2018-19 Sid Jacobson JCC Cultural Arts Brochure

SID JACOBSON JCC EDWARD & BERNICE WENGER CENTER FOR THE ARTS

CULTURAL ARTS 2018-19

CALENDAR SEPTEMBER

13 Trip: Chinatown Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:45am 26 Spotlight Speaker: Martin Fletcher, Promised Land . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:30pm 30 Young Family Open House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10am

OCTOBER

4 9 24 25

Author Breakfast: Joanne Serling, Good Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30am Community Partner: Janice Kaplan, How Luck Happens* . . . . . . . . . 8pm Trip: The Gilded Age Mansion Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:15am Community Partner: Gerri Chanel, Saving Mona Lisa* . . . . . . . . . . . 7:30pm

NOVEMBER

1 5 14

Author Breakfast: Jamie Bernstein, Famous Father Girl . . . . . . . . . . 10:30am Comedy Therapy with SARGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7pm Heart Smart for Women Panel Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30pm

DECEMBER

6 9 11

Author Breakfast: Susie Orman Schnall, The Subway Girls . . . . . . . . . 10:30am Family Open House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9am A Conversation with: Karin Tanabe, The Diplomat’s Daughter . . . . . . . . 10:30am

FEBRUARY

28 Community Partner: Sally Kohn, The Opposite of Hate* . . . . . . . . . . 7:30pm

MARCH

28 Community Partner: Mary Morris, Gateway to the Moon* . . . . . . . . . 7:30pm

APRIL

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Community Partner: Ellen Friedman, The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story* . 7:30pm Community Partner: Ruby Namdar, The Ruined House* . . . . . . . . . . 7:30pm Community Partner: Stephen M. Flatow, A Father’s Story* . . . . . . . . . 8pm Community Partner: Andrew Gross, Button Man* . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:30pm Author Breakfast: Reyna Marder Gentin, Unreasonable Doubts . . . . . . . 10:30am

MAY

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Author Breakfast: Kitty Zeldis, Not Our Kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30am Community Partner: Angela Himsel, A River Could Be A Tree* . . . . . . . 7:30pm

Registration opens 9am on Wednesday, September 5 for members and Wednesday, September 12 for nonmembers.

To register, visit sjjcc.org/boxoffice or call 516.484.1545 for information. *Off-site location. See inside for additional information.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT ELYSE INGBER, DIRECTOR OF VISUAL + PERFORMANCE ARTS, 516.484.1545 EXT. 144, EINGBER@SJJCC.ORG

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SPONSORS (IN FORMATION) PATRON OF THE ARTS

Howard Rombom & Randi Levine

PATRON

Stacee & Jeff Bernstein Debbi Buslik Barbara Dor Yvonne & Steven Feinstein

SUPPORTER

Barbara Albinder Alice Berger Brand Susan Claster Barbara Cooper

FRIEND

Beth Alter Karen Belfer Galit Ben-Joseph Bonnie Browdy Nicole Buslik Sandy Chumsky Jill Dee Eva Drabkin Susan & Richard Etra Shelley Farbstein Terry Fritz Golden Girls Audrey Goodfriend Barbara & Joel Haravay Stacy Hoffman Arlene Jacobs Iris Katz

Bernice & Edward Wenger Martin Greenberg Joan Witkin Gross Rita Levy Jodi Rosenthal Margie Pugatch Nanci Roth Cynthia & Michael Rubinberg

Lois Kirschenbaum Janet M. Kroll Abbie R. Laskey Gail Leder Lisa Levine Rochelle Lipton Margie Marks Linda Marsden Ronna Niederman Shelley Roseman Judi Ross Janice Schleslinger Estelle Schlossberg Barbara Schubert Gail Silberman Merry Slone

CORPORATE

COMMITTEE

Co-chairs Rita Levy Jodi Rosenthal

Alice Berger Brand Debra Buslik Nicole Buslik Susan Claster Barbara Cooper To register, visit sjjcc.org/boxoffice

Eva Drabkin Joan Witkin Gross Arlene Jacobs Rita Kimmelman Abbie Laskey Linda Marsden Ronna Neiderman Marjorie Pugatch

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AUTHOR BREAKFAST + BOOK SIGNING SERIES *Series of 5 $225 / members $175 3 Fall Series $150 / members $120 2 Spring Series $100 / members $80 Single Author Breakfast Program $55 / members $45 *Purchase full series of 5 and receive a half-price ticket on author Karin Tanabe.

Good Neighbors

by Joanne Serling Follows the story of a family whose friendships are called into question when they adopt a four year-old girl from Russia.

Thursday, October 4, 10:30am

Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein

by Jamie Bernstein The oldest daughter of revered composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father.

Thursday, November 1, 10:30am

The Subway Girls

by Susie Orman Schnall A story of two strong women a generation apart who find themselves up against the same eternal struggle to find balance.

Thursday, December 6, 10:30am

Unreasonable Doubts

by Reyna Marder Gentin Liana, a jaded New York City public defender is forced to decide who she wants to be when an imprisoned felon calls everything she values into question.

