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JCC MetroWest presents, Daisy Alpert Florin, “My Last Innocent Year” It’s 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of a Lower East Side appetizing store owner, has one semester left…

JCC MetroWest presents, Jennifer Rosner, “Once We Were Home” Among the tragedies of WWII were the Jewish children separated from their families, given new names, and instructed to follow new…

JCC MetroWest presents, Andrew Ridker, “Hope” Ridker’s slashing satire of upper-middle-class life turns on the foibles of a seemingly charmed Jewish family in Brookline, Mass. Scott Greenspan is a well-respected…

JCC MetroWest presents, Buzzy Jackson, “To Die Beautiful” Based on the true story of Hannie Schaft, known to the Nazis as the Girl with Red Hair. It’s 1940 and Hannie Schaft…

JCC MetroWest presents, Cathleen Schine, “Kunstlers in Paradise” For years, clever and glamorous Mamie Künstler, 93, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with her housekeeper and gigantic…

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…

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…

Dini Klein is a food host, founder of Prep + Ral­ly, a fam­i­ly meal-prep sub­scrip­tion ser­vice, and the author of Prep + Ral­ly: An Hour of Prep, a Week of…

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…

You are invited to our Bagel & Beethoven 2023 Season Our Bagels & Beethoven* Chamber Music Concert Series morning performances are designed to be informal, fun, and informative. Each concert…