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| Jewish Life and Culture - November 2007 |
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| Tickets/Registration: 212.415.5500 |
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| Media Contact: Beverly Greenfield, 212.415.5452, email |
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| JEWISH LIFE & CULTURE AT THE 92ND STREET Y |
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— November 2007 — |
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LECTURES ♦ PANELS ♦ WORKSHOPS ♦ PERFORMANCES ♦ FAMILY PROGRAMS |
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| New York, NY, October, 1, 2007—The 92nd Street Y Bronfman Center for Jewish Life offers a wide variety of programs on virtually every area of Jewish life. In addition to classes, the lecture series presents leading political, religious and academic figures, and imaginative programs introduce children to the values and rituals of Jewish life. The breadth of the Bronfman Center's offerings and their egalitarian, nondenominational nature make the 92nd Street Y New York's premier address for Jewish learning. |
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| FREE Family Shabbat Programs |
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Every Friday, 10-10:30 am and 4-4:30 pm, FREE
Nov 2, 9, 14, 30
FRIDAY TOT SHABBAT
The Y offers a free, drop-in Shabbat program for families with small children every Friday in November. Join Cantorial soloist and educator KARINA ZILBERMAN to welcome Shabbat with songs, stories, challah and snacks. Enjoy a friendly, welcoming atmosphere and give your toddler an opportunity to embrace the festive feeling of Shabbat.
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Every Saturday, 10 am-12 noon and 1-3 pm, FREE
Nov 3, 10, 15
SHABBAT KIDDUSH: PAUSE, RELAX AND REJOICE
The Y offers a free Shabbat program for families every Saturday in November, with wine and juice, challah and cookies, arts and crafts, music and stories, talks and movies. Cantorial soloist and educator KARINA ZILBERMAN leads families in the traditional Kiddush (the blessing over wine or grape juice) followed by art projects and storytelling for the little ones and informal discussions and study sessions for the adults. Great nibbles for the entire family.
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Fri, Nov 2, 8 pm, $26
SHABBAT SALON / A CUBAN SHABBAT WITH RUTH BEHAR
This special Cuban version of the Y's Friday-night Shabbat Salon is hosted by RUTH BEHAR, who reads from and discusses her new book, An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba. The evening begins with a special Kabbalat Shabbat service featuring Cuban melodies and, after Behar's reading, concludes with a chance to schmooze over and snack on authentic Jewish-Cuban cuisine and learn a few salsa dance steps to Cuban-Jewish music. On display for the evening is an exhibition of works by Cuban photographer Humberto Mayol, who traveled with Behar and illustrated her book.
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♦ ISRAEL at 60 ♦
Sat, Nov 3, 2 pm ***FREE***
SHABBAT FOR FAMILIES | ISRAELI DANCE FOR BEGINNERS
In this free Shabbat afternoon program on the first Saturday of each month, join other families with children six and older for a foot-stomping, arm-twirling, over-and-under good time with Israeli music old and new. Israeli dance instructor and Jewish educator YAFFA GARBER leads a tour-de-folkdance you won't soon forget. Wear comfortable shoes and loose clothing. No registration required; next session is December 1.
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Sat, Nov 3, 7:30 pm, $25
SATURDAY NIGHT SINGLESPEAK / AGES 40-55
In a relaxed, thought-provoking setting, meet other single men and women facing the same issues as you and discover ways to handle the many challenges you encounter. The event begins with a wine reception, followed by group discussions and music — and more wine!
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Mon, Nov 5, 8:15 pm, $25
LEON CHARNEY: THE MYSTERY OF KADDISH
LEON CHARNEY is a lawyer, television moderator and advisor to presidents and prime ministers in Israel and the United States. He is also a graduate of Yeshiva University, and counts Cantorial singing among his hobbies. His recent book, The Mystery of the Kaddish: Its Profound Influence on Judaism (Barricade Books, 2007), explores the history and healing power of Kaddish (the Jewish prayer for the dead). In this lecture, Charney sheds light on this remarkable prayer, explains its relevance in today's world, and discusses how this prayer so closely associated with death and mourning can actually be life-affirming and even joyous.
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Wed, Nov 7, 7:30 pm, $20
MAGGIE ANTON: BIOGRAPHY OF A JEWISH LIFE: RASHI'S DAUGHTERS
While researching her award-winning Rashi's Daughters trilogy, scholar MAGGIE ANTON discovered a multitude of surprising facts: that Rashi's daughters studied Talmud; That in the 11th century, Jewish women wore tefillin and tzitzit, blew the shofar and performed circumcisions. She discusses these and other surprises about women's life in the middle ages in this lecture at the Y. Anton's most recent book is Rashi's Daughters: Book Two—MIRIAM.
