Join Rabbi Reuven Kimelman as he moderates a series featuring Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in discussion with prominent, high profile individuals.  Cosponsored with This World: The Jewish Values Network, this program seeks to bring Jewish values to the mainstream culture. The JCC shares the belief that Judaism, with its unique emphasis on perfecting the world and celebrating life, can help heal America from some of its greatest challenges including its high rates of divorce, teen alienation, depression, and growing ignorance and materialism.
 
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Founder and Executive Director of THIS WORLD: The Jewish Values Network, is an international best-selling author of 22 books, world-renowned broadcaster, relationship expert, speaker, and organizational entrepreneur. He now broadcasts his radio show on America’s number one Talk radio station, WABC 770 AM in New York City. Rabbi Shmuley served as host of the award-winning national TV show, Shalom in the Home on TLC, and as Oprah’s marriage, parenting, and relationships expert on her Oprah and Friends national radio network as host of the daily Rabbi Shmuley Show.

Wednesday, September 15 – a discussion with Dr. Samuel Heilman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Queens College CUNY and holder of the Harold M. Proshansky Chair of Jewish Studies.  Prof. Heilman is the co-author of The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Wednesday, October 13 – a discussion with Lisa Oz, producer, writer, actress, and frequent co-host of The Dr. Oz Show on Oprah & Friends’ XM radio telecast. Lisa has co-authored three New York Times best selling books, including the “YOU: The Owner’s Manual” series.

Wednesday , November 10 – Materialism in the Jewish Community - a discussion with Greg Zuckerman, senior writer at the Wall Street Journal who pens the widely read "Heard on the Street" column and writes about hedge funds, investing, and other Wall Street topics.

This program is made possible in part by the Rabbi Isaac L. Swift Chair of Judaic Studies Endowment Fund

 

Cancelled in event of rain
Join us with our guide,  Captain Hugh Carola, as we cruise through the tidal reaches of the Hackensack River and its wildlife-rich estuary, aboard the Meadowlands, one of Hackensack Riverkeeper's specially-rigged pontoon boats.  The shallow draft of the boats enables you to visit numerous wetlands including Bellman's Creek, the Mill Creek Marsh, Kingsland Creek and the Berry's Creek Canal; but the highlight of every Meadowlands Eco-Cruise is a trip through the Sawmill Creek Wildlife Management Area – the “The Jewel of the Meadowlands”. The Sawmill WMA is home to a staggering amount of wildlife including shorebirds, waterfowl, herons, raptors, muskrats and more. Bring your bagged lunch and we can eat together on the boat.

Meet at the JCC for carpooling at 11am or at the Field Office in Secaucus at 11:30 am. Limited Space Available, so register early. Paid reservation required 9/28

You asked for them...you got them...
The Little Maestros are back...in concert!
An Awesome, Interactive Musical Show for Babies & Toddlers

$15 JCCMembers| $18 General Admission | $20 Day of Event
$ 5 Boxed Brunch (advanced ticket sales only)

Be a Junior Maestro to help sponsor this special family day at the JCC!
$300 (includes 4 tickets, 4 boxed brunches & Little Maestro CD)

Co-Chairs: Liz Flack & Jill Rubach

This is a fundraiser to help support Early Childhood Scholarships

For further information call Sharon Potolsky, 201.408.1405 or email spotolsky@jccotp.org

Lecture with Dr. Jonathan Golden at the JCC  and
Exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, 226 W. 44 Street, NYC

After more than 30 years, the legendary treasures of Tutankhamen make their return to New York in a dazzling, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition. This time with newly revealed information about his life, his family and his death. This New York engagement will be the last opportunity to see these priceless artifacts before they leave North America.

Revel in the splendor of the ancient Egyptian world as you view a dazzling array of possessions unearthed from his tomb, along with antiquities representing his family and contemporaries. Through 10 galleries and 130 artifacts, experience the world of the pharaohs like never before with guidance of head phones. Objects from King Tut's tomb include his royal diadem, the crown found on his head when the tomb was discovered, one of the boy king's four gold and precious stone inlaid canopic coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs and more.

Start the day at the JCC with bagels, cream cheese, coffee and a lecture by Dr Jonathan Golden, Assistant Professor in the anthropology department at Drew University and an expert on Egypt.  He will discuss the 18th Dynasty, a 100-year period when Egypt was at the height of its power, the "golden age" of Egyptian artistry, also the era when Tutankhamun and his ancestors reigned. 
After the lecture, carpool into the city to view this amazing exhibit.

