JEWISH book arts FAIR 33rd Annual 33rd
October 30 – November 13, 2005
Underwritten by The Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation The Jewish Community Center of Houston Funded by The Jewish Community Center of Houston’s Patrons of the Arts • OPEN TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY 5601 South Braeswood Houston, Texas 77096 713-729-3200 • www.Jcchouston.org Bookstore Hours 2005 Jewish Book and Arts Fair Steering Committee SUN - THU 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Chair Co-Chair FRI 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Joyce Gilbert Susan Farb Morris SAT 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Arts and Culture Films Program Steering Committee Norri Leder Daniel Musher Book signing after each program Bobbi Samuels, Chair Susan Schneider Hospitality Book Store Volunteer Managers June Pool Program Volunteers Evelyn Ballard Bonnie Cohen ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE Hosts Peggy and Mel Fine Linda Chess Myrna Aber RECOMMENDED Louise Kershman Susan Altschuler Publicity Ruth Morris Dita Dafny Barbara Rosenberg Sheila Sack Series Tickets may be purchased by using one of Leah Lax Cindy Sax the following options: Cynthia Stetzer Glenda Waldman Beverly Sufian Pam Pearl Purchase tickets online at Sponsors Brochure Marketing and Outreach www. .org Simone Berry or Norri Leder Bunny Radoff Dede Mayer Karen Bodner IN PERSON: Music Sue Goott Visit the JCC Information Desk Book Selection Janice Rubin Olga Gordon or come to the box office 30 minutes prior Barbara Lindenberg Jill Reichman Patron Campaign to the start of a program. Children’s Terry Cominsky Marci Rosenberg Teri Straus BY PHONE: Books and Programs Eve Lapin Patron Events Purchase your tickets by calling 713-551-7255 Store Design Lauri Sack Stella Blumenthal Relda Finger-Hoffer Donna Frankoff Orna Feinstein SAVE MONEY ON PROGRAMS Memorial Lecture Carol Samet Buy a Book and Arts Fair Series Ticket Richard Frankoff Lyn Schmulen $42 JCC Members/$62 Public $5 Discount for Seniors/Students Jewish Community Center $1 Discount for seniors & students on single tickets President Arts and Culture Assistant Marketing and Development Nancy Lerner Bethany Daniels Director Debra Shniderson Executive Vice President Book Store Manager Book and Arts Fair authors and special presentations Jerry Wische Barbara Lindenberg Marketing and Public Relations take place in the I.W. Marks Theatre Center Associate Executive Director Melissa Gordon and the Oshman Gymnasium Dance Director Stuart Raynor Maxine Silberstein at the Jewish Community Center Communications Coordinator Program Director Donna Rappaport Joe Weingarten Building Arts and Culture Assistant Dance Director 5601 South Braeswood Marilyn Hassid Linda Gomez Marketing and Development Assistant Theatre Manager Arts and Culture Program Leigh Savage The Jewish Community Center of Houston's Coordinator Jerry Lynch Jewish Book and Arts Fair Jennifer Handy is a member of the Jewish Book Fair Network. Thank you to the Jewish Book Council Director, Sponsoring Organizations Carolyn Starman Hessel and Miri Pomerantz AIA Houston • American Jewish Committee • AJC Women’s Dialogue American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) • American Society for Technion The following authors appear in cooperation Anti-Defamation League • B & P One/B & P Connections of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston with the Beren Academy • Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance • Camp Young Judaea - Texas Chevra Kadisha • Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Congregation Beth Israel Brotherhood • Congregation Beth Israel Sisterhood • Congregation Beth Rambam Matthew Goodman Congregation Beth Yeshurun Sisterhood • Congregation Beth Yeshurun Brotherhood • Congregation Brith Shalom Sisterhood Congregation Emanu El Sisterhood • Congregation Shaar Hashalom Sisterhood • Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest Azriela Jaffe The Emery/Weiner School •Hebrew Speakers Professional Organization • Holocaust Museum Houston Eric Konigsberg Houston Chapter of Hadassah • Houston Council of Jewish Holocaust Survivors • Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism Houston Friends of Yiddish • Houston Hillel • Houston Kashruth Association • Jewish Family Service Laurel Leff Jewish Feminist Reading Group • Jewish Genealogical Society • Jewish Information Center of Houston Daniel Libeskind Jewish Women International • Meyerland Minyan • Monday Dialogues National Council of Jewish Women – Greater Houston Section Jennifer Miller Pearl Schwartz – Houston Chapter of AMIT • Six Mothers • Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services • State of Israel Bonds Abigail Pogrebin Temple Beth Torah • Texas Jewish Historical Society • United Orthodox Synagogues Adult Education Committee United Orthodox Synagogues Sisterhood • West Houston Lodge of B’nai B’rith Shulamit Reinharz Women’s Division Jewish Federation of Greater Houston • Yiddish Vinkel • Young Israel of Houston Rabbi Shlomo Riskin The Young Mom’s Alliance of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Naomi Rosenblatt Thank you to our Day Chairs Ilan Stavans Marsha Abramson • Maida Asofsky • Bernice Blum • Karen Krinsky Collman• Stuart Diamond • Beverly Fanarof Ellen Hamberg • Julie Hershorn • Carol Hershkowitz • Sharon Kagan • Barbara Kalmans • Annette Kavin • Nadia Leibovitz Judith Viorst Marilyn Leiman • Ellen Leventhal • Steven Miller • Ruth Morris • Cookie Portnoy • Ruth Rabie • Sheila Sack Ellen Trachtenberg • Lea Weems Due to circumstances beyond our control Thank you to our Set Up Committee programs are subject to change. Martha Barvin • Sandy Block • Stella Blumenthal • Ellen DeLap • Arza Funk • Amira Reiter • Naomi Rosner • Mignon Wolf Bookstore Design by Marc A. Gessner • Brochure Design by Diandra Ellis 33rd Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 FILM Judith Viorst Watermarks 2:00 P.M. 4:30 P.M. Israel, 2004, 77 min, Hebrew, German and English I’m Too Young To Be Seventy with English subtitles and Other Delusions Judith Viorst, the beloved bestselling author of Director: Yaron Zilberman Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty, now Back by popular demand after being shown in tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with her March at the Houston Jewish Film Festival, Watermarks is the usual wry good humor. Fans