Bank of America Festival of Arts, Books & Culture Brochure 2017
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AliceAlice CarolCarol OzOz HoffmanHoffman LeiferLeifer PearlmanPearlman NOVEMBER 5-12, 2017 Stephen Tobolowsky Nicole Krauss Michael Roizen Steve Dorff www.katzjcc.org/abcfest NOV Dr. Michael F. Roizen FREE!FREE! Age-Proof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip 10:00 am • Lahn Social Hall Sponsored by Healthcare Quality Strategies, Inc. SUNDAY 5 Dr. Michael Roizen, Cleveland Clinic Chief Wellness Officer and frequent guest on The Dr. Oz Show, explains the vital link between health and wealth. Written with Today Show Financial Editor, Jean Chatzky, their light and easy writing style and extremely practical advice will leave you with an actionable plan to add years to your life and dollars to your bank account. Just for Kids Jodi Lee Berman FREE!FREE! Tales of the Giant Cookie: The Playground 11:15 am • Family Activity Center Sponsored by Safety Bus Service The Giant Cookie would love to join all the fun with the kids, but his enormous size just won’t let him! Join him on his adventures at the playground when all the children must learn to work together and share to include him in the fun. Stay around after this interactive story time to decorate cookies. Smart, Sweet and Sassy 11:30 am • Lahn Social Hall Sponsored by Classic Cake Moderated by Caroline Fortin, Founder / CEO of Mama Said Amy Kritzer, founder of What Jew Wanna Eat and owner of ModernTribe, is an innovative young chef with the heart of a balaboosta who puts a modern twist on Jewish cuisine. Her new cookbook, Sweet Noshings, brings traditional Jewish desserts into the 21st century with recipes like chocolate halva hamentaschen and drunken honey-pomegranate cake. Jen Glantz is the brains behind the business Bridesmaid for Hire, which takes the drama out of wedding planning for the modern bride. She is the heart behind the blog The Things I Learned From, the main character in the Amazon best-seller All My Friends are Engaged and a budding entrepreneur. $10 JCC Member / $12 Guest All week long, enter to win a stunning David Yurman bracelet, graciously provided by Jay Roberts Jewelers. Must be present at Oz Pearlman on Saturday, November 11 to win. Tom Burgoyne and Evan Marcus Pheel the Love! NOV 1:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall Sponsored by SHM Financial Group The Phillie Phanatic is the most successful mascot in sports, SUNDAY 5 known and loved throughout the world. In this powerful and engaging book, Tom Burgoyne, the Phanatic’s “Best Friend” for nearly three decades, and Evan Marcus, an acknowledged expert on corporate culture and high-performing leadership teams, make the business case for love first by showcasing the undeniable, unabashed fondness millions have for the Phillie Phanatic. Their “Pheel the Love Principles” are sage advice for all ages in your personal and professional life. $10 JCC Member / $12 Guest Special appearance by the Phillie Phanatic! Carol Leifer SPOTLIGHT 7:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall EVENT Sponsored by The Heart House Carol Leifer is an acclaimed stand-up comedian and Emmy nominated writer, named “one of the best comedic minds of our time” by The Washington Post. She is a trailblazer in the “old boys club” world of comedy whose credits include Saturday Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show and the show that has been exalted as “the greatest sitcom of all time,” Seinfeld. She is a regular writer for the Academy Awards and has written for stars including Billy Crystal, Chris Rock, Whoopi Goldberg and Ellen DeGeneres. As an actress, Leifer starred in the sitcom Alright, Already and made guest appearances on Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Naked Truth, The Howard Stern Show and Will & Grace. Drawing on her skill as a comedy writer and stand-up comedian, she brings her renowned wit to audiences and explores aging gracefully, love, parenthood, family matters and the world of Jewish humor. Guaranteed to make you laugh your tuchas off! $30 JCC Member / $35 Guest Appel Art Gallery Reception Tuesday, November 7 • 6:00 PM FREE!FREE! Sponsored by Double Tree Guest Suites Vardit Dafni is an Israeli artist who Moshe Monzon Stacey Mittleberg designs and creates colorful metal creates magnificent and Janet Silverman, art items for the tapestries that founders of Pieces home and come to life with by Stacey n Janet, public space. their dazzling specialize in custom colors and handmade pieces shapes. from sterling silver to beaded work. Inspirational Memoirs by Local Gems NOV 9:30 am • Lahn Social Hall Sponsored by Gladfelter Family Foundation Rea Bochner – The Cape House: A Memoir In this candid memoir, Bochner shares her mother’s last six weeks of life in their