Lecture and Exhibit                   $58/$65* includes head phones
Lecture and brunch only            till 11:15am $10/$15
*JCC transportation optional additional $15.00

LIMITED space available so register early. Paid reservations required by 10/12.

Join us for our WELL Health Symposium

Featuring Moderator: Joan Kron, Editor-at-large, Allure Magazine

Panelists:
Robert M. Freund, MD, FACS
Ellen Gendler, MD, FAAD
Gerald H. Pitman, MD, FACS
Mark R. Sultan, MD, FACS

7 PM Presentations
8 PM Questions & Answers
8:45-9:30 PM VIP Reception

Couvert $75, VIP $180 (includes preferred seating and reception with the panel)

For further information, please contact Sharon Potolsky, 201.408.1405 or emailspotolsky@jccotp.org

This film tells the remarkable true story of Colonel Ilan Ramon, Israel's first Astronaut and a tiny Torah that he carried from the depths of hell to the heights of space.

This tiny Torah scroll was smuggled into a concentration camp during the Holocaust; safeguarded by Joachim Joseph, a Holocaust survivor; and later carried into space by Col.  Ramon. It is a unique story that interweaves the heights of scientific achievement, the depths of a nation’s cruelty, the private grief of a boy who came of age during the Holocaust, and the public mourning of many nations in the aftermath of the Columbia Shuttle disaster. To fulfill the promise that a boy in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp made– to use the Torah scroll to tell the world what happened in the camp – comes An Article of Hope an hour-long film exploring the journey of the Torah from pre-World War II Europe, to Israel, and then to space. Combining historical and ethical inquiry, the film reaches across faiths and nationalities.
Free and open to the community

Cosponsored with the Adult Department
 

WITH AUTHOR SUSAN HIRSHMAN

As Susan Hirshman sees it, the rules of successful dieting are the same rules that apply to successful money management. In this upbeat and informative guide, she offers women a three phase personalized plan that follows common dieting programs to help them understand their finances. Susan offers specific advice on topics such as how to develop realistic and attainable goals, how to make smart financial decisions, and how to etermine the best way to invest based on the reader’s “investment personality.”

Ms. Hirshman is president of SHE LTD, a consulting firm focused on enhancing the financial literacy of women globally. Formerly she was a managing director and wealth manager with one of the world’s top financial services organizations. In addition to being a CPA she is also a CFA and a CFP.

Co-sponsored with the Adult Department.

Start the day at the JCC with coffee, cake and presentation by Sheryl Intrator Urman, artist and art historian. Learn about the Modern Art Movement which began in Europe and developed further in the United States. 

Following the presentation we will go to the MET where we will continue the discussion on the Modern Art Movement in the US, with Sheryl as our guide during a private tour of the John Baldessari: Pure Beauty Exhibit. 

This is the first major U.S. exhibition in twenty years to survey the work of the legendary American artist John Baldessari, widely renowned as a pioneer of conceptual art.
Baldessari (b.1931, California) turned from an early career in painting toward photographic images that he combined with text, using the freeways, billboards, and strip malls of Southern California as his frequent sources. Throughout his career, Baldessari's sharp insights into the conventions of art production, the nature of perception, and the relationship of language to mass-media imagery are tempered by a keen sense of humor. The exhibition brings together a full range of the artist's innovative work over five decades.

Lecture and Museum Visit:  $36/$42*
Lecture Only, 9:30- 11am: $10 /$15
*JCC transportation optional for an additional $15.00

Paid registration required by 11/8

 

WITH AUTHOR DAVID SAX

As a journalist and life-long deli obsessive, David Sax was understandably alarmed by the state of Jewish delicatessen. A cuisine that had once sat at the very center of Jewish life had become endangered by assimilation, homogenization, and health food trends. He watched one beloved deli after another shut down, one institution after another shutter only to be reopened as some bland chain-restaurant laying claim to the very culture it just paved over. And so David set out on a journey across the United States and around the world in search of authentic delicatessen. Was it still possible to Save the Deli? Join David as he investigates everything deli–its history, its diaspora, its next generation.

Los Angeles Times Bestseller, winner of the 2010 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Memoir and Winner of a 2010 James Beard Award.

at Tenafly Middle School
This year’s concert will focus on songs of the holidays, both traditional Cantorial pieces as well as more popular Hebrew songs. Regaling us with solo performances as well as ensembles are some of the finest voices in the NJ and NY area. Make sure to put the date on your calendar and come prepared to enjoy a great concert! 

