Events

VIRTUAL PROGRAM With Author Jonathan Freedland, The Escape Artist Moderated by Rita Benn 12:00 PM over Zoom In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom—among only a tiny handful who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal […]

VIRTUAL PROGRAM With Author Andrew Lawler, Under Jerusalem Moderated by Yaron Eliav, Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish History of Late Antiquity, University of Michigan 7:00 PM over Zoom In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he […]

HYBRID LUNCH & LEARN PROGRAM With Author Debby Applegate, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age Moderated by Chuck Newman 12:00 PM | Lunch at the JCC | Author Will Join Virtually In Roaring Twenties New York City, when the nightclubs closed down, the in-crowd didn’t go home.  Everyone went to Polly’s […]

VIRTUAL PROGRAM With Author Martin Sneider, Shelf Life: A Novel Moderated by Robin Pollak 7:00 PM over Zoom A Jew­ish Amer­i­can fam­i­ly saga set in St. Louis about the rise of its fash­ion retail­ing empire, and how it splits and ulti­mate­ly dev­as­tates the family. As the son of Max Feld­man, the bril­liant founder of the […]