Cape Cod summer home. With a unique and remarkable 6 writing style, Bochner recalls with sensitivity and humor her struggle with food MONDAY addiction, recovery and redemption with her mother and family by her side. Fred Behrend - Rebuilt from Broken Glass: A German Jewish Life Remade in America Behrend’s childhood came to a crashing end with Kristallnacht and his father’s internment in a concentration camp, but he would not be defined by these harrowing circumstances. He went from a sheltered life of wealth in Germany to a poor Jewish immigrant in New York City. Upon returning from service in the US Army, he built a successful business for his life and family. $10 JCC Member / $12 Guest SPECIAL: See Local Gems and Stars together for $18 / $22 Fantastic Fiction by Local Stars BooK Sponsored by SJ Magazine CLUB 11:00 am • Lahn Social Hall PICK Pam Jenoff – The Orphan’s Tale The New York Times bestselling author returns to share the story of 16 year old Noa who has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and forced to give up her baby. After snatching a baby from a boxcar of Jewish infants, she finds refuge with a German circus. Will the secrets she carries be enough to save her? Janet Benton – Lilli De Jong Benton brings to life the story of an unwed mother in 1883 who refuses to give up her child. She braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep herself and her baby alive. Lilli is an intimate portrayal of love and a testament to the dedication and courage of mothers. $10 JCC Member / $12 Guest Bill Green All In: 101 Real-Life Business Lessons For Emerging Entrepreneurs 7:30 pm • Lahn Social Hall Sponsored by Resintech It started out as a letter to his son, but Green soon realized that he had a message for all aspiring entrepreneurs: fully commit to whatever you do in business and in life. Green has carved a reputation for going hard or going home in everything he does. Born with a passion for maxing out his potential, Green was selling cookies door-to-door before he could read. As a paperboy, he cornered the market by working for every newspaper in town. From flea market table to multi-million dollar business, Green has the key to success and is willing to share it with humor, humility, and passion. $15 JCC Member / $18 Guest In conjunction with Ellen Umansky BooK CLUB NOV The Fortunate Ones PICK 9:30 am • Lahn Social Hall Sponsored by Creative Print Group, Inc. Travel from World War II Vienna to modern-day Los Angeles in this enthralling debut novel of longing, devastation and forgiveness. TUESDAY 7 One very special work of art, a Chaim Soutine painting, will connect the lives of two different women generations apart. The women embark in an unexpected friendship, revealing long-held secrets that hold painful truths. $10 JCC Member / $12 Guest SPECIAL: See Umansky/Carroll together for $18 / $22 Leah Carroll Down City 11:00 am • Lahn Social Hall Sponsored by Rehab Connection When Leah Carroll was four years old, her mother, a gifted amateur photographer, was brutally murdered by two drug dealers with mafia connections. Her father, a charming alcoholic who went from depression to mania, was dead by the time she was 18. In this moving memoir, Carroll searches for truth about her parents, allowing them to exist beyond their weaknesses. $10 JCC Member / $12 Guest Goldie and Moshe Monzon From Monzon to Jerusalem and Beyond 5:30 pm • Family Activity Center Moshe and Goldie Monzon will share stories of their fascinating ancestral history in Europe and their journey to Israel in a multi-media presentation. Alice Hoffman BooK CLUB The Rules of Magic: A Novel PICK 7:30 pm • Lahn Social Hall Sponsored by Townsend Press / Judith Nadell & Jon Langan From beloved and prolific author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic. The enchanting, long-awaited prequel reveals the Owens family history. For all family members, love is a curse that began in 1620 when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Thrilling and exquisite, real and fantastical, The Rules of Magic is a story about the power of love, reminding us that the only remedy for being human is to be true to yourself. $15 JCC Member / $18 Guest NOV Lynda Schuster Dirty Wars and Polished Silver 9:30 am • Lahn Social Hall Sponsored by Hutchinson Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling A former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Schuster 8WEDNESDAY was certain life was happening elsewhere outside of Detroit in the 1970’s. Her exuberant memoir chronicles life as a foreign correspondent in war-torn countries and as the wife of a U.S. Ambassador. She spent time working on a kibbutz in Israel, reported on uprisings in Central America, a financial crisis in Mexico, dodged rocket fire in Lebanon and grieved the loss of her first husband.