Open to the community, suggested donation $5

Made possible in part by the Weinflash family Cantorial Concert Endowment Fund

Instructor: Sheryl Intrator Urman, Art for Learning, LLC

Have you ever wondered about fragrance, perfume and the commercialization of the Perfume industry as we know it?  Join Sheryl as she talks about the perfume industry and the personalization of scents.  After the lecture, join her in a workshop, where you will be introduced to certain essential oils and essences and to basic perfume making. You will be able to create your own fragrance, design and create your own signature bottle to bring your new fragrance home.  Pre-registration required by 12/2.

*Materials fee of $10 per person payable to instructor

WITH AUTHOR DANI SHAPIRO

Devotion is Dani Shapiro’s highly personal search for something to believe. Shapiro, raised in an Orthodox home, left the rules and rituals of her childhood far behind as she lived a modern, fast-paced, urban life as a working wife and mother. It was only when her young son began to question her about what she believed, that she realized she no longer knew. She had opted out. So she opted back in, as she embarked on a journey which took her from meditation retreats to yoga shalas to visits with her Orthodox relatives. A spiritual detective story at once deeply intimate and completely universal, Devotion tells the story of one woman whose search for answers brings her home again.

Shapiro appeared on The Today Show for Devotion, which was chosen as one of their best books this winter. O Magazine called it a “must read” and People magazine gave it four stars for being “brave, compelling and unexpectedly witty.”

WITH AUTHOR KATHERINE ROSMAN

On the day their sixty-yearold mother Suzy died of lung cancer, Katherine Rosman and her sister Lizzie took their mom’s Visa card out for one last spin. It was with this kind of irreverence that they faced their mother’s disease and death—and their own struggle to balance the agony of losing her with their relief that she was no longer suffering.

Driven by grief and haunted by the idea that she would only ever remember her mother as a cancer victim, Wall Street Journal culture reporter Rosman began digging into Suzy’s past, using her professional acumen to research an extremely personal subject: Who was Suzy? The book is a very funny and heart-rending celebration of a strong, vibrant, vital woman and a defining mother-daughter relationship that will strike a chord with parents and children alike.

Will be held at a private home.

sponsored by James H. Grossmann Memorial Jewish Bonth Month and Special Events, proceeds benefit JCC programming

WITH AUTHOR CATHLEEN SCHINE

When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five... He said the words “Irreconcilable differences,” and saw real confusion in his wife’s eyes. “Irreconcilable differences?” she said. “Of course there are irreconcilable differences. What on earth does that have to do with divorce?”

Thus begins The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a sparkling contemporary adaptation of Sense and Sensibility from the always winning Cathleen Schine, who has already been crowned “a modern-day Jewish Jane Austen” by People’s Leah Rozen.

Cathlene Schine is the author of The New Yorkers and The Love Letter. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review.

To be held at the home of Judy Gold.

Sponsored by James H. Grossmann Memorial Jewish Book Month and Special Events, proceeds benefit JCC programming

Judy Gold and Mara Wallach, Co-chairs

WITH AUTHOR MELVIN UROFSKY

The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court – a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.

“[A] monumental, authoritative and appreciative biography of the man Franklin D. Roosevelt callded” Isaiah”... [Urofsky] demonstrates, deploying a Brandeisan array of factual material, why Brandeis still matters, nearly 70 years after his death.” – Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Times Book Review.

Melvin I. Urofsky is Professor of Law & Public Policy and Professor Emeritus of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and was the chair of its History Department.

WITH AUTHOR MORDECAI DZIKANSKY

Meet Mordecai Dzikansky, the New York cop who became a leading authority on the phenomenon of suicide bombing. Terrorist Cop: The NYPD Jewish Cop Who Traveled the World to Stop Terrorists is Morty’s story: heroic, poignant, heartrendering.

In a rare departure for homicide detectives, Morty Dzikansky has written his memoirs, describing how, working for the NYPD, he went undercover as a rabbi to chase Torah thieves and then, while on assignment in Israel, became the world’s leading authority on suicide bombings. Dzikansky discloses how too many visits to suicide bombing sites led him to become a different kind of victim from those he found at the bombing sites: He himself bacame a post trauma stress disorder victim.

Co-sponsored with Public Affairs

Sponsored in part by the Berit and Martin Bernstein Open Forum Endowment Fund and the Edwin Soforenko Foundation