Thursday, April 11, 10:30am

Not Our Kind

by Kitty Zeldis The gripping tale of two women brought together after the end of World War II. Eleanor and Patricia’s friendship grows until one night when a line is crossed and consequential decisions must be made.

Thursday, May 2, 10:30am

Seating requests will be honored 3 weeks prior to the program.

Books will be available for sale within 1 month prior to program.

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IRENE AND RONALD COHEN SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER SERIES Promised Land

by Martin Fletcher NBC’s former Tel Aviv bureau chief tells the sweeping saga of two brothers and the woman they love - a devastating love triangle novel set against the tumultuous founding of Israel.

Wednesday, September 26, 7:30pm $40 / members $30

A CONVERSATION WITH KARIN TANABE The Diplomat’s Daughter

by Karin Tanabe A riveting tale of young love set against the backdrop of World War II as Emi is forced to make impossible choices.

Tuesday, December 11, 10:30am $40 / members $30

*Purchase full Author Breakfast series and receive a half-price ticket to author Karin Tanabe

$20 / members $15

NOTABLE SPEAKERS Advance registration preferred. Free to the community.

Comedy Therapy with SARGE

In partnership with Congregation Tifereth Israel, Glen Cove.

Born to a Jewish mother and black father, singer, comedian and motivational speaker SARGE, who was raised in Great Neck, recounts the ups and downs of his life including addiction and recovery. Held at Sid Jacobson JCC.

Monday, November 5, 7pm

Heart Smart for Women: Six S.T.E.P.S. in Six Weeks to Heart-Healthy Living

80% of heart disease is preventable with education and healthy lifestyle changes. Our panelists will discuss a long-term approach to prevention and control of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. Noted panelists include: Stacey E. Rosen, MD; Marissa Licata, MS, RD, CDN; and Spencer Scalzitti, MS, EP-C.

Wednesday, November 14 6:30-8pm To register, visit sjjcc.org/boxoffice

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LINDA AND GERALD MARSDEN PARTNERS WITH THE COMMUNITY How Luck Happens

by Janice Kaplan At Temple Beth Sholom 401 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights Former editor-in-chief of Parade magazine examines the phenomenon of luck and discovers the exciting ways you can grab opportunities and make luck for yourself every day.

Tuesday, October 9, 8pm | $5

Saving Mona Lisa

by Gerri Chanel At South Huntington Jewish Center 2600 New York Avenue, Melville The compelling true story of how curators at the Louvre in 1939 nested the world’s most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley to keep it safe and out of German hands.

Thursday, October 25, 7:30pm | $10

The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity

by Sally Kohn At Temple Sinai 425 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights Kohn, a progressive commentator on Fox News and CNN, tells the stories of her own discoveries that the opposite of hate is the beautiful and powerful reality of how we are all fundamentally linked and equal as human beings. The opposite of hate is connection.

Thursday, February 28, 7:30pm | $5

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LINDA AND GERALD MARSDEN PARTNERS WITH THE COMMUNITY Gateway to the Moon

by Mary Morris At Temple Sinai 425 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights In a remote New Mexico town, young amateur astronomer Miguel Torres finds himself trying to understand the mystery that surrounds him and the town he grew up in.

Thursday, March 28, 7:30pm | $5

The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story

by Ellen Friedman At Temple Judea 333 Searingtown Road, Manhasset The Seven was a name given to a set of Polish Jews from Warsaw, most of them related, by their fellow refugees in the Gulags of the USSR. This story provides a glimpse into the repercussions of the Holocaust for one extended family who survived.

Thursday, April 4, 7:30pm | $10

The Ruined House

by Ruby Namdar At Temple Beth Israel 1 Temple Drive, Pt. Washington Winner of the Sapir Prize, Israel’s highest literary award, this mesmerizing novel set in Manhattan in the early 2000’s follows Andrew Cohen over the course of a year as his world unravels and he is forced to question all his beliefs.

Monday, April 8, 7:30pm

To register, visit sjjcc.org/boxoffice

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A Father’s Story

My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror

LINDA AND GERALD MARSDEN PARTNERS WITH THE COMMUNITY Continued

A Father’s Story

Stephen M. Flatow

by Stephen M. Flatow At Temple Beth Sholom 401 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Alisa, a 20 year-old college student traveling to Israel was a victim of a terrorist bus bombing. A Father’s Story recalls the events surrounding his successful lawsuit against Iran.

Tuesday, April 9, 8:00pm | $5

Button Man

by Andrew Gross At South Huntington Jewish Center 2600 New York Avenue, Melville Tells the stirring story of a Jewish family in the 1930’s brought together by the womens garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City.

Wednesday, April 10, 7:30pm | $10

A River Could Be A Tree

by Angela Himsel At Temple Beth Israel 1 Temple Drive, Pt. Washington How does a woman who grew up in rural Indiana as a fundamentalist Christian end up a practicing Jew in New York? Her memoir traces her journey of faith, family and friendship.

