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Special Summer Life Long Learning Presentation Discover the transformative power of Culinary Therapy with Executive Chef Cardie Mortimer, who leads his audiences on a journey of inspiration, laughter, and healing […]

The Jewish Catskill resorts of the 20th Century were a summer paradise for millions and the birthplace of great comic careers. Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar, Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Jackie […]

The Ritzer Lecture We sometimes feel a helplessness with the changes that accompany aging, perhaps a sorrowful sense of loss. How can we take a different, more spiritual view of […]

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum paints a vivid portrait of Gilded Age New York, a city teeming with nefarious rogues and capitalist power, all straddling the line between underworld enterprise and “legitimate” […]

Benjamin Mann, Chief Planning Officer at the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest   Free to All / Reservations strongly encouraged / Refreshments to follow REGISTER HERE The annual Shirley C. […]

Sonia Delaunay was an avant-garde artist who spent her life experimenting with the language of color and abstraction. She developed a varied practice, giving equal weight to design and fine […]

A Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Lecture with Brittany Haliani   This program will discuss how to research and find accurate health information on the internet. Brittany Haliani started her medical library […]

The Birth of Rock and Roll, the British Invasion, Broadway Classics, Cool and Latin Jazz with Gary Negbaur Come Rock through the 50s and 60s with Gary Negbaur. This interactive […]

Was Captain Von Trapp really a strict disciplinarian to his seven children? How did Rodgers and Hammerstein come to adapt their story as a Broadway musical? And why did the […]

Jews have been a part of West Point since the first class of 1802. In 2019, the number of Jewish graduates from the Academy passed 1,000. Joel Kampf of West […]

The Jazzmen is a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie. It looks mainly at these three maestros' lives off […]

Dr. Howard Rudominer will discuss the topic, Anxiety and Depression in the Golden Years: Overcoming Worry and Fear. As a board-certified psychiatrist, Dr. Rudominer has extensive experience treating patients with […]

In Here's to the Ladies, the follow-up to Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater, theatre journalist Eddie Shapiro sits down for intimate conversations with more of […]

Join David and Susan Schwartz on a whirlwind tour of Costco warehouses around the globe. They are two of Costco's biggest fans yet live in one of NYC's smallest apartments. […]

This talk will discuss the important relationship Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, art stars of Vienna’s Golden Age, had with their many Jewish patrons. We will see some amazing paintings […]

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My Fair Lady: Broadway's 'Loverly' Musical Hit - After being told a musical based on Shaw's 'Pygmalion' couldn't work, Lerner and Loewe turned it into a one of the greatest […]