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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” […]

Dov Ben-Shimon is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ. Prior to joining Federation in September 2014, he served as Director […]

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 […]

Ephraim Kishon: Father of Israeli Comedy with Stuart Weinstock   From his roots in Hungary, where he survived the Holocaust and Communist repression, to the peak of the Israeli arts […]

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 […]