The Diary of a Young Girl, is a personal account of a Jewish teenager hiding from the Nazis during the Holocaust in the Netherlands. Written in Dutch, the diary details Anne’s life, thoughts, and experiences in the “Secret Annex” before her family was arrested in 1944. Watch as the talented students of Mainland Regional High School perform their incredible adaptation of the book.
Join us for an engaging look at the weekly Torah portion, exploring timeless stories and themes that connect to today’s world. No prior knowledge needed – just curiosity!
Ticket: FREE
Enjoy a night of Jewish entertainment and Yiddishkayt, delivered with young, zestful, sexy energy. Lea gives tradition a face lift. Yiddish Theater, forgotten melodies, original songs and mashups- from Rap to Rumba, Folk to Feminism, Lea blends styles and languages like a smoothie. She slips into different characters to make you laugh with one eye and cry with the other. You will meet her alter ego REBBETZIN LEA, so if you need a matchmaker, you better be there!
Preschooler Silas loves face timing with his great-grandmother Faye. They always sign off with a silly rhyme like “See You Soon, Macaroon” or “See You Soon, Green Balloon.” One day, when she shows him the special spice box that his great-grandfather made for her, they decide to celebrate Havdalah together online. Great-grandmother Faye explains that she likes that Shabbat comes “every seven days no matter what” and that she always says good-bye to Shabbat “in exactly the same way.”
While Silas is able to find a kiddush cup and braided candle in his house, he doesn’t have a spice box, so he decides to make one himself, just like his great-grandfather did. He celebrates Havdalah with his great-grandmother online and then, at the end of the story, they get to celebrate in person when she comes for a visit.
B.A.Shapiro is well known for her books about the art world, such as The Mural-ist and The Art Forg¬er. Each of these books features a heroine who solves a mystery involving a painting or paintings. The Lost Masterpiece fol¬lows this same pat¬tern, and is sure to become anoth¬er favorite with readers.
The story is told by four narrators: Berthe Morisot, a contemporary of Manet and, in the story, his lover; Aimée, her daugh¬ter; Colette, Aimée’s daugh¬ter; and Tama¬ra, their present-day descen¬dant. Tama¬ra receives news that she has inher¬it¬ed a new¬ly dis¬cov-ered Manet, Par¬ty on the Seine. When she takes pos¬ses¬sion of the paint¬ing, strange things begin to hap¬pen. She is also sued for the paint¬ing by a rel¬a¬tive of Manet’s. The book cov¬ers the sto¬ries of the four women over time, with most of the book focus¬ing on Berthe’s career as an artist, and Tamara’s strug¬gle to keep the paint¬ing and find out its true provenance.
Celebrate Jewish culinary tradition with a hands-on Babka Making workshop led by acclaimed baker Tova Rapoport. Discover the secrets behind this beloved sweet bread and take home your beautifully braided creation.
Ticket: $36
Dan Slater’s The Incorruptibles takes us back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when Jews were prominent in crime. This was true in Great Britain, East Europe, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, and especially the United States. There were important Jewish criminals and Jewish gangs in virtually every major American city, but their presence was especially heavy in the Jewish New York City neighborhoods of the Lower East Side in Manhattan and Brownsville – East New York in Brooklyn. Allen Street, in the heart of the Lower East Side ghet¬to, was famous for its many brothels.
Jews, whether indi¬vid¬u¬al¬ly or in gangs, were involved in pros¬ti¬tu¬tion, rack¬e¬teer¬ing, rob¬bery, and, in the case of Mur¬der, Inc., even homi¬cide. Jews were par¬tic¬u¬lar¬ly promi¬nent in boot¬leg¬ging dur¬ing Pro¬hi¬bi¬tion. Charles King Solomon (Boston), Longy Zwill¬man (Newark), Wax¬ey Gor¬don (Philadel¬phia), Sol¬ly Weiss¬man (Kansas City), and Moe Dalitz (Cleve¬land) dom-i¬nat¬ed the liquor trade in their cities. Crime was an avenue of upward social mobil¬i¬ty for Amer¬i¬can Jew¬ish males, just as it had been for Irish and Ger¬man Amer¬i¬cans and would in the future be for Black and Lati¬no Americans.
New York, 2022. Jes¬sa Gid¬ney is try¬ing to have it all – a high-pow¬ered legal career, a mean¬ing¬ful mar¬riage, and hope¬ful¬ly, one day, a child. But when her pro¬fes¬sion¬al ambi¬tions come up short and Jes¬sa finds her¬self at a turn¬ing point, she leans into her fam¬i¬ly’s his¬to¬ry of activism by tak¬ing on pro bono work at a near¬by deten¬tion cen¬ter. There she meets Iso¬bel Perez – a young moth¬er fight¬ing to stay with her daugh¬ter – but as she gets to know Iso¬bel, an unset¬tling rev¬e¬la¬tion about Iso¬bel’s health leads Jes¬sa to uncov¬er a hor¬ri¬fy¬ing pat¬tern of med¬ical mal¬prac¬tice with¬in the deten¬tion facil¬i¬ty. One that shock¬ing¬ly has ties to her own family.
Vir¬ginia, 1927. Car¬rie Buck is an ordi¬nary young woman in the cen¬ter of an extra¬or¬di¬nary legal bat¬tle at the fore¬front of the Amer¬i¬can eugen¬ics con¬ver¬sa¬tion. From a poor fam¬i¬ly, she was only six years old when she first became a ward of the state. Une¬d¬u¬cat¬ed and with¬out any sup¬port, she spends her youth dream¬ing about a dif¬fer¬ent future – one sep¬a¬rate from her exploita¬tive fos¬ter fam¬i¬ly – unknow¬ing of the rip¬ples her small, coun¬try life will have on an entire nation.
As Jes¬sa works to assem¬ble a case against the prison and the crimes she believes are being com¬mit¬ted there, she dis¬cov-ers the land¬mark Supreme Court case involv¬ing Car¬rie Buck with shock¬ing¬ly sim¬i¬lar impli¬ca¬tions to the one before her now. Her con¬nec¬tion to the case, how¬ev¬er, is deep¬er and much more per¬son¬al than she ever knew – send¬ing her down new paths that will leave her for¬ev¬er changed and deter¬mined to fight for these women, no mat¬ter the cost.
A midlife cri¬sis is hard¬ly unique — unless it involves time trav¬el and mul¬ti¬ple rein¬car¬na¬tions.
Ephraim stress¬es over his teach¬ing job, obses¬sive-com¬pul¬sive dis¬or¬der, and his less-than-stel¬lar role as a hus¬band and father. Isn’t there more to life?
He’s about to find out, but it will take trav¬el¬ing to past lives to rec¬ti¬fy wrongs from pre¬vi¬ous eras.
His san¬i¬ty teeters between day-to-day life strug¬gles and treach¬er¬ous events of the past, includ¬ing a face-off with Spain’s Grand Inquisi¬tor, labor¬ing in a sweat¬shop, and forg¬ing a rela¬tion¬ship with Miss Amer¬i¬ca of 1945, among oth¬ers.
Ephraim wants to quit but is compelled by a force from somewhere deep inside — and Above. His last mission could bring redemption to the entire world, if the past doesn’t kill him first.
Ticket: $15
Experience the Torah as living literature. In this Parsha of the Week session, we unpack narrative, character, and moral insight from the week’s reading—perfect for lovers of great stories
