Exhibit Tour: Celebrate SD!
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Join the CJC for an exclusive curator-led tour of the San Diego History Center’s exhibit “Celebrate San Diego! The History and Heritage of San Diego’s Jewish Community.” Walk...
‘Watching the moon at night’: The film that speaks truth to terror
A documentary about terror, especially if you have come perilously close to experiencing it in your own life or have lost people you love to it, as I have, can have you biting your lips,...
Gustav Mahler: Jewish Identity and Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 6:00 PM
A Pre-Concert Lecture
with Dr. Daniel Jütte (NYU)
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To be followed at 7:00 PM by
Cantata Profana performing
Gustav Mahler's
"Das Lied von der Erde"
and works by Strauss, Meyerbeer, Schoenberg, and Lewandowski that place Mahler's...
The Sorceress (Di Kishefmakherin) for the first time in over 80 years!
The first musical theatre piece to be produced under NYTF's Global Restoration Project, an initiative to repair and bring to life the lost, damaged, and forgotten works of the Yiddish theatre canon.
5 performances...
Contemporary Jewish Museum Opens Sabbath-Oriented Exhibit
San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum has opened a new exhibit dedicated to the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest, at its historic SOMA building.
Sabbath: The 2017 Dorothy Saxe Invitational can be seen at CJM (736 Mission St. between...
‘Indecent’ To Air On PBS ‘Great Performances’ This Friday
"Indecent,” Paula Vogel’s loving paean to Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance,” will get its own resurrection this Friday; a filmed performance of the play from its Broadway run will air on PBS’s “Great Performances.”
“Indecent,” which won...
‘Sephardic Weekend’ to celebrate Jewish culture of Spain, Portugal, Morocco
Food, music, prayer and discussion will provide an engaging glimpse of an ancient culture and the people who still connect with it, as part of “Sephardic Weekend.”
Hosted by Congregation Bet Haverim’s Adult Education Committee,...
Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre sets Jewish Film Series
Food, music and politics define the Jewish Film Series that launches this weekend at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington.
The series is less an official event than an ad hoc grouping of good movies...
New Film “1945” Explores Post-Holocaust Hungary and Local Collaboration Against the Jews
A new Hungarian film depicting the post-WWII attitude toward Jews in the country premiered last week in New York.
The movie, “1945,” is set one year after the Jewish population of a small Hungarian village was deported...