Educational Programs

Join us with your grandchildren for our first Challah Baking Workshop! See how easy it is to make your own Challah and the significance of the ingredients. Best of all, you'll go home with your own braided Challahs to enjoy!

This course will offer ways to trigger the imagination and stimulate the writing process.

Tuesdays, 7 – 9 PM

April 17 – June 5
$260

Come join us in a comfy and casual setting to view and discuss wonderful Jewish and Israeli films.

Film introduction and refreshments: 12:45 pm

Film viewing at 1:00 pm followed by a casual discussion.

Member Value Fee $50 for series / Regular Fee $70 for series

Member Value Fee $6 at the door / Regular Fee $8 at the door

Instructors: Susan Jackson, Cyrel Troster and Mike Slodovnik.

May 14, 2012

Munich, (2005) | 164 min

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Tony Kushner (screenplay), Eric Roth (screenplay)

Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig and Marie-Josée Croze

Set in the aermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at

the 1972 Munich Olympics, the story follows a secret Israeli

squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians

suspected to have planned the Munich attack, and the

personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and

the man who led it. Nominated for 5 Oscars.

June 25, 2012

Waltz with Bashir, (2008) | 90 min

Director: Ari Folman / Writer: Ari Folman

Stars: Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai and Ronny Dayag

English subtitles

Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982

invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of

his term of service in that conflict. Nominated for Oscar,

won 5 Award of the Israeli Film Academy and won the

golden globe award.

July 23, 2012

The Jazz Singer, (1980) | 115 min

Director: Richard Fleischer

Writers: Samson Raphaelson (play),

Herbert Baker (screenplay),

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Neil Diamond and Lucie Arnaz

Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young

Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.

Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife,

Yussel travels to California to play his music. Swept up

by the excitement, he meets a woman who shares his

dream. He grows apart from his family, and becomes

confused about what he should ultimately do with his life.

August 20, 2012

Arranged, (2007) | 89 minutes

Directors: Diane Crespo, Stefan C. Schaefer

Writers: Stefan C. Schaefer and Yuta Silverman

Stars: Zoe Lister Jones, Francis Benhamou and Mimi Lieber

Arranged centers on the friendship between an Orthodox

Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year

teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of

the year, they learn that they share much in common - not

least of which is that they are both going through the

process of arranged marriages.