of Viorst’s funny poems about story of seven champion women swimmers from the legendary turning 30, 40, 50 and 60 will laugh again as she explores the Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. In 1938, the swimmers fled pleasures of shopping, grandparenthood, and being married Austria after the Nazis shut down the club. Sixty-five years later, while thermostatically incompatible. I’m Too Young To Be director Yaron Zilberman interviewed the women in their Seventy makes a heartwarming gift for anyone who has homes around the world and arranged a reunion for them at reached or is soon to reach their 70th birthday. their old swimming pool in Vienna. Told by the swimmers, Sponsored by Betsy and Ed Schreiber Watermarks is the remarkable saga of seven courageous athletes who still swim daily as they age with grace. Best Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Cinematography at the Jerusalem International Film Festival. June Levitt Nislick Free to Series Ticket Holders • $6 JCC Member • $8 Public 4:00 P.M. AGES 8-12 Senator Barbara Boxer Zayda Was a Cowboy 8:00 P.M. Author program and family Kosher BBQ A Time to Run Hear this extraordinary story of how one family and one young boy in particular are changed Written with an insider’s perspective, Senator forever when Zayda (Yiddish for grandfather) comes to live Barbara Boxer’s remarkable literary debut is an with them. Zayda’s saga of how he left Russia and later became authentic, compelling novel of a woman’s life a cowboy will entrance young readers, their parents and in the U.S. Senate. When Ellen Fines’ husband teachers. While the characters are fictional, Zayda’s experiences is killed, Ellen assumes his candidacy for the U.S. Senate and are historically correct and are a colorful retelling of a wins. On the eve of a crucial vote, Ellen’s former lover gives her fascinating yet little-known time in Jewish-American history. documents that could make or break her career. Writing with This funny, touching and memorable book is destined to be a Mary-Rose Hayes, Boxer tells an exciting tale of friendship and favorite for years to come. betrayal, idealism and pragmatism, infighting and public spin. Boxer, who has served as California’s Democratic senator since Underwritten by Shirley and Bruce Stein 1993, is one of the most admired and respected figures on the $8 JCC Member Family • $12 Public Family political scene. Underwritten by The Pulaski Rauch Fund Houston Children Paint Israel Free to Series Ticket Holders • $13 JCC Member • $18 Public 2:00 – 4:00 P.M.
Open workshop for students in grades 1-12 to create a drawing or painting for the art contest (materials provided).
Exhibition Opening • Deutser Gallery Sunday, December 4 Please help feed the most vulnerable Jewish Community Center • 3:30 P.M. of our population, homebound seniors, by bringing canned food items to the JCC This project is partially underwritten with funding from the Houston Jewish Community Foundation. Sponsored by Young Israel of on Sunday, October 30. Collection boxes Houston and The Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest will be located in the Lobby.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 David Klinghoffer Shulamit Reinharz 8:00 P.M. 6:15 P.M.
Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: American Jewish Women and the The Turning Point in Western History Zionist Enterprise Author of The Lord Will Gather Me In, a Shulamit Reinharz, founding director of the finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, David Klinghoffer Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and professor at Brandeis University, gives a dramatic historical account of the Jewish-Christian debate has written the first and only complete exploration of the American on Jesus as the Messiah. Klinghoffer, an Orthodox Jew, revives Jewish woman’s role in the creation and support of the state of the ancient tradition of disputation to explain the Jewish rejection Israel from pre-state years through Israel’s first decades. Despite a of Jesus. His lively account of the Jewish-Christian debate will historical record of American Jewish women’s involvement with intrigue anyone who wants to know why Western history took early Zionism and Palestine, this topic has received scant scholarly the course it did. attention. Rich in personal stories and eyewitness documents, this Sponsored by Sheila and Gordon Sack book clarifies that historical record. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Sponsors: Barbara and Victor Samuels B & P Connections of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Naomi Rosenblatt Jewish Teen Israel Advocacy Program 7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. This Book & Arts Fair program for teens will provide the After the Apple opportunity to gain knowledge and explore the many different Women in the Bible: Timeless Stories of Love, Lust and Longing educational, political and cultural facets of Israeli society. Each of the evening’s activities has been created with the input of select Leah, Rachel, Sarah, Delilah, and Jezebel are Jewish teen leaders in the Houston Jewish community. Biblical women whose lives would be The Israel Programs Fair will be open from 6:00–9:30 p.m. scorchingfare on TV talk shows. Two examples: A mother must Parents are welcome to visit during this time. choose between two sons. A daughter begs her father to rescue Sponsors her from a sexually abusive brother. These courageous, intelligent Bureau of Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston JCC Teen Services Department/The Merfish Teen Center women seduced, tricked and subverted authority to give birth, to Young Judaea protect their children, to win their husband’s love, and to ensure the survival of the human race. Women today will identify with Jake Steinfeld their struggles to love, mother, and succeed in a complicated and 8:00 P.M. dangerous world. I’ve Seen a Lot of Famous People Naked, Bring a used children's book or purchase a children's book in the and They’ve Got Nothing on You! Bookstore to support the Jewish Women's International children's Business Secrets from the Ultimate Street book initiative. Smart Entrepreneur Donna Frankoff Memorial Lecture Think of this book as “Business by Jake.” After Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public learning what makes successful people tick, Jake Steinfeld turned his fitness program into the half-billion dollar “Body by Jake,” a 24-hour cable TV presence, and instant recognition wherever he goes. The book, an entrepreneur’s toolkit, with exclusive anecdotes about Steven Spielberg, Tommy Hilfiger, and Aaron Spelling, also gives a motivational Save Money on Programs kick in the “Buttissimo” that is pure Jake. Steinfeld’s message Buy a Book and Arts Fair Series Ticket is simple: If he can do it, anyone can. So get pumped, don’t www. .org quit, and start flexing your business muscles. