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Gaelen Center for the Arts
Something for everyone . . . Close to home!
Our Gaelen Center for the Arts features professional performances of the highest caliber in the Maurice Levin Theater, community arts programs, and art classes led by experienced instructors in professional studios. Each season is filled with fascinating and entertaining events for all ages.
For more information, contact Carol Berman, 973-530-3421, cberman@jccmetrowest.org.
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Visit our new JCC Maccabi section for more information on the JCC Maccabi ArtsFest
JCC Book Group
March
Displaced Persons, by Ghita Schwarz
Wednesday, March 14, 11:00 AM Thursday, March 15, 7:30 PM 
Polish Jews Pavel, Fela, and Chaim, survivors of World War II who were first brought together in a displaced persons camp, manage to create their own patchwork families even as they keep an eye out for that passing stranger who just might be a lost relation. Pavel and Fela eventually marry and move to America, taking teenaged Chaim with them. Schwarz highlights their ordinary days in Queens, NY, as they try to adjust to America while always remembering their horrific past. Poignant and sharp, this engrossing first novel takes a first-person look at a time and a people defined by a deep inner strength.
Please click here for a listing of all upcoming book group meetings!
Upcoming Events
Jennifer Levine ☻Paintings
January 8 - February 26
Sculpture Affiliates of New Jersey ☻Sculpture
Contact: Lisa Suss 973-530-3413 (lsuss@jccmetrowest.org)
Whoever Saves A Single Life...Rescuers of Jews During The Holocaust
Traveling exhibit comes to JCC Metrowest Mezzanine
From now through March 28, the JCC MetroWest will host an exhibition, entitled Whoever Saves A Single Life...Rescuers of Jews During The Holocaust. According to The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR), the installations "...showcase some of those rare - but exceedingly importartant - instances where people fought to safeguard their Jewish fellow citizens during the Holocaust. In a time of overwhelming death and desctruction, rescuers did not stand by silently. Instead, they chose another way, and their bravery offers us a glimmer of hope."
Each of the exhibits' 12 panels focus on one of the following relevant themes:
- History of the Holocaust
- The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
- Webs of Survival: Rescue Networks
- Taking Action: Young Rescuers
- Faith in Action: Religious Rescue
- Shielding Our Citizens: Rescue in Denmark
- Outwitting Evil: Ingenuity in Rescue
- Against All Odds: Rescue in the Camps
- From Words to Deeds: Americans in Europe
- Defying Orders: Rescue in Uniform
- Precarious Life: Shelter and Hiding
- Envoys of Humanity: The Diplomats
Whoever Saves a Single Life...Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust is an exhibit of freestanding structures. It is a non-linear exhibit, arranged thematically rather than chronologically, and can be appreciated by indivisdals from middle school students to adults.
This exhibit is presented courtesy of The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, which provides monthly financial support to aged and needy non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust and preserves their legacy through its national Holocaust education program.
Whoever Saves a Single Life... Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust is free and open to the public.
