish Values: Rabbi Deborah Waxman and Wed 12/2 7:30 pm $20 JCC Seth Marnin in conversation with Rabbi David Schuck Highlights of WJFF ‘15: Deli Man 10:30 am & Thu 12/3 with Erik Greenberg Anjou, Ronnie $15 JCC 7:30 pm Dragoon and Jay Parker
Tue 12/8 Giant Chanukiah Candle Lighting 5:30 pm Free JCC Seth M. Siegel: Let There Be Water Wed 12/16 7:30 pm $20 JCC in conversation with Yoav Cohen Jews Around the World: Shanghai Sun 12/20 2:00 pm $15 JCC with David Goldenberg
JANUARY Wed 1/6 Film - Bass Clef Bliss with Michael Berlin 7:30 pm $10 JCC Jews Around the World: South Africa Sun 1/10 2:00 pm $15 JCC with Lorrain Abramson and Nicky Ziman Alon Gratch: The Israeli Mind Wed 1/13 7:30 pm $20 JCC in conversation with Joseph Berger Highlights of WJFF ‘15: Secrets of War 10:30 am & Thu 1/21 $15 JCC with Karen Sloe Goodman and AJC 7:30 pm Aleena Rieger: Thu 1/28 10:30 am $20 JCC I Did Not Tell Them Anything Karen Gooen: Searching for Bubbe Fischer Fri 1/29 10:00 am $54 JCC - Mah Jongg Play, Lunch, Book Talk Jews Around the World: Poland - Sun 1/31 Screening of Documentary The Return 2:00 pm $15 JCC with Adam Zucker
FEBRUARY Shulem Deen: All Who Go Do Not Return Wed 2/3 7:30 pm $20 JCC with introduction by Lani Santo Prof. Ralph Buultjens: Pacific Wars? Mon 2/8 10:30 am $30 JCC China vs. Japan vs. America Highlights of WJFF’ 15: The Last Mentsch 10:30 am & Thu2/25 $15 JCC with Karen Sloe Goodman and AJC 7:30 pm
*TIC - Temple Israel Center of White Plains *Private home address to be provided upon registration. Daytime Program Free for Senior Passport holders
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MARCH Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Wed 3/2 7:30 pm $20 JCC Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate Sun 3/6 Rabbi Avi Weiss: Open Up the Iron Door 2:00 pm $15 JCC Finding Value in Real Estate: Wed 3/9 Alan Weissman and David Brause 7:30 pm $20 JCC with Cheryl Einhorn Ask the Rabbis: Rabbis Bronstein, Tue 3/29 Morgenstern, Schuck and Sirkman in 7:30 pm $20 JCC conversation with Joseph Berger
APRIL Jews Around the World: Latin America with Nora Glickman (Argentina), Alina Sun 4/3 2:00 pm $15 JCC Nicolaievsky (Mexico), Mercedes Sensel (Venezuela) Thu 4/7 Prof. Ralph Buultjens: Election 2016 7:30 pm $30 JCC Arlene Alda and Daniel Libeskind: Wed 4/13 Just Kids from the Bronx 7:30 pm TBD JCC in conversation with Joseph Berger
MAY Film - Oro Macht Frei - Yom Ha Shoah Thu 5/5 1:45 pm Free JCC with Jeffrey Bonna and Joel Markel Thu 5/5 Witness Theater - Yom Ha Shoah 7:00 pm Free JCC Wed 5/11 Israel @ 68 - Remember and Celebrate 7:00 pm Free JCC Jews Around the World: Iran Sun 5/15 2:00 pm $15 JCC with Hazzan Farid Dardashti Wed 5/18 Dan Ephron: Killing a King 7:30 pm $20 JCC Thu 5/26 Stephen Silverman: The Catskills 10:30 am $20 JCC
JUNE 6/2-6/9 Israel Film Festival TBD — —
Daytime Program Free for Senior Passport holders Scholarships available. Please contact Susan Groner, [email protected], or 914-472-7630 The above calendar is subject to change. Please check www.jccmw.org for the most updated information, or in case of changes due to inclement weather. All ticket sales are final.