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♦ ISRAEL at 60 ♦
Wed, Nov 7, 7:30-9 pm, $25
TRANSFORMATIONS: FROM ETHIOPIA TO ISRAEL
In 1991, photojournalist RICKI ROSEN documented Israel's transfer of 15,000 Jews from Ethiopia during the historic Operation Solomon airlift. Thirteen years later, she found and photographed the same Ethiopian Jews, now settled all over Israel. Rosen speaks about Ethiopians in Israel and shares some of her photographs. Many of these photos can be found in her book, Transformations from Ethiopia to Israel; Rosen's work has also been published on the covers of The New York Times Magazine, Time, and Newsweek.
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Thu, Nov 8, 7 pm, $25
LATIN AMERICAN "GROUND ZEROES":
MEMORIALS TO THE HOLOCAUST AND THE DISAPPEARED
The complicated process of constructing a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero has shown New Yorkers how difficult it can be to find meaningful ways to commemorate the victims of tragedy. EDNA AIZENBERG, PhD, a professor of Hispanic Studies at Marymount Manhattan College, leads a virtual tour of three such memorials in Argentina and Uruguay. The National Memorial to the Holocaust in Montevideo, Uruguay, was erected by the government as a human rights statement, despite the country's limited connection to the Holocaust. Buenos Aires, Argentina is home to a memory park for the "desaparecidos" or "disappeared" who were victims the military junta in the 1970s and '80s, an extended period of terror often characterized as "Argentina's Holocaust." Also in Buenos Aires is a memorial to the victims of a 1994 terrorist attack on Argentina's Jewish Center. A second talk on Jewish Latin America, focusing on the region's Jewish literature, takes place on Nov 15.
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Thu, Nov 8, 7:30 pm, $25
RABBI JENNIFER KRAUSE: WHAT IS "THE ANSWER"?
Scores of self-help books and magazines offer easy answers and step-by-step solutions to virtually all the challenges like could possibly present, and experts on everything from relationships to closet clutter fill hours and hours of television and radio time. RABBI JENNIFER KRAUSE author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time (Perigee Trade, October 2, 2007), suggests instead answering our own questions (rather than seeking answers from others). She leads a discussion about renewing your faith in yourself and your own wisdom by answering seven thought-provoking questions that can lead to greater strength, hope, comfort, and clarity. She approaches the quest with an innovative mix of sacred Jewish text, contemporary experience and popular culture. Her work and commentary have been featured in Newsweek, US News and World Report and O, The Oprah Magazine; she also leads High Holiday services at the 92nd Street Y.
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Sun, Nov 11, 11 am-1 pm, $25
BIALYSTOKER THE BEAUTIFUL, SHTEIBL ROW AND THE SITES OF HISTORIC EAST BROADWAY
Discover 150 years of Lower East Side history on a walking tour of Shteibl Row, noted for its abundance of 19th-century one- and two-room synagogues. Visit the meticulously restored Bialystoker Synagogue and hear the story of this sacred site's role in the Underground Railroad. See the original site of the Henry Street Settlement and learn about the critical role played by settlement houses in this community.
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Sun, Nov 11, 2-8 pm, $50
WORKSHOP | LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR JEWISH DANCE TEACHERS
A day of special preparation for teachers to heighten creativity in their work with Israeli dance in school and amateur performing groups. Learn about theme development (including Jewish holiday dances) and costume planning with Israeli dance veteran RUTH GOODMAN. Explore specific choreographic skills to bring traditional dances and idea to the stage. Advance registration is requested.
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Sun, Nov 11, 7:30 pm, $26
ALAN DERSHOWITZ WITH JEFFREY TOOBIN: FREE SPEECH THEN AND NOW
High-profile lawyer, distinguished Harvard Law School professor and defender of individual liberties ALAN DERSHOWITZ discusses his passion for free speech and how it intersects with his profound admiration for Thomas Jefferson, as described in his new book Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, A Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism (Wiley, November 9, 2007). Among other topics, he considers how Jefferson would interpret freedom of speech in the context of today's threat of terrorism. He talks with JEFFREY TOOBIN, a staff writer for The New Yorker, senior legal analyst for CNN and the author of The Nine: Inside the World of the Supreme Court.
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Mon, Nov 12, 8:15 pm, $25
BREAKING NEWS IN THE JEWISH WORLD AND BEYOND: JOHN STOSSEL
In this discussion series, New York Times reporter JOSEPH BERGER engages leading newsmakers, trendsetters and intellectuals in a free-flowing, provocative discussion about the events of the day. ABC News special correspondent JOHN STOSSEL, a winner of 19 Emmy Awards and an unabashed libertarian, brings his signature wit and candor to a discussion of the hottest topics in the news.
