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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.
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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, SUNDAY5 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.
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about her parents, allowing them to exist beyond their weaknesses. beyond exist them to allowing about her parents, amateur photographer, with mafia drug dealers two by was brutally murdered depression from who went a charming alcoholic father, Her connections. truth for searches Carroll memoir, In this moving 18. the time she was dead by mania, was to history in Europe and their journey to Israel in a multi-media presentation. Israel to and their journey in Europe history Moshe and Goldie Monzon will share stories of their fascinating ancestral ancestral fascinating of their stories Monzon will share Moshe and Goldie Family Activity Center Activity 5:30 pm • Family From Monzon to Jerusalem and Beyond Jerusalem Monzon to From Goldie and Moshe Monzon Goldie and Moshe $10 JCC Member / $12 Guest $10 JCC
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for which he penned (continued on the following page) is a great read for musicians, music Any Which Way but Loose Growing Pains, Major Dad, Murder She Wrote, (Los Angeles, CA) is a Grammy-nominee songwriter with a long line of hits to his (Los Angeles, CA) is a Grammy-nominee songwriters of the last four decades—Steve Dorff. Josephine). Chronicling his four decades behind the music, Steve Dorff The endearing, funny, and rich memoir of one of the top and several films, including was the hit of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe, earned five-star reviews, and has been produced I Wrote That One, Too . . . A Life in Songwriting from Willie to Whitney by Steve Dorff with Colette Freedman Backbeat Books One of the most successful songwriters and composers of the last 25 years, Steve world, around the artists country pop and hits for 20 Top 10 over has penned Dorff including Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Blake Shelton, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Anne Murray, Whitney Houston, George Strait, Dolly Parton, Judy Collins, Cher, Dusty Springfield, Ringo Starr, and Garth Brooks. He has scored for television shows, including Reba, STEVE DORFF Let’s “Baby, Brooks’ Garth recently most and Years” the “Through Rogers’ Kenny including credit, Lay Down and Dance.” An industry stalwart with a career spanning four decades, Dorff is the recipient of 40 BMI awards and 11 Billboard awards. COLETTE FREEDMAN (Los Angeles, CA) is an internationally produced playwright with over 25 Guild. Her play produced plays. She was voted “One of 50 to Watch” by the Dramatist’s Cities internationally. She has cowritten a number of books with such best-selling writers as Jackie Collins and Michael Scott, and has written two novels, The Affair and The Consequences. the titular song, and more recently, he has embarked on Broadway (forthcoming musical gives anecdotes, advice, and insights into his journey. The book follows Steve from Los in arrival his eventual to Nashville and to Manhattan to Queens in childhood his Angeles, California. Oftentimes, songs are attributed to the singers who perform them, but it is the songwriter who really knows the story behind the story from wisdom, and stories, hard-earned of heartfelt to execution. Full conception delightful wit, I Wrote That One, Too . . . fans, and whoever has chased their dreams and survived the surprising but often serendipitous turns in the road. CONTACT INFORMATION
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12SUNDAY You know him when you see him! USA Today listed Stephen as the 9th most frequently seen actor in movies. He has appeared in over 200 movies and television shows including Groundhog Day, Memento, Sneakers, and Freaky Friday. On television, he has been on Seinfeld, Deadwood, Heroes, Glee, Californication and is currently on screen in Silicon Valley and The Goldbergs. His book takes a deep look at his relationship with G-d after a near death accident and shares his introspection with humor and insight that will leave his fans in awe. $15 JCC Member / $18 Guest
Community Wide Kristallnacht Observance Noah Lederman FREE!FREE! A World Erased 11:30 am • Lahn Social Hall Sponsored by Marvin Samson Foundation In this third-generation perspective on the Holocaust, Lederman takes readers from his grandparents’ kitchen table to World War II Poland. After the death of his grandfather, his grandmother recoils in depression until Noah returns from a forbidden trip to Poland. Together, Noah and his grandmother explore the memories of the war and bring her back to life. In conjunction with JCRC’s A Special Thank You to our Sponsors for their Generous and Continued Support! SPONSORS NAMING SPONSOR
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Be a Book Club Insider Save the Date Register, Read and Review Register your book club and receive special discounts on tickets. Pre-order books for your club to read before the event. SUNDAY, JANUARY 21 Visit katzjcc.org/abcfest for details! Lou Cove Man of the Year Cove, senior advisor at the Harold BooK Grinspoon CLUB Foundation, reveals PICK how his campaign to get Mr. November voted Man of the Pam Jenoff Janet Benton Year in 1979 when he was 12 years The Orphan’s Tale Lilli de Jong old, launched his very successful 11/6 11/6 campaign career raising millions of dollars for organizations around the world.
MONDAY, MARCH 6 Alan Zweibel For This We Left Egypt?
Ellen Umansky Alice Hoffman Marie Benedict Zweibel, a writer for The Fortunate Ones The Rules of Magic The Other Einstein Saturday Night Live, 11/7 11/7 11/8 will share his newest book, a parody of the Hagaddah. Be prepared to be entertained by another version of the book that will bring a whole new meaning to tradition.
Rachel Kadish Nicole Krauss Marilyn Simon Rothstein The Weight of Ink Forest Dark Lift and Separate 11/8 11/9 11/9