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Deborah Lipstadt JT Waldman 8:00 P.M. 1:00 P.M. History on Trial: My Day in Court with The Merfish Teen Center, 9000 South Rice Ave. David Irving Deborah Lipstadt, an acclaimed author, Megillat Esther professor, and media commentator on Jewish In the ancient world of Persia, a buffoon king matters, is also an expert on the Holocaust appoints a new advisor who escalates a personal grudge to denial movement. When she called David Irving, a well-known racial genocide. Only the beautiful Queen Esther can writer on World War II, a Holocaust denier, he sued her and her intercede to save her people and restore peace to the empire. publisher, Penguin UK, for libel in a London courtroom. Five Graphic novelist JT Waldman has created what is probably the years later, Lipstadt won a resounding victory. This book, a world’s first religious, scholarly comic book telling the epic tale riveting chronicle of that legal battle, is also an inspiring personal of exile and redemption. Waldman’s interpretation of The story of perseverance and the definitive account of the trial that Book of Esther is a visual tour de force and features Hebrew tested the standards of historical and judicial truths. text with original English translation. Woven throughout the panels are traditional Rabbinic interpretations of this story and Underwritten by The Rosita and Albert Gaon Jewish Heritage Fund allusions to more esoteric Midrash. Sponsors: Ann and Stephen Kaufman Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Olga Lara Karol and Daniel Musher Kosher Lunch at 12:30 p.m. with reservations by calling 713-729-3200, Ext. 3231. $7.50 Free to Series Ticket Holders • $9 JCC Member • $12 Public Marissa Moss FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 4:30 P.M. AGES 9-11 Matthew Goodman Amelia’s Notebook 12 Noon Through her words and pictures, 9-year-old Amelia Jewish Food: The World at Table shares her insights on moving and adjusting to a new home and school. Author Marissa Moss says that her Relish the more than 170 delicious recipes from childhood inspired her to write about Amelia, the beloved 29 countries handed down through the character that kids across the country adore. Moss also has generations. From the familiar kugel and applied her notebook format to historical characters in the Young chopped liver to the exotic Turkish borekas, flaky cheese-filled American Voices Series. Get a preview of Amelia, along with turnovers; shtritzlach, a blueberry pastry unique to Toronto; some great ideas for journaling at www.marissamoss.com. Syrian Bulgar Salad with Pomegranate Molasses; and Italian $5 JCC Member Family • $7 Public Family Baked Ricotta Pudding, this book accompanied by essays, presents the history of Jewish food in all its richness and variety. More than a cookbook, this is a book to learn from, Abigail Pogrebin cook with and to pass on through the ages. Goodman writes 6:15 P.M. JCC Community Read the “Food Maven” column for The Forward. Stars of David: Prominent Jews Sponsored by Terry and Richard Rubin Talk About Being Jewish Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public This book is a remarkable collection of the intimate reflections of famous Jews about their Jewish identity. Dustin Hoffman, Gene Wilder, Joan Rivers, and Leonard Nimoy talk about their startling encounters with anti-Semitism. Watch for the grand re-opening Steven Spielberg, Eliot Spitzer, and Ronald Perelman explore the challenges of intermarriage. Mike Wallace and Natalie Portman of the JCC Gift Shop discuss their attitudes toward Israel. A mix of entertaining stories Featuring and universal topics, this book will launch the JCC Arts and Culture Humanities Institute’s first Community Read. Book clubs BOOKS • JUDAICA • MUSIC and independent readers are invited to join. Sponsored by Susan and Jack Lapin December 2005 Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public 5 33rd Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair Spend the Day at the Where there’s something for everyone all day FAMILY FUN DAY Sunday, November 6 Family Fun Day is underwritten in loving memory of Oliver Lapin by his family and friends
AGES 3 - 8 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Rainey (Lorraine Friedman) $3 JCC Member/$5 Public Monsters in Your Bed... Monsters in Your Head... Jazz the DreamDog
AGES 4 - 8 Fun activities Adult 1:00 p.m. throughout Programming the day Barbara Diamond Goldin ongoing While the Candles Burn: throughout Eight Stories for Hanukkah the day
meet kids’ korner kate GUMBO & Sid the AGES 7 and up Storyteller LIVE MUSIC IN THE CAFE at the J 4:00 p.m. 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Gumbo is a sur Tami Lehman - Wilzig Stir in a delicious mix of New Orleans jazz and blues along e-firewith ther music of Frank Tasty Bible Stories ecipe for good times. Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, presentation and Jimmy Reed and Big Joe Turner cooking
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Barbara Diamond Goldin Avishai Cohen - Concert 1:00 P.M. AGES 4-8 8:00 P.M. While the Candles Burn: Eight Stories for Hanukkah Musician Avishai Cohen, a.k.a. the world’s Author presentation, signing, and Hanukkah Crafts greatest living jazz bassist, has been called a jazz visionary of global proportions by Downbeat Barbara Diamond Goldin is the author of 17 magazine, and one of the 100 most influential published children's books, 14 in the area of Judaica. In 1997, bass players of the 20th century by Bass Player magazine. His she received the prestigious Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work latest recording, the compelling and striking “At Home,” features Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries, an award 11 new compositions from Cohen and is the bassist/composer’s presented to the author whose collected works are a sixth recording as a leader. Whether in New York, Israel, playing distinguished contribution to Jewish literature for children. with jazz greats like Chick Corea, or on the road with his music, While the Candles Burn offers one story for each night of Cohen is at home. Hanukkah, original and traditional, that portrays timeless themes of commitment, courage, lights, and miracles as well Underwritten by The Maurice Amado Foundation as issues as contemporary as today’s headlines. