• JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Sara Goodman Confino

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

    JCC MetroWest presents, Sara Goodman Confino, "Don't Forget To Write" When Marilyn Kreinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship […]

  • JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Lisa Barr

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

    JCC MetroWest presents, Lisa Barr, The Goddess of Warsaw Set in 2005 Los Angeles and 1943 Poland, The Goddess of Warsaw is an enthralling tale of a legendary Hollywood screen […]

  • 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 painter Sharon Sayegh and drawing artist John Zollo, both winners of the annual Gaelen Juried Show.   For more […]

  • Curtis Institute of Music featuring Trio Zimbalist

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

    CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT SERIES Curtis Institute of Music featuring Trio Zimbalist   OPEN TO ALL • $25/Member or Guest Dessert reception to follow Josef Špaček violin Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin cello George […]

  • JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Samantha Greene Woodruff

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

    JCC MetroWest presents, Samantha Greene Woodruff, The Trade Off Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street market’s stocks and […]

  • 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 […]

  • Curtis Institute of Music featuring Erinys Quartet

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

    CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT SERIES Named for the Erinyes (a.k.a. the Furies) from the Greek tragedy Oresteia by Aeschylus, and with roots in Estonia, Lithuania, Greece, the United States, and Finland, […]

  • Book Group: Lihi Lapid

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

    JCC MetroWest presents, Lihi Lapid, On Her Own Set between the eve of Passover and Israel’s Independence Day, On Her Own is a tense and immersive psychological read about two […]

  • NJJFF Pregame: Matchmaking

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

    Talkback following the film Director: Erez Tadmor 2022, Israel, 96 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $10 PURCHASE TICKETS A box office hit in Israel and at the […]

  • NJJFF Opening Night: Bad Shabbos

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

    Advance tickets are sold out, but we have a waitlist! Arrive 30 minutes early and add your name. We will sell tickets for all available seats 10 minutes before showtime. […]

  • NJJFF: Running on Sand

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

    Talkback following the film   Director: Adar Shafran 2023, Israel, 104 minutes Hebrew, English, & Tigrinya with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Aumari, a young Eritrean refugee […]

  • NJJFF: Of Dogs and Men

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

    Post-screening Q&A with director/co-writer Dani Rosenberg on Zoom   Director: Dani Rosenberg 2024, Israel, 82 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Filmed on-location in Kibbutz […]

  • NJJFF: Unspoken

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

    Post-screening Q&A with director/writer Jeremy Borison on Zoom   Director: Jeremy Borison 2024, USA, 91 minutes English with English subtitles Feature NJ Premiere! Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Noam, a […]

  • NJJFF: The Spoils

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

    Post-screening Q&A with Janet Cohen Mandel, arts educator and frequent speaker at JCC MetroWest   Director: Jamie Kastner 2024, Canada, 104 minutes English, German with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: […]

  • NJJFF: Come Closer

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

    A pre-recorded Q&A with director/writer Tom Nesher will follow the film   Director: Tom Nesher 2024, Israel, 107 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS When […]

  • NJJFF: Diane Warren: Relentless

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

    Post-screening Q&A with director Bess Kargman on Zoom   Director: Bess Kargman 2025, USA, 91 minutes English with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Diane Warren is one […]

  • NJJFF: Shorts Program

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

    Join us for a globetrotting program of diverse and engaging short films! All are presented with English subtitles. Total running time: 110 minutes   Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Goodman […]

  • NJJFF Spotlight: Matchmaking 2

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

    Talkback following the film   Director: Erez Tadmor 2024, Israel, 100 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature NJ Premiere! Ticket Price: $18 PURCHASE TICKETS Picking up where sold-out 2024 NJJFF […]

  • NJJFF: The Ring

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

    Post-screening Q&A with lead actress Joy Rieger on Zoom   Director: Adir Miller, Doron Paz, Yoav Paz 2024, Israel, 110 minutes Hebrew, English, and Hungarian with English subtitles Feature NJ […]

  • NJJFF: Documentary Double Feature: Jerry’s Last Mission & The Path Forward

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

    Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Mike Yellin and Julie Cohen   Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Jerry’s Last Mission Director: Louisa Merino 2021, USA, 58 minutes English and Japanese with English […]

  • NJJFF: Hemda

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

    Talkback following the film   Director: Shemi Zarhin 2024, Israel, 125 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS In this gentle drama by festival-favorite Israeli filmmaker […]

  • NJJFF: Colleyville

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

    Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Dani Menkin and Colleyville hostage crisis survivor Jeff Cohen on Zoom   Director: Dani Menkin 2024, USA, 80 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: […]

  • NJJFF Spotlight: Sabbath Queen

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

    Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Sandi DuBowski   Director: Sandi DuBowski 2024, USA, 105 minutes English, Hebrew, & Yiddish with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $18 PURCHASE TICKETS Filmed over 21 […]

  • NJJFF: Mazel Tov

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

    Talkback following the film   Director: Adrián Suar 2024, Argentina, 97 minutes Spanish with English subtitles Feature NJ Premiere! Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Acclaimed Jewish-Argentinian actor and filmmaker Adrián […]

  • NJJFF Closing Film: Midas Man

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

    Advance tickets are sold out, but we have a waitlist! Arrive 30 minutes early and add your name. We will sell tickets for all available seats 10 minutes before showtime. […]

  • Book Group: Zibby Owens

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

    JCC MetroWest presents, Zibby Owens, Blank A wife, a mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a hilarious debut novel, Blank, about family, […]

  • Chamber Music Concert featuring Beca Quartet

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

    CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT SERIES The Beca Quartet, comprising violinists Jory Lane and Messiah Ahmed, violist Aditi Prakash, and cellist Miles Goosby, formed in August 2023 at the start of their […]

  • 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

  • Book Group: Sasha Vasilyuk

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

    JCC MetroWest presents, Sasha Vasilyuk, Your Presence is Mandatory A riveting debut novel, based on real events, Your Presence is Mandatory is about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with […]

  • 24th Annual Gaelen Juried Art Show & Sale Opening Reception

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

    Oil/Acrylic/Watercolor • Mixed Media • Sculpture • Drawing/Pastels • Photography   Awards at 2:30 PM Sponsored by Audrey and Norbert Gaelen Endowment Co-Sponsored by JCC MetroWest

  • Book Group: Ayelet Tsabari

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

    JCC MetroWest presents, Ayelet Tsabari, Songs for the Brokenhearted A Yemeni Israeli story of mothers and daughters, love and loss, and secrets untold, the novel shines a light on a […]

  • Book Group: Emily Matchar

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

    JCC MetroWest presents, Emily Matchar, In the Shadow of the Greenbriar Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbriar Resort. Long a playground […]

  • 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 […]

  • Gaelen Gallery Exhibit Opening Reception

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

    Artists Judy Levy and Roberta Reynolds have each been awarded the ribbon for best in their respective media at the 2024 Gaelen Juried Art Show and Sale. This exhibition showcases […]

  • 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 […]