Monday, May 6, 7:30pm

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Sid Jacobson JCC • 300 Forest Drive, East Hills, NY 11548 • 516.484.1545

ART GALLERY No Child’s Play September 4-December 15, 2018

This exhibition opens a window into the world of children during the Shoah. Unlike other Holocaust exhibitions, it does not focus on history, statistics or descriptions of physical violence. Instead, the toys, games, artwork, diaries, and poems displayed highlight some of the personal stories of the children, providing a glimpse into their lives during the Holocaust.

Global Entry: No Passport Required

Travel, Landscape + Street Photography by Alan Sloyer December 14, 2018- April 29, 2019 Inspired by his travels to more than 70 countries across six continents over the past four decades, his photos have appeared in The New York Times, New England Journal of Medicine, Chronos, Annals of Internal Medicine and Shutterbug magazine. His photograph, A Winter’s Morning, was selected by Nikon for its holiday card for North and South America.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT SUSAN SEELIG, FINE ART DIRECTOR, SUSANSEELIG@GMAIL.COM

FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT Free To The Community

IRENE & RONALD COHEN CENTER FOR PARENT ENG

OPEN

Young Families Open House

Try out our Parent + Me classes, enjoy a concert with Songs for Seeds, celebrate Sukkot with crafts, and see all that we have to offer! For a schedule of events, visit sjjcc.org/parenting.

Sunday, September 23, 10am-2:30pm

Family Open House

Enjoy a day of fun with a family Chanukah concert, gym time, crafts, face painting, special fitness classes, swim contests and more! Refreshments will be served.

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Sunday, December 9, 9:30am-2:30pm

To register, visit sjjcc.org/boxoffice

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Try out our Parent + Me classes, meet the staff, celebrate Sukkot with lulav shakes, so Schedule of Events

COMMUNITY THEATRE Sid Jacobson Community Players presents

FOR ADULTS

Mamma Mia

Director Rich Buckley | Music Director Steve Belfer Join us in this high-spirited, feel-good musical featuring the music of Abba! Please come prepared to sing at auditions. If you cannot make the audition time, please contact Susan Kalman.

Auditions Sunday, September 16, 4-7pm Callbacks Sunday, September 23 Show Dates Saturday, February 2, Sunday, February 3, Saturday, February 9 and Sunday, February 10

FOR CHILDREN

Full year programs with performances in the spring.

Peter Pan & The Neverland Fairies

Grades: K-2 Come fly with us to Neverland while learning new skills and having fun.

Tuesday Session

Begins Tuesday, October 9, 4-5:15pm (Wait List) $795 / members $725

Sunday Sessions

Begins Sunday, November 4, 10:15-11:30am (Wait List) and 11:45am-1pm (Spots Available) $725 / members $645

The Land of Oz

Grades: 3-6 Travel to the Emerald City and Defy Gravity with lots of great parts for all. Please come prepared to sing at auditions, which are not a drop off.

Thursday Session

Auditions Thursday, September 13, 4-6pm Begins Thursday, September 27, 4-5:15pm $780 / members $705

Sunday Sessions

Auditions Sunday, September 16, 10:30am-1:30pm or Monday, September 17, 5:00-7:00pm Begins Sunday, October 7, 1:15-2:45pm or 2:45-4:15pm $725 / members $645 FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT SUSAN KALMAN, THEATRE ARTS DIRECTOR, EXT. 110, SKALMAN@SJJCC.ORG

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LINDA & GERALD MARSDEN ADULT EXPERIENCES Chinatown: Food + Walking Tour

Chinatown can be intimidating, even for a native New Yorker!

Travel along with us as we enjoy delicious food, see the sights and hear the stories of this diverse neighborhood. The tour includes three seated tastings and one on-the-go tasting. Fee includes luxury bus, three-hour tour, tastings, and gratuities.

Space is limited, fee non-refundable.

Thursday, September 13 Departs JCC 8:45am Approximate return 3:30pm $160 / members $140

The Gilded Age Mansion Tour

Between 78th Street and 92nd Street, Fifth Avenue in Manhattan still has a concentration of Gilded Age mansions.

On this tour, you will see the architectural masterpieces by C.P.H. Gilbert, Stanford White and Morris Hunt and hear the stories of the industrial age moguls who were vying to outdo one another with these mansions. Fee includes luxury bus, private tour, lunch, Guggenheim docent-led museum tour, gratuities, and snacks.

Wednesday, October 24 Departs JCC 8:15am $160 / members $140

COVER 2 COVER BOOK CLUB Love to read? Share your thoughts on best-selling novels in our book club facilitated by Anna Katsavos, Ph.D.

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Tuesday, October 9

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Tuesday, November 13

Beartown by Fredrik Backman Tuesday, December 11

Tuesdays, 10am-12pm $90 / members $60 for 3 sessions FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT DONNA SHULMAN, DIRECTOR OF ADULT + SENIOR PROGRAMS, EXT. 134, DSHULMAN@SJJCC.ORG

To register, visit sjjcc.org/boxoffice

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT ELYSE INGBER, DIRECTOR OF VISUAL + PERFORMANCE ARTS, 516.484.1545 EXT. 144, EINGBER@SJJCC.ORG

To register, visit sjjcc.org/boxoffice or call 516.484.1545 for information.

Wednesday, September 12 for nonmembers

Wednesday, September 5 for members

OPENS 9AM

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