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $13 JCC Member • $18 Public Stuart Yudofsky SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 2:00 P.M. Sid Shachnow Fatal Flaws: Navigating Destructive 11:00 A.M. Relationships with People with Disorders Hope and Honor of Personality and Character This powerful memoir takes us to the notorious Encompassing case vignettes based on Kovno concentration camp, Retired U.S. Army composites of numerous patients from Dr. Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow’s childhood home. Yudofsky's 30 years of clinical practice, Fatal We are with him on his escape at age 10, his return to the family Flaws uniquely and vividly captures essential clinical and home in Lithuania, his trek across Europe to the U.S. zone in research information that brings to life the psychopathologies of Germany, and then to America, where he worked his way people with the "fatal flaws" of personality and character. Dr. through school and enlisted in the U.S. Army. From surviving Yudofsky is the D.C. and Irene Ellwood Professor and Chairman Hitler’s Holocaust to his heroism in Vietnam to commander of the of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry Services at The U.S. Army Special Forces, his story is one of hope and honor. Methodist Hospital. Sponsored by Rosita and Albert Gaon Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Tami Lehman-Wilzig 4:00 P.M. AGES 7 AND UP Rainey (Lorraine Friedman) 11:00 A.M. AGES 3-8 Tasty Bible Stories: A Menu of Tales & Matching Recipes Monsters in Your Bed… Presentation and Cooking Monsters in Your Head Jazz the DreamDog This tempting book gives readers more than just food for thought. Hip retellings of the stories of Adam This picture book with wonderful rhymes and and Eve, Noah, Sarah and other figures are each accompanied beautiful illustrations empowers children to overcome their by two or three related recipes. The language in the stories is night-time fears and learn about social issues. Come meet Jazz modern and approachable, as when Deborah says, “I call the the DreamDog, who inspires one and all with her magic shots,” and Moses tells his people, “Listen up, we’ve got rainbow tail, monsters of purple, blue and yellow, and dancing important work to do.” Color illustrations, many of them full- caterpillars. Rainey, a children’s rights lawyer turned children’s page, are animated and boldly rendered, and the recipes are author, has created a beautiful tale that teaches that the power surrounded by pictures of tasty-looking ingredients. to find happiness lies within yourself. 7 = Family Funday Event 33rd Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Daniel Libeskind 8:00 P.M. FILM Moving Heaven and Earth Breaking Ground 4:30 P.M. Daniel Libeskind, designer of the landmark Uganda 2003, 44 min. English Jewish Museum Berlin and the Imperial War Director: Debra Gonsher Vinik Museum in Manchester, England, won the competition to create the master plan for the new World Trade Center. Part memoir This documentary focuses on the faith of about and part reflection on architecture and its relationship to whom 600 isolated Ugandan Jews also renews the contentious question: we are, Breaking Ground introduces Libeskind’s iconic Who is a Jew? The Abayudaya (Abayudaya is Ugandan for “Jew”) approach to public space. Full of vitality, humor, and visionary people have lived a Jewish life since 1919 when, under the spark, his book invites readers to see architecture and the larger guidance of their leader Semei Kakungulu, the tribe adopted all world in new ways. Join us for a conversation with Mr. Libeskind the observances of Judaism including circumcision, dietary laws, led by Rice University School of Architecture Dean Lars Lerup. and Shabbat. Small and impoverished, the Abayudaya have Underwritten by The German Consulate General of Houston endured, even the during the reign of the anti-Semitic tyrant Idi Sponsors: Amin. Moving Heaven and Earth introduces us to members of Beverly and Gerald Fanarof this remarkable community and documents the conversion, in Theba and Buster Feldman 2002, of more than 300 Abayudaya by a Beit Din of visiting Free to Series Ticket Holders • $9 JCC Member • $12 Public Reform and Conservative U.S. rabbis. Their story and conversion testify to the indomitable spirit of the Abayudaya and Jewish MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7 communities worldwide. Laurel Leff Filmmaker in attendance. 6:15 P.M. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $6 JCC Member • $8 Public Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and Renee Suchowiecky America’s Most Important Newspaper 6:15 P.M. Longtime journalist and university faculty Love Letters to Nicole member, Laurel Leff has written a must-read Written with a mother’s open heart and viewed book for journalists, anyone interested in through a mother’s loving eyes, Love Letters to America’s response to the Holocaust, and those curious about Nicole is a sensitive personal journal kept by how journalists determine what is newsworthy. The book Renee Pendleton Suchowiecky for the two years following her examines how The New York Times downplayed news of the daughter Nicole’s sudden death by cardiac arrest at age 15. Her Holocaust, how journalists evaluate horrific unprecedented book follows the emotional journey Suchowiecky travels as a events, and how publisher Arthur Sulzberger struggled with news grieving mother and wife. From dashed dreams to hilarious of the Holocaust as a journalist, American and Jew. This is Leff’s memories, from moments of despair to visions of hope, the roller first book. coaster ride of life’s experiences engages the reader throughout Sponsored by Mitzi Shure and Jerry Wische her soulful account. Proceeds from sales of the book benefit The Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Nicole Katharine Suchowiecky Foundation in order to purchase potentially life saving Automated External Defibrillators (AED’s) for Houston-area high schools.
