• Gaelen Gallery: WOMEN BY WOMEN: Opening Reception

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

    In honor of Women's History Month An exhibit by women artists who portray women in their work, using a variety of media and styles. March 3 through April 28 Participating Artists: Sybil Archibald • Aliza Augustine • Janet Boltax • Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern • Ellen Hark • Barbara MinchLeslie Nobler • Sarah Petruziello • Sharon Sayegh […]

  • 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 forum for the exchange of ideas and information about books and book making. Light refreshments will be served. Open to all Exhibit runs through October […]

  • 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 death. Mira Novak, who is partly inspired by the Hungarian Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil, is a painter with Hungarian Jewish and Indian heritage. The novel […]

  • 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 betrayal, brutally punishes and abandons her on a small island. Once a child of privilege, Marguerite finds herself at the mercy of nature. As the […]

  • 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 rarefied Upper East Side society the summer before she leaves for college. She spends her evenings at Flanagan’s, the Upper East side bar where she […]

  • 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 career opportunities; and Lucy, a high school senior sneaking around with a much older bachelor—are members of the tight-knit Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn. The […]

  • 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 be here forever" in Italian. At a personal crossroads, Laura returns to her birthplace in Italy on a poignant quest that peels back hidden layers […]

  • 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 foundational democratic values. In Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs to Know, long-time CEO of the American Jewish Committee David Harris provides critical insight into what antisemitism […]

  • 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 is dying. He doesn't know the identity of his biological father or the elusive story of his mother's creatively intense, emotionally turbulent romance with Bob […]

  • 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 group of suburban housewives who help one another navigate their personal challenges, marriages, and their pregnancies - both wanted and unwanted. Moving and atmospheric, full […]