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COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR(S) DATES TIME PRICE LOCATION
Thu Women in 11:00 am - Nancy Leighton Oct 8, 22, $100 JCC Career Transition 12:30 pm Nov 5, 19
Exploring Cuba: Andree Aelion 7:00 - Its Once and Thu Oct 8 $25 SHS* Brooks 8:30 pm Future Jews
How to Talk So Your Tue Oct 13, Child Will Listen: Lisa Schwartz and 8:00 - 20, 27; $100 SHS* A Workshop for Melissa Otero 9:30 pm Nov 10 Parents of Teens
Moms’ Morning to Fri Oct 16, Lisa Schwartz and 23, 30; 11:00 am- Mingle: Discussion $150 JCC Melissa Otero Nov 6, 12:30 pm Group for New Moms 13, 20
Shattering Stereotypes: Andree Aelion Fri 10:00 - $60 SPL* Renaissance Jewish Brooks Oct 23, 30 11:30 am Women
Israel Today: Tue Oct 27, Challenges and 7:30 - Yoav Cohen Nov 3, 10, $175 JCC Opportunities 9:30 pm 17, 24 – A Frank Discussion
Tue Mar 1, 7:30 - What’s News in Israel Dr. Eric Mandel $75 JCC 8, 15 9:30 pm
*SHS - Scarsdale High School *SPL - Scarsdale Public Library Scholarships available. Please contact Susan Groner, [email protected], or 914-472-7630. The above calendar is subject to change. Please check www.jccmw.org for the most updated information, or in case of changes due to inclement weather. All ticket sales are final.
www.jccmw.org 914-472-3300 23 We are grateful for the support of our Sponsors, Community Partners, Committee Members and Board of Directors.
Arts & Talks Sponsors Community Partners (in formation) Anti-Defamation League (ADL) American Jewish Committee Visionary of the Arts (AJC Westchester) BBYO The Ambassador of Scarsdale Bet Am Shalom UJA Federation of New York Beth El Synagogue Center Bronx Jewish Community Council Patron of the Arts The Cancer Support Team Anonymous Dorot Eileen and Jay Bloom Engage Jewish Service Corps Joyce and Fred Claar Food Bank for Westchester Meredith and Joel Gantcher Footsteps Joy Henshel Hebrew Institute of White Plains Sheila and Robert Friedland Hillels of Westchester Karen and Jay Kasner Jewish Book Council Nancy and Paul Levy JCC on the Hudson Rachel and Harry Moseley JCC of Harrison Ellen Reinheimer and Barry Lovell JCC Manhattan Rebecca and Lee Miller Jewish National Fund (JNF) Laura and Michael Miller Jacob Burns Film Center New York Council for the Humanities Larchmont Temple Ellen and Peter Weintraub Mosaic of Westchester Rosenthal JCC People of the Book SAR Academy Anonymous Scarsdale Adult School Ben’s Deli Schechter Westchester Sandra and Dan Costin Selfhelp Martine and Stanley Fleishman StandWithUs Alina and Arturo Nicolaievsky Temple Israel Center of White Plains Susan and Andy Sterling UJA Federation of New York Ilissa and Paul Warhit Westchester Jewish Adult Education (WAJE) Westchester Jewish Council (WJC) Page Turner Westechester Jewish Teen Learning Initiative (WJTLI) Stephanie and Andy Kirwan White Plains Hospital Cancer Program Karen Kolodny and Hank Amon WIZO Susan and Joe Rozin WJCS Kids’ Kloset Barbara and Howard Weiner WJCS Senior Programs Young Israel of Scarsdale Sponsorships received after date of publication will be acknowledged online and at the JCC.
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SPONSORSHIP You can still support a season of Arts & Talks this year. The benefits of sponsorship are listed below. Make a secure gift online by selecting Arts & Talks Sponsorships on our website, mail a check or call the JCCMW to donate by credit card. For more information contact Liat Altman at [email protected] or (914) 472-7672. $5,000+ Visionary of the Arts Name listing in online marketing materials, a total of 20 tickets; reserved seating in the theater $3,600 Benefactor of the Arts Name listing in online marketing materials, a total of 16 tickets; reserved seating in the theater $1,000 Patron of the Arts Name listing in online marketing materials, a total 8 tickets $500 People of the Book Name listing in online marketing materials, a total of 4 tickets $250 Page Turner Name listing in online marketing materials, a total of 2 tickets
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