Sponsored by Michael Richker and Vicky Pravda Read. Drink. Enjoy the Book Fair! Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Get a Grande-sized coffee or espresso drink for the price of a Tall or Save Money on Programs Get a Venti-sized coffee or Buy a Book and Arts Fair Series Ticket espresso drink for the price of a Grande. Offer only valid with this coupon. Expires 11/30/2005. www. .org 8 Saturday, October 30 – Sunday, November 13
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Ilan Stavans 8:00 P.M. Execution by Mob Murder or by Today's Legal System: The Schocken Book of An examination of a horrific 1916 Texas lynching Modern Sephardic Literature and a look at the injustice of modern-day executions. The Washington Post called Ilan Stavans, “Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic…” Stavans, a winner of many literary awards and one of Houston’s most Patricia Bernstein popular speakers, edited this anthology of 28 writers, including 6:15 P.M. Emma Lazarus, Primo Levi, A.B. Yehoshua, and Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti. The collection offers an incisive portrait of The First Waco Horror: "the other Jews", the Sephardim who long for their lost ancestral The Lynching ofJesse Washington home while creating a vibrant literary tradition in exile. and the rise of the NAACP Underwritten by The Maurice Amado Foundation Program in In 1916, 17-year-old Jesse Washington, a Sephardic Jewish Heritage retarded black boy, was publicly tortured, Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member $10 Public lynched, and burned on the town square of Waco, Texas after having been accused and convicted by a kangaroo TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 court of the rape and murder of a white woman. Tens of thousands of spectators cheered the grisly spectacle and Azriela Jaffe town officials watched and did nothing. This miscarriage of 6:15 P.M. justice stood out amidst the vast bloodbath of lynching occurring at that time in the South and Midwest. What Do You Mean, You Can’t Eat in My Investigative evidence given to W.E.B. Du Bois made it Home? A Guide to How Newly Observant Jews and Their Less Observant Relatives possible for the NAACP to raise national consciousness of the Can Still Get Along atrocities being committed and to raise funds to lobby anti- lynching legislation. Houston-based author Patricia Bernstein Azriela Jaffe – the observant daughter of less observant parents – has reconstructed the details of the crime and its aftermath, presents sensible solutions to the everyday problems faced by newly while searching for answers to the questions of how a observant Jews as they try to explain the parameters of their new community finds itself capable of such abject behavior. lives to the people who love them. She discusses how to keep kosher and observe the Sabbath and holidays in the home of a non- observant relative; how to attend family life-cycle events, or explain David Dow why you sometimes can’t. The book is an invaluable tool in the lives 6:15 P.M. of an increasing number of Jewish families. Executed on a Technicality: Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Lethal Injustice on America’s Death Row When David Dow took his first capital case, Daniel Boyarin he supported the death penalty. But as the 8:00 P.M. men on death row became real to him and as he came to witness the profound Saul Lieberman, injustices they endured, his position dramatically changed. “The Martyrs of Caesarea,” 1954 In case after case in the book, Dow proves the death One of America’s leading scholars of rabbinic penalty is consistently unjust and it is precisely this literature, Saul Lieberman interpreted an early fundamental – and lethal – injustice, Dow argues, that Jewish martyrdom that presents a controversial religious view of should compel us to abandon capital punishment World War II and the destruction of European Jewry. Daniel altogether. Houston native David Dow is professor of law Boyarin, the Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, University of at the University of Houston, founder and director of the California, Berkeley, will discuss Lieberman’s interpretation. Texas Innocence Network and an internationally recognized Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, figure in the fight against the death penalty. Boyarin’s presentation is part of American Jewish Icons, a National Foundation for Jewish Culture program celebrating 350 years of Sponsored by Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association Jewish life in America. Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public 9 33rd Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Kristallnacht Commemoration Eric Konigsberg 8:00 P.M. 6:15 P.M. Ten Years: Remembrance, Blood Relation Education, Hope When Eric Konigsberg discovered that his great- Ten Years: Remembrance, Education, uncle Harold was a legendary Mafia enforcer, he Hope is an elegant, eloquent book about one of Houston's most was determined to discover which was true: important cultural and educational institutions. Lavishly illustrated “Kayo” Konigsberg, the “smartest hit man” and “toughest Jew” as and handsomely designed, this new book is published in described by cops and associates; or “Uncle Heshy” the celebration of Holocaust Museum Houston’s 10th anniversary. In loudmouth nogoodnik and smalltime con as described by his addition to a foreword by distinguished Holocaust scholar, family. In Blood Relation, Konigsberg portrays Harold as a Professor John Roth, Ten Years walks readers through this fascinating, paradoxical character: brutal and winning, a cold- dynamic museum and presents more than 60 compelling blooded killer and a larger-than-life charmer who served as his narratives from Holocaust survivors who have made their homes own lawyer in two major trials. in Houston. HMH Director Susan Llanes Myers will be joined by Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public three survivors to present a meaningful program dedicated to the Museum’s first decade and to commemorate the Kristallnacht Jennifer Miller experience. Congregation Emanu El’s Cantor Vadim Tunitsky will 8:00 P.M. present musical selections. Inheriting the Holy Land: An American’s Free Search for Hope in the Middle East Jennifer Miller is the 24-year-old daughter of a Rabbi David Wolpe U.S. State Department peace negotiator and an 8:15 P.M. activist in Seeds for Peace, a leadership program that helps Arab JCC West Houston - 1120 Dairy Ashford and Israeli students learn the delicate arts of conflict resolution and negotiation. After Miller’s personal involvement with Seeds of Floating Takes Faith Peace, she was determined to give a voice to the one missing This collection of essays explores how Jewish from the media: the young men and women coming of age in values together with Jewish practice make it possible for us to the midst of the conflict. She also includes prominent officials – continue being “the people of the Book” while living in the real sometimes with anger and disgust, but always with an world. Rabbi Wolpe asks the questions, sometimes profound, impassioned and hopeful commitment to the peace process. sometimes light-hearted, that challenge us to consider how we Underwritten by Paula and Irving Pozmantier live as Jews, how our Jewish lives are influenced by our secular Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public surroundings and how we can develop our Jewish souls by continuing to learn from new sources while remaining open to spiritual growth. Rabbi Wolpe, a former teacher at the Jewish FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Theological Seminary in New York, is a respected author, Rabbi Samuel Karff columnist and commentator. 