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  • Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning: What’s a Nice Jewish Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Jews, Prison and Spirituality

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

    For the last 28 years, Elaine Leeder has been working in prisons. She has seen that there is redemption, remorse, and contrition behind the walls, finding that people can be transformed even in the most oppressive of circumstances. She will discuss the Jewish values of Teshuvah, Chesed, and Tikkun Olam that deeply inform her work. […]

  • Authors & Ideas Series

    JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Laura Zigman

    Virtual Event | JCC MetroWest NJ, United States

    JCC MetroWest presents, Laura Zigman, "Small World" From bestselling author Laura Zigman comes a heartfelt novel about two offbeat and newly divorced sisters who move in together as adults and finally reckon with their childhood. A heartfelt novel about two offbeat and newly divorced sisters who move in together as adults hoping to forge the […]

  • Adult Enrichment: Laurie A. Hauptman, Esq.

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

    Important Documents: Everything You Need to Know with Laurie A. Hauptman, Esq.   Topics of discussion will include: What families need to know when executing wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives. Who has the legal authority to make decisions and the importance of choosing the right agent(s). Why it is important to […]

  • Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning: 2023: Celebrating the Genius of Pablo Picasso

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

    2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. Join Janet Mandel to learn about Picasso’s inexhaustible creativity and explore his tumultuous life, revealed through beautiful images of his major paintings and sculptures. In conjunction with this lecture, we will be taking a Day Trip to MoMA on Thursday, October 5th. We will […]

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    Life Long Learning: A Beginner’s Guide to Advanced Spirituality

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

    Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz will discuss his award-winning book, Where Are You? A Beginner’s Guide to Advanced Spirituality, as he leads the audience on a journey of transformation. Aided by wisdom from multiple traditions, he will talk about how one can find a spirituality that fits within every religion, and within no religion. Atheists and believers […]

  • Sushi, Saké & Song in the Sukkah

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

    Celebrate under the stars and help welcome the new year with...   Featuring Adam and Howard Music Harmonize along with Adam and Howard, a folk-pop duo covering folk, rock, and blues tunes that span from the 1960’s onwards.   $25/Person REGISTER HERE     Can’t join us? Perform the mitzvah of shaking the lulav and […]

    $25
  • Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning: The History of American Song

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

    The History of American Song is as complex and beautiful as America itself. American music includes Jazz, Blues, Folk, Country, Bluegrass, Broadway, and Rock & Roll. This interactive lecture will include live performances throughout the program, celebrating this wonderful repertoire. Gary Negbaur is a pianist, vocalist, educator, and composer. He plays Jazz, Blues and American […]

  • Authors & Ideas Series

    JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Elizabeth Graver

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

    JCC MetroWest presents, Elizabeth Graver, "Kantika" A dazzling, Sephardic, multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home. Kantika—“song” in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are […]

  • Adult Enrichment: Movie & Discussion

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

    Call 973-530-3448 for the movie title of the week!

  • Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning: 36th Annual Shirley C. Green Memorial Symposium Israel Update with Max Kleinman

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

    Max Kleinman is a consultant for the Jewish Community Legacy Project and chairs the Combatting Antisemitism Initiative for Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, NJ. He is a columnist for the New Jersey Jewish News and president of the Fifth Commandment Foundation. For two decades, he was the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest […]

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    Life Long Learning: The Past Is Prologue: Political Films of the 1970s

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

    The 1970s were an artistically-rich period for American filmmaking, which often responded to recent history and the socio-political environment of the 1970s. Some of these films are best-considered products of their time, while others offer prescient glimpses into the challenges of the 21st Century. This lecture will discuss both, with relevant film clips. Some of […]

  • Adult Enrichment: Music Mavens

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

    Join us for an afternoon featuring “The Music of Broadway”

  • JCC Travel – UAE 2023 Photos with Gina Goldman

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

    Join us as we look at all the wonderful places JCC Travel ventured to during their UAE trip!

  • Authors & Ideas Series

    JEWISH AUTHORS & IDEAS SERIES: Rachel Beanland

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

    JCC MetroWest presents, Rachel Beanland, "The House Is On Fire" Told from the perspectives of four people whose actions changed the course of history, this masterful work of historical fiction takes readers back to 1811 Richmond, Virginia, where, on the night after Christmas, the city's only theater burned to the ground in the middle of […]

  • Adult Enrichment: Movie & Discussion

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

    Call 973-530-3448 for the movie title of the week!

  • Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning: Screen to Stage: When Films Become Broadway Musicals

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

    It used to be common for stage musicals to be adapted as films. The trend has reversed and now it seems like most new Broadway musicals are based on popular films. How far back does this trend go? What caused the switch? John Kenrick celebrates this popular trend with backstage stories and performance videos. John […]