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Thu Nov 15, 7 pm, $25
MOVE OVER PHILIP ROTH: LATIN AMERICAN JEWISH LITERATURE
Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and other American-Jewish writers are well known. But not many Americans have heard of the Jewish authors Luis de Carvajal, Alberto Gerchunoff or Rosa Nissan — all of whom confront Jewish dilemmas with a Latin twist. In this seminar, EDNA AIZENBERG, PhD, a professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at Marymount Manhattan College and author of several books on Jorge Luis Borges, explores this vibrant Spanish and Portuguese literature (in English translation).
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Thu, Nov 15, 11 am, $20
SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS:
FEMININE REFLECTIONS ON THE RHYTHMS OF OUR LIVES
Throughout the ages, women have gathered at the appearance of the new moon for creative endeavors, renewal, friendship and learning. This monthly workshop is scheduled to coincide with the new moon, which signals the beginning of a new month on the Jewish calendar, also known as Rosh Chodesh. Participants use imagery, personal ritual, and discussion to become attuned to the monthly cycle of the moon and the calendar. Participants also learn about the meaning Jewish tradition assigns to each lunar month. RABBI JOYCE REINITZ, ACSW, a psychotherapist and workshop leader for more than 30 years, leads the workshop. No prior knowledge or experience necessary.
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♦ ISRAEL at 60 ♦
Thu, Nov 15, 8 pm, $26
BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: PROGRESSIVE VOICES ENGAGING WITH ISRAEL
Douglas Rushkoff, Peter Edelman, Naomi Klein, Alisa Solomon
Many progressive Jews see a conflict between their personal values and current Israeli social and political policies. To grapple with these complex issues of politics and identity, the Y and The New Israel Fund convene this panel of North American writers and thinkers who range from left-leaning to radically liberal. DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, author of Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, is a teacher and documentary filmmaker; his other bestselling books include Media Virus and Playing the Future. Harvard law professor PETER EDELMAN is president of the board of the New Israel Fund and author of Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope. NAOMI KLEIN is the author of The Shock Doctrine (Metropolitan Books, September, 2007), in which she argues that victims of catastrophes from Katrina and the Indonesian tsunami to the Iraq war are also suffering from "disaster capitalism," a term she coined to describe radical and predatory economic development in the wake of natural or man-made disasters. ALISA SOLOMON is a theater scholar, critic, journalist and co-editor, with Tony Kushner, of Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Moderator RICHARD COHEN is a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post.
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Sat, Nov 17, 4-6 pm, $35
IRVING BERLIN: ENVISIONING AMERICA THROUGH SONG
Alexander's Ragtime Band to the Great Depressions, Personal and National
Jerome Kern said, "Irving Berlin has no place in American Music. He is American music." Living to the age of 101, Berlin experienced the entire 20th century. In this two-session series, composer JOELLE WALLACH examines how his life and legacy intertwined and looks at the personal, musical, social and financial successes that were far beyond the imagination of the young Russian-Jewish immigrant who arrived in steerage. The next session — Irving Berlin: From the Rise of Hitler through 9/11 — will be held on Dec 15.
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Sun, Nov 18, 7:30 pm, $25
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED: AN EVENING WITH EUNICE LIPTON
Since the time of Napoleon, French Jews have enjoyed liberty, fraternity and equality. Yet there have also been moments of stunning betrayal, most notably the Dreyfus Affair and the collaboration of the Vichy government with the Gestapo. Join art historian and author EUNICE LIPTON for a discussion of the paradoxical relationship France has had with its Jewish citizens. Lipton's most recent book is the memoir French Seduction: An American's Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust, in which she explores her love for French art, food and beauty, which are inevitable encumbered by her knowledge of the country's anti-Semitic history.
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Thu, Nov 20, 8:15 pm, $25
THE JEWISH TELEVISION SERIES: SID CAESAR: THE MAN WHO STARTED IT ALL
There would be no Jewish television without Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows. There might not be television at all, at least as we know it. View and discuss clips from Caesar's greatest programs and explore the formation of a new medium and how Jews adapted to and flourished in its possibilities. From the beginning, television has provided a home for Jewish actors and writers. They play central roles in shaping one of the most powerful forces of our time and television, in turn, presented Jews to America. In this lecture series about Jews and television, JEREMY DAUBER examines these shows as comic masterpieces and as vehicles for thinking about American-Jewish culture and identity.
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♦ ISRAEL at 60 ♦
Wed, Nov 21, 9 pm-4 am, $20
DANCE | ANNUAL THANKSGIVING ISRAELI FOLK-DANCE MARATHON
Join us for a night to be thankful for—our annual bash! Folk-Dance all-stars RUTH GOODMAN & DANNY UZIEL lead one of the 92nd Street Y's famous folk-dance marathons to welcome the night of giving thanks (and work off some calories in anticipation of the coming feast).