12:00 Noon Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Permission to Believe: Finding Faith in Troubled Times Houston’s own Rabbi Karff, Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Beth Israel, draws on the stories of the men and women he has Have your dinners waiting and ready for you counseled during his 40 years as a congregational rabbi to create this compelling and heartfelt collection. A great Delicious new menu options storyteller, Rabbi Karff explores themes of brokenness, doubt and faith, while giving his readers a wonderful and go to www.jcchouston.org accessible resource to help find faith in troubled times. for details on how to order pre-paid dinners Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 A Dolphin Up a Tree! Come Play on Sports Day at the J 7:00 P.M. AGES 3 AND UP 12 Noon - 4:00 P.M. Family Theatrical Performance authors, sports, and refreshments In conjunction with the JCC Children’s Performing Arts Series In this hilarious and interactive combination Scott Blumenthal of comedy, songs, slapstick and drama, Tina Talkington casts a Brett Hodus magic spell to make her stuffed animals talk! They spring to life, 1:30 P.M. AGES 8 AND UP while Tina turns herself into a dolphin up a tree. The different animals learn how to cooperate to save Dolphin. Kids help the The Road to the Majors animals and Tina learns to understand and appreciate their Back by popular demand, SCOBRE Press differences. Adapted from Kimberly Foster’s beautifully illustrated Corporation founders, Scott Blumenthal and Brett Hodus, book A Dolphin Up a Tree! The Tale of a Fish Out of Water. continue a journey that began under some pretty unique Underwriters: circumstances. Placed together aboard a Semester at Sea boat, Blumenthal and Hodus hailed from opposite sides of The Goldye & Samuel Spain Fund the country. The two forged a friendship and began planning their first young adult book, The Road to the $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Majors for ages 8-14. Then they started SCOBRE Press SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Corporation, to teach life lessons, reinforce value structures Rabbi David Nelson and positively influence young people by entertaining them 11:00 A.M. with stories about athletes who serve as role models. $5 JCC Member Family • $7 Public Family Judaism, Physics and G-d: Searching for Sacred Metaphors in a Post-Einstein World In this provocative fusion of religion and science, Rabbi David W. Nelson examines the great theories of modern Liz Hartman Musiker physics to find new ways for contemporary people to express 3:00 p.m. AGES 11 AND UP their spirituality. Exploring cosmology, quantum mechanics, chaos The Smart Girl's Guide to Sports: theory, relativity and string theory, Nelson recasts the traditional A Hip Handbook for Women Who Don't views of our ancestors in language that can be understood in a Know a Slam Dunk from a Grand Slam world where space flight, atom smashers and black holes are Liz Hartman Musiker is a sports enthusiast and a common features. former publicity director at Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster). Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Although she lives on Long Island, she is more of a Yankees fan than a Mets fan, which horrifies her geographically loyal son and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin husband. Her latest book doesn’t guarantee to make its readers 1:00 P.M. sports’ experts, but aims to offer up the most fundamental, most fun, and most entertaining information—the tools to enjoy sports. Around the Family Table The Smart Girl’s Guide to Sports covers all the major This practical and inspiring book of devotion and professional sports: football, basketball, baseball, hockey, prayer serves as a guide for meaningful expressions golf, soccer, boxing, and even car racing. Each chapter of the Jewish experience at home. All momentous life-cycle includes a "Here’s How It Works" section that explains the occasions are marked with traditional praise and holy words and basics of the game; profiles of each sport’s timeless greats glow with Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s sensitivity and unique imprint. and "contemporary cool" players; and a funny, readable Rabbi Riskin, instrumental in shaping today’s modern Orthodox glossary of key terms. society, is internationally renowned for his innovative educational and social action programs. $5 JCC Member Family • $7 Public Family Sponsored by June and Leonard Goldberg Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public 11 33rd Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Michael Wex Savyon Liebrecht 6:15 P.M. 3:00 P.M. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods A Good Place for the Night The tension between people and places, as well as a This wickedly funny account of Yiddish from the profound sense of alienation permeate this anthology Middle Ages to the present day paints a of mature and intelligent short stories. All of the comprehensive picture of the thinking that enabled the Jews of stories contain the name of a place: America, Munich, Hiroshima, Europe to survive 1,000 years of unrelenting persecution: they never Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the kibbutz, while one story is in a “non-place,” stopped kvetching! Born to Kvetch is an important and a world where the specific characteristics of place have no meaning entertaining look at a vanishing Yiddish world that’s receiving more because everything we are familiar with has been destroyed. attention than ever. Canadian Michael Wex has been hailed as “a Liebrecht, the child of Holocaust survivors, is an award-winning Yiddish national treasure” and is one of the leading lights in the writer of short stories and television scripts who lives in Israel. revival of Yiddish. Free to Series Ticket Holders $7 JCC Member $10 Public Sponsors: Savyon Liebrecht will speak in Hebrew at 8:00 P.M. Houston Friends of Yiddish Sylvia and Aubrey Farb FILM Free to Series Ticket Holders • $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Sentenced to Marriage 4:30 P.M. Jason Alexander 8:00 P.M. Israel, 2004, 65 min, Hebrew w/ English subtitles An Evening with Jason Alexander Director: Anat Zuria Multi-award winning actor/director/producer/ This shocking Israeli-produced documentary spotlights the isolated writer/singer/dancer, Jason Alexander is a and anonymous struggles of Tamara, Rachel and Michelle as they familiar face from his days as the hapless struggle to get a “get” (divorce decree) and seek to be freed from George Costanza in NBC’s hit series Seinfeld. This music and their destructive and dead marriages. They find themselves caught comedy star has acted in a host of films and supplied the in the Kafkaesque