Friday, October 22; 12PM, JCC Auditorium; $8/$10
What is Jewish cooking in France? That question haunted Joan Nathan over the years and fueled her curiosity about this hidden cuisine. Now she serves up the...
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Sunday, October 24; JCC Senior Adult Lounge; no charge, tickets REQUIRED
12PM
Beginning more than 50 years before "Sex in the City," the four women in Life, Death and Doughnuts become lifelong friends as a result of the monthly dinner...
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1PM
Peter Lovenheim has lived on the same suburban Rochester street most of his life. Only after a brutal murder-suicide rocked the community was he struck by the truth about his comfortable enclave: no one knew anyone else...
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2PM
Joel Berger's charmed life is slipping away. Determined to father a child before he dies, Joel makes a desperate appeal by seeking the help of the women in his macrobiotic dinner group. Baruch is a first-time author and lives...
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3PM
In the past 25 years, the culture war between America's ultra-Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews has found a particularly creative voice in literature, media and film. Rubel investigates how the ultra-Orthodox are portrayed...
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Sunday, October 24;
7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre; $8/$10
Looking out of his window at a church across the street, the son of an Orthodox rabbi asks, "What would it be like to be a Christian?" So begins Benyamin Cohen's hilarious journey-part memoir, part spiritual quest and part anthropologist's mission. Cohen finds... MORE »
The Year of Living Biblically answers the question: What if a modern-day American followed every rule in the Bible as literally as possible for a full year? Not just the famous rules - the Ten Commandments and "love thy neighbor" but the hundreds of oft-ignored ones: Don't wear clothes of mixed fibers. Grow your beard...
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Good Book is what happens when a regular guy actually reads the book on which his religion, his culture and his world are based. Along the way, he grapples with profound theological questions - How many commandments do we actually need?...
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Monday, October 25; 7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre; $8/$10
"Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."
Dr. Rick Hodes went to Africa more than two decades ago to help the victims of a famine. Twenty-eight years later, he is still there. This Is a Soul tells his remarkable...
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Tuesday, October 26; 7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre; no charge, tickets REQUIRED
This is the most famous teaching of Hillel, one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era. What makes it so extraordinary is that it was offered to a gentile seeking...
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Thursday, October 28; 7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre; $8/10
In 1979, the Cold War is waning and the Goldsteins of Washington, D.C. are facing their own challenges. A poignant story of husbands and wives, parents and children, activists and spies, Something Red is a masterful novel that unfurls with suspense... MORE »
Twice married, once divorced, once widowed - all by the tender age of 12 - Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn finally flees his small village. A lovelorn Candide, the young doctor wanders optimistically through history, from 1890 Vienna to the Warsaw Ghetto . A Curable Romantic is the latest from the literary imagination of Joseph Skibell, author of A Blessing on the Moon and The English Disease...
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A once-prominent painter, Danzig now teaches at a San Francisco art institute - yet his own canvases remain empty. With the arrival of Merav, a beautiful Israeli-born model, he senses the renewal of his artistic passion. Rosner lyrically uncovers their disparate upbringings, creative awakenings and love. Rosner's first novel, The Speed of Light , received many awards, including the...
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Sunday, October 31; 10AM, JCC Auditorium; $8/10
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Monday, November 1; 7:30 PM, JCC Hart Theatre; $8/10
What does it mean to be 80? As Viorst gleefully attests, 80 is not too old to dream, to flirt, to drink or to dance. It's also not too late to give up being cheap or to take...
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Friday, November 19; 12PM, JCC Auditorium; $15/$18
(Tickets must be purchased by 11/15)
Propelled by Amy Bloom's dazzling prose, unmistakable voice and generous wit, Where the God of Love Hangs Out explores the changes that love and loss create...
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Monday, December 6; 7:30PM, JCC Hart Theatre; $8/10
In this captivating account of the multibillion-dollar kosher food industry, Sue Fishkoff examines who eats kosher food, who produces it and who certifies it...
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Saturday, March 5, 2011; 8PM; JCC Auditorium; $8/10
In this hilarious yet moving memoir, comedians and marriage partners Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that all you need is love - and a healthy dose of complaining, co-dependence and pinot noir. They have found, after 13 years of marriage...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011; 7:30PM; JCC Hart Theatre; $8/10
The facts are alarming: Medical errors kill more people each year than AIDS, breast cancer or car accidents. Your doctors' relationships with pharmaceutical...
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