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Mon, Nov 26, 7:30-9 pm, 6 sessions, $120
CLASS | JEWISH AND BUDDHIST: CAN YOU BE BOTH
One third of all American Buddhists are Jewish. Why is Buddhism so attractive to Westerners? Is Buddhism idolatrous? Why is this dialogue one of the most important conversations to take place in the history of Judaism? RABBI DAVID INGBER explores the similarities and differences between these two religious paths. Rabbi Ingber, rabbi of Kehilat Romemu, a Jewish Renewal synagogue in New York, has served as rabbi-in-residence at Elat Chayyim and has studied and taught yoga, shiatsu, Pilates, gyrotonics, kung fu and Chen-school Tai chi. He is also a certified astrologer.
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Tue, Nov 27, 7:30 pm, $25
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION | DON'T CALL IT HEIMWEH
MARGOT FRIEDLANDER, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor, is the subject of the 60-minute documentary Don't Call it Heimweh, in which nostalgia (heimweh in German) plays a supporting role. Friedlander, the child of a middle-class German-Jewish family, was hidden by Germans in wartime Berlin until betrayal by fellow Jews led to time in Theresienstadt, where she married a fellow inmate, Alfred Friedlander. They moved to New York after the war, and never looked back. But following her husband's death, Friedlander took a memoir-writing class at the 92nd Street Y, which unlocked anger, sadness and a deep longing for home. The film follows Friedlander as she travels back to Berlin to confront her past and come to terms with her own identity. Following a screening of the film, Friedlander joins director THOMAS HALACZINSKY for a discussion about the film and her lifelong search for home and identity.
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Thu, Nov 29, 8;15 pm, $26
RUTH GRUBER TALKS WITH HAROLD ICKES, JR.: WITNESS TO HISTORY
At age 20, RUTH GRUBER was the youngest PhD ever. At 24, she became a correspondent for The New York Herald Tribune and traveled across the Soviet Arctic. At 33, she escorted 1,000 Jewish refugees from Europe to America—the only Jews given refuge in this country during the war—a mission that transformed her life. This remarkable 94-year-old talks about her life with HAROLD ICKES, JR., deputy White House Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton and son of Harold L. Ickes, the man who sent Gruber on her historic rescue mission when he was Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Thu, Nov 29, 7:30-9 pm, 4 sessions (beginning Oct 11), $80
INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM: TOWARD A MEANINGFUL LIFE, PART II
Explore the universal wisdom of the Torah as a blueprint for life, discovering ways to imbue each aspect of our lives—from the personal to the social to the scientific—with deeper purpose and meaning. RABBI SIMON JACOBSON, author of the best-selling book Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson and director of The Meaningful Life Center, covers a range of topics, including what the Torah tells us about love, intimacy, anxiety, pain and balancing work with personal life.
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♦ ISRAEL at 60 ♦
Every Wed, 7- 7:30 pm: "First Steps" (Basic Instruction)
Every Wed, 7:30 - 8:15 pm: "Second Steps" (Intermediate Instruction)
Every Wed, 8:15 pm - 12:45 am: Open Session
Admission: $12 at the door (includes all sessions)
ISRAELI FOLK-DANCE WEDNESDAYS
Participants improve on steps they know or learn new ones during the instructional sessions with folk-dance all-stars RUTH GOODMAN and DANNY UZIEL. Admission includes a free pass to both instructional and open sessions. For information and schedule updates, call the Israeli Folk Dance Hotline: 212-415-5737.
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| ABOUT THE 92nd STREET Y |
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The 92nd Street Y Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, generously endowed by the Samuel Bronfman Foundation, is the spiritual center of the Y and welcomes everyone seeking a better understanding of Jewish culture. The Center presents New York City's premier Jewish lecture series featuring renowned thinkers as well as cultural and public figures like Elie Wiesel (celebrating his 37th year at the Y), Susannah Heschel, Arthur Hertzberg, Alan Dershowitz, and Anne Roiphe. Classes and holiday celebrations introduce adults and children to the values and rituals of Jewish life. The breadth of the Bronfman Center's offerings and their egalitarian, nondenominational nature make the 92nd Street Y New York's premier address for Jewish learning.
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Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. The 92nd Street Y's mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit each year — both in person and through the Y's satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age. Committed to making its programs available to everyone, the 92nd Street Y awards nearly $1 million in scholarships annually and reaches out to 8,000 public school children through fully-subsidized arts education programs. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org.
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© 2009 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association
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