trap of the rabbinical system but a glimmer of voices for characters in numerous animated films. By 1989, hope emerges from Yad L’isha, a team of religious women – Alexander had two major industry awards to his credit: the Orthodox rabbinical advocates, who assist them in their battle Tony and Grammy, both for his participation in Jerome through the debilitating legal maze. A discussion with Rabbi Shlomo Robbins' Broadway. And in 1994, his voice could be heard Riskin and Toby Myers will follow the film. each week on the USA cable network as the web-footed, sex- Free to Series Ticket Holders • $6 JCC Member • $8 Public obsessed private eye hero of the animated cartoon series Duckman. Alexander's feature film career gained momentum Jason Alexander during the '90s as both a character actor in major comedies 4:30 P.M. AGES 3-8 such as Dunstan Checks In and a voice-over artist on such animated Disney features as Aladdin and The Hunchback of Dad, Are You the Tooth Fairy? Notre Dame. In 1997, he played a more dramatic role as an When Gaby overhears some older kids on the AIDS-afflicted drag queen who finds romance in Love! Valour! playground saying that the tooth fairy is just make- Compassion! Alexander returns to Houston to close out the believe, he goes straight to his father to find out Jewish Book and Arts Fair with a lively presentation that will the truth. The enchanting tale his dad tells him of a give the audience insight into his life and work. time long ago when mysterious and magical creatures lived on the earth will delight and entertain children and adults alike. For any Sponsors: child who has ever wondered about the existence of the tooth fairy, Frank Crystal & Company/Joel Goldstein this original and reassuring story will satisfy their curiosity and give Kenny & Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen Restaurant/Ziggy Gruber them the power to believe magical things can happen! Jason Free to Series Ticket Holders • $13 JCC Member Family • $18 Public Family Alexander will read to children and their parents for this most special Sunday afternoon program. $5 JCC Member Family • $7 Public Family Due to circumstances beyond our control programs are subject to change. 12 Children and Young Adult Programs KIDS’ KORNER Sunday, October 30 Saturday, November 12 June Levitt Nislick, 4:00 P.M. AGES 8-12 A Dolphin Up a Tree!, 7:00 P.M. AGES 3+ Zayda Was a Cowboy Family Theatrical Performance Author program and family Kosher BBQ In conjunction with the JCC Children’s Hear this extraordinary story of how one family Performing Arts Series. In this hilarious and and one young boy in particular are changed interactive combination of comedy, songs, forever when Zayda (Yiddish for grandfather) slapstick and drama, Tina Talkington casts comes to live with them. a magic spell to make her stuffed animals Underwritten by Shirley and Bruce Stein talk! $8 JCC Member Family • $12 Public Family Underwriters The Goldye & Samuel Spain Fund
Thursday, November 3 $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Marissa Moss, 4:30 P.M. Amelia’s Notebook AGES 9-11 Through her words and pictures, 9-year-old Amelia Sunday, November 13 shares her insights on moving and adjusting to a Sports Day at the J AGES 8+ new home and school. Scott Blumenthal and Brett Hodus, 1:30 P.M. $5 JCC Member Family • $7 Public Family The Road to the Majors The Road to the Majors is just one of Sunday, November 6 SCOBRE press’s books that teach life lessons, reinforce value structures and positively Rainey (Lorraine Friedman), 11:00 A.M. AGES 3-8 influence young people by entertaining them with stories about athletes who serve Monsters in Your Bed… as role models. Monsters in Your Head $5 JCC Member Family • $7 Public Family Jazz the DreamDog This picture book with wonderful rhymes and beautiful illustrations empowers children to overcome their night-time fears. Liz Hartman Musiker, 3:00 p.m. AGES 11+ The Smart Girl's Guide to Sports: A Hip Handbook for Women Who Don't Barbara Diamond Goldin, 1:00 P.M. AGES 4-8 Know a Slam Dunk from a Grand Slam While the Candles Burn: The Smart Girl’s Guide to Sports covers all the Eight Stories for Hanukkah major professional sports: football, basketball, baseball, hockey, golf, soccer, boxing, and even While the Candles Burn offers one story for car racing offering up the most fundamental, each night of Hanukkah, original and most fun, and most entertaining information— traditional, that portrays timeless themes of the tools to enjoy sports. commitment, courage, lights, and miracles. $5 JCC Member Family • $7 Public Family
Tami Lehman-Wilzig, 4:00 P.M. AGES 7+ Jason Alexander, 4:30 P.M. AGES 3-8 Tasty Bible Stories: A Menu of Tales & Dad, Are You the Tooth Fairy? Matching Recipes For any child who has ever wondered about Presentation and Cooking the existence of the tooth fairy, this original This tempting book gives readers more than just and reassuring story will satisfy their food for thought. Hip retellings of the stories of curiosity and give them the power to Adam and Eve, Noah, Sarah and other figures are believe magical things can happen! each accompanied by two or three related recipes. $5 JCC Member Family • $7 Public Family
Visit the Kids’ Korner Section in the JCC Bookstore Find wonderful books, unique items, Chanukah gifts, and more!
= Family Funday Event $3 JCC Member/$5 Public: One-time admission for entry into all children’s programs. Our Thanks to
Eden Capital/ The Newar Family Hoffer Furniture The official hotel for the Official Airline of the JCC 2005 Book and Arts Fair The Jewish Herald-Voice JOURNEYS Footsteps into Jewish Culture presents American Jewish Icons Monday, November 28, 2005 • 8:00 p.m. Jewish Community Center • 5601 S. Braeswood
Norman Kleeblatt, Rose Curator of Fine Art, The Jewish Museum, New York EXPRESSIONS: Artwork by more than 70 Israeli artists Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Assembled by Israeli artist Itzhak “Izzy” Assour, whose sculpture and Postwar American Art, 1950s* will also be on exhibition. Artwork includes sculpture, fibers, The writings of these two seminal mid-century art critics ceramics, jewelry, Judaica, wood and more. helped to shape the critical reception of Abstract Expressionism in America. Both began as politically motivated Jewish OCTOBER 30 – NOVEMBER 6 writers in the 1930s and both turned to art and literature, replacing Jewish politics with a religious zeal for art. In effect, they exchanged Gallery Hours their Jewish particularism for a utopian universalism. Sunday – Thursday • 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. $7 JCC Member • $10 Public Friday • 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. For tickets visit www.jcchouston.org or call 713-551-7255 Saturday • 7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
All works available for purchase. *Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations in this program do not necessarily Supported by the government of Israel. Proceeds go directly to the artists and the JCC. reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information and to The Deutser Art Gallery season is funded in part by the JCC’s Patrons of the Arts. participate in the national conversation, go to www.jewishculture.org/jewishicons.
