• Gaelen Gallery March/April Opening Reception

    JCC MetroWest | Gaelen Gallery 760 W Northfield Rd, West Orange, NJ, United States

    OUR ENVIRONMENT, OUR FUTURE A showcase of ten artists using a wide range of media to depict nature as “living artwork.” Light refreshments will be served. Participating Artists: Donna Bassin […]

  • ECC: Art Exhibit – Connections & Interweavings

    JCC MetroWest | Gaelen Gallery 760 W Northfield Rd, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents: An exhibition of children’s art by students from the Sharon and Stephen Seiden Early Childhood Center   May 3 - 29, 2025

  • Gaelen Gallery Book Arts Roundtable Opening Reception

    JCC MetroWest | Gaelen Gallery 760 W Northfield Rd, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Gaelen Gallery Opening Reception Book Arts Roundtable The Book Arts Roundtable was established in 1999 to encourage the love of book and paper arts as well as to create a […]

  • Book Group: Alka Joshi

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Alka Joshi, Six Days in Bombay This sweeping novel takes readers from Bombay to Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter's […]

  • Book Group: Allegra Goodman

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Allegra Goodman, Isola Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian, accusing her of […]

  • Community Commemoration of October 7

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Join us for a viewing of a special film and Q&A Cookies for Life (Rachel From Ofakim) When five terrorists invaded her home on October 7, Rachel Edri talked with […]

  • Book Group: Cynthia Weiner

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Cynthia Weiner, A Gorgeous Excitement “A Gorgeous Excitement,” Freud's term for cocaine, is central to this 1980s coming-of-age tale about a Jewish teenager attempting to fit into […]

  • Book Group: Esther Chehebar

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Esther Chehebar, Sisters of Fortune The Cohen sisters—Fortune, the middle sister, preparing for her upcoming arranged marriage; Nina, the 26-year-old eldest, struggling with single life and newfound […]

  • January/February Art Exhibit Opening Reception

    JCC MetroWest | Gaelen Gallery 760 W Northfield Rd, West Orange, NJ, United States

    The Gaelen Gallery's art exhibit for January and February will feature artists Joel Estrada, Michelle Kurlan, and Ellen Hark. Each artist been awarded the ribbon for best in their respective […]

  • Book Group: Mary Morris

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Mary Morris, The Red House Laura's mother, Viola, vanished 30 years ago, leaving behind unsettling paintings of a red house, all containing the phrase, "I will not […]

  • Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs to Know

    JCC MetroWest | Robbins Hall 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    History teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them. Once unleashed, it often turns against other minority groups as well as […]

  • Book Group: Sam Sussman

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Sam Sussman, Boy From the North Country When Evan, twenty-six, is called home to the secluded farmhouse where he was raised, he doesn't yet know his mother […]

  • Book Group: Laney Katz Becker

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Laney Katz Becker, In the Family Way Set in the 1960's before Roe vs Wade, this is a poignant and powerful novel about the friendship between a […]

  • Book Group: Tod Lending

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Tod Lending, The Umbrella Maker's Son During the week of Yom Hashoah, we'll discuss this powerful, heart-wrenching novel that follows a young Polish Jew through his incredible […]

  • Book Group: Allison Esptein

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Allison Epstein, Fagin the Thief A thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London's most gifted […]

  • Book Group: Jessica Berger Gross

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Jessica Berger Gross, Hazel Says No When Hazel Blum's father gets a tenured job at a prestigious college, she and her family relocate from Brooklyn to a […]

  • Book Group: Tovah Mirvis

    JCC MetroWest 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Tovah Mirvis, We Would Never Inspired by a true story, "We Would Never' is an "intellectual mystery-part whodunit, part whydunit, and heavy on the complexities of famuly […]

  • Book Group: Judy Batalion

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    The Last Woman of Warsaw by Judy Batalion A debut novel by the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days, following two very different Jewish […]

  • Book Group: Brian Schaefer

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Town & Country by Brian Schaefer Spanning one election season in a rapidly changing small town, Town & Country is an insightful, character-driven novel that explores the intersections of politics, […]

  • Book Group: Kitty Zeldis

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    One of Them by Kitty Zeldis A story of secrets, friendship, and betrayal about two young women at Vassar in the years after World War II, a powerful and moving […]

  • Book Group: Emily Franklin

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Love & Other Monsters by Emily Franklin Inspired by the extraordinary summer of 1816 that gave birth to Frankenstein, Love & Other Monsters reimagines the life of Claire Clairmont—the overlooked […]

  • Book Group: Jacqueline Friedland

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Breathing Under Water by Jacqueline Friedland The ambitious vice-principal at a prestigious private school and her autistic 16-year-old son form unlikely bonds with a college swimmer as they all deal […]

  • Book Group: Emily Matchar

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    The Lost Girl of Craven County by Emily Matchar A decade into the Great Depression, Millicent Green is a twenty-five-year-old "old maid" living with her marriage-obsessed mother and domineering older […]

  • Book Group: Sharon Kurtzman

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman An historical novel inspired by the experiences of the author’s own family after the Holocaust. Set in 2018 Raleigh, North Carolina and […]

  • Book Group: Lily Meyer

    JCC MetroWest | Goldstein Room 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    The End of Romance, Lily Meyer An anti-romance romance novel, this is a big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant love story about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that […]