Mike Nichols Gloria Steinem William Shatner JCC Community Read JCC Community Read What do all of these people have in common? What do none of these people have in common? Jewish Museum Berlin photo by: ©BitterBredt.de Gene Wilder Ruth Bader Ginsburg Kenneth Cole Sarah Jessica Parker Larry King New Jewish Life in Berlin A collection of photographs documenting the emerging The answer is Judaism. Jewish communal life in Berlin after World War II American Jewish identity can be a riddle. What makes one a Jew? Bloodline? Choice? Cultural connection? Are any criteria absolute? Sponsored by The American Jewish Committee – Houston Chapter, The Consulate These questions are at the heart of the JCC’s inaugural “Community General of the Federal Republic of Germany & The Jewish Community Center of Houston Read,” featuring Stars of David by Abigail Pogrebin. Participants will read and discuss a fascinating collection of sixty-one interviews The exhibition runs through December 2, 2005 with prominent American Jews about being Jewish. JOURNEYS Footsteps into Jewish Culture Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest presents and Jewish Community Center of Houston JCC Community Read Cordially invite the Houston community Kick-off Event – Thursday, November 3, 6:15 p.m. To Remember Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Pre-Program Coffee with the speaker at 5:30 p.m. A decade after his assassination A book signing will follow Ms. Pogrebin’s presentation At a memorial service on Reconvening Event – Thursday, December 8, 8:00 p.m. Monday, November 14 • 7:30 P.M. Book discussion led by skilled and knowledgeable facilitators Stars of David will be available for purchase at the JCC Bookstore. Jewish Community Center To participate in this milestone event, call 713-551-7255, Kaplan Theatre, I.W. Marks Theatre Center or visit www.jcchouston.org for registration information. 14 33RD ANNUAL JEWISH BOOK AND ARTS FAIR CALENDAR
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Judith Viorst 2:00 p.m. Sid Shachnow 11:00 a.m. Rabbi David Wolpe - 8:15 p.m. I’m Too Young to be Seventy and other Hope and Honor at the JCC West Houston Delusions Floating Takes Faith Rainey 11:00 a.m. June Nislick 4:00 p.m. Monsters in Your Bed…Monsters in Your Head Zayda Was a Cowboy Jazz the DreamDog THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 FILM - Watermarks 4:30 p.m. Barbara Diamond Goldin 1:00 p.m. Eric Konigsburg 6:15 p.m. While the Candles Burn: Blood Relation Barbara Boxer 8:00 p.m. Eight Stories for Hanukkah A Time to Run Jennifer Miller 8:00 p.m. Stuart Yudofsky 2:00 p.m. Inheriting the Holy Land: An American’s Fatal Flaws: Navigating Destructive Search for Hope in the Middle East Relationships with People with Disorders of MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 Personality and Character David Klinghoffer 8:00 p.m. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Tami Lehman Wilzig 4:00 p.m. Point in Western History Tasty Bible Stories Rabbi Samuel Karff 12:00 Noon Permission to Believe: Finding the Faith in FILM - Moving Heaven and Earth 4:30 p.m Troubled Times TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Naomi Rosenblatt 8:00 p.m. Renee Suchowiecky 6:15 p.m. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Love Letters to Nicole After the Apple: Women in the Bible – Timeless PERFORMANCE - Stories of Love, Lust and Longing Daniel Libeskind 8:00 p.m. A Dolphin Up a Tree! 7:00 p.m. Breaking Ground WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Shulamit Reinharz 6:15 p.m. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7 American Jewish Women and the Zionist Rabbi David Nelson 11:00 a.m. Laurel Leff 6:15 p.m. Judaism, Physics and G-d: Searching for Enterprise Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and Sacred Metaphors in a Post-Einstein World Jake Steinfeld 8:00 p.m. America’s Most Important Newspaper I’ve Seen A Lot of Famous People Naked, and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin 1:00 p.m. Ilan Stavans 8:00 p.m. They’ve Got Nothing on You! Around the Family Table The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature Brett Hodus & Scott Blumenthal 1:30 p.m. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 The Road to the Majors TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 JT Waldman 1:00 p.m. Liz Hartman Musiker 3:00 p.m. Megillat Esther Azriela Jaffe 6:15 p.m. The Smart Girl's Guide to Sports: A Hip What Do You Mean, You Can’t Eat Handbook for Women Who Don't Know a Marissa Moss 4:30 p.m. in My Home? Slam Dunk from a Grand Slam Amelia’s Notebook Daniel Boyarin 8:00 p.m. Savyon Liebrecht 3:00 p.m. Abigail Pogrebin 6:15 p.m. Saul Lieberman, “The Martyrs of Caesarea,” A Good Place for the Night Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About 1954 Being Jewish Jason Alexander 4:30 p.m. Deborah Lipstadt 8:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Dad, Are You the Tooth Fairy? History on Trial: My Day in Court with David FILM - Irving Patricia Bernstein 6:15 p.m. Sentenced to Marriage 4:30 p.m. The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP Michael Wex 6:15 p.m. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 David Dow 6:15 p.m. and Culture in All Its Moods Matthew Goodman 12:00 Noon Executed on a Technicality: CLOSING PROGRAM - Jewish Food: The World at Table Lethal Injustice on America’s Death Row Jason Alexander 8:00 p.m. An Evening with Jason Alexander Kristallnacht Commemoration 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Ten Years: Remembrance, Education, Hope CONCERT - Avishai Cohen 8:00 p.m. Jewish Community Center Arts and Culture 2005 – 2006 Season
MAURICE AMADO DEUTSER ART GALLERY BUNNY AND LEO HORVITZ MUSIC RESIDENCY EXHIBITION SEASON SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE November 2 – 5, 2005 September 1 – October 20, 2005 February 6 - 28, 2006 Avishai Cohen, Jazz Bassist Jewish Fathers 18th Horvitz Scholar-in-Residence Photography by Lloyd Wolf Prof. Robert Liberles JOURNEYS: David Berg Professor of European History FOOTSTEPS INTO JEWISH CULTURE October 23 – December 2, 2005 Ben Gurion University American Jewish Icons New Jewish Life in Berlin Opening Night lecture Presented in partnership with the November 8, 2005 Overlapping Spheres: Jews and Their Environment American Jewish Committee and Daniel Boyarin in the Transition to Modernity November 28, 2005 The German Consulate General of Houston Norman Kleeblatt 2006 HOUSTON JEWISH October 30 – November 6, 2005 FILM FESTIVAL Israel Expressions JCC Community Read March 16 – 26, 2006 Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and Jewelry by November 3, 2005 Presented with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Kick-off Event Israeli Artists December 8, 2005 December 2 - 9, 2005 CHAROSET AND WINE TASTING Reconvening Event Houston Children Paint Israel March 30, 2006 Sample charosets from around the world, savor sumptous hors d’oeuvres and sip delicious wines. DANCE MONTH AT December 10, 2005 – January 5, 2006 THE KAPLAN THEATRE JCC Kids Create Exhibit January 21 – January 23, 2006 January 13 – February 24, 2006 Israeli Dance Workshop 70 Years of the JCC of Houston A weekend of dance classes, open dance 70th Anniversary Exhibition sessions, and a party.
January 28 – January 29, 2006 February 27 - March 19, 2006 Mix It Up History of Swing Dancing in Houston - HSDS's 10th Featuring premiers of original works by six Anniversary PATRONS Houston choreographers and companies. March 20 – April 30, 2006 February 4, 2006 OF THE ARTS Song of Songs Supporting Arts and Culture at the JCC Dancing With Our Stars Works by Debra Band Spend a spectacular evening dancing For information call 713-729-3200 and partying to fabulous live music. May 1 – 18, 2006 Honoring Ella Hamberger, Celebrate Israel Shirley Loeser, and Phyllis Ullman Presented in partnership with The Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest
May 19 – June 1, 2006 JCC Kids Create Exhibit
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