10/25, 7:30 pm, Author, Marc Agronin: How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old www.dacapopress.com
MARC E. AGRONIN, MD
“A successful explication of how aging
equals vitality, wisdom, creativity, spirit and ultimately, hope.” – Kirkus Reviews
How We Age:
A Doctor’s Journey into
the Heart of Growing Old
His beat is a nursing home in Miami that some would dismiss as “God’s waiting Room.” Nothing in young Dr. Agronin’s medical training prepared him for what he was to discover…the true scales of aging aren’t one-sided. You can’t list the problems without also tallying the hopes and promises.
Agronin’s book conjures a spellbinding look at what aging means today: how our bodies and brains change over time, and how the very way we understand aging is contantly changing.
Marc E. Agronin, MD is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Medical School.
He serves as a psychiatrist at the Miami Jewish Health Systems.
$12, students $6
• Sponsored by the Tanya Ganson Memorial Lecture Fund • Co-sponsored by the Jewish Family Service of Buffalo & Erie County New York, Maimonides Medical Society of WNY, and The Jewish Liberal Arts Club
10/27, 7:30 pm Author, Amos Oz at Kleinhans (A Babel Series event, supported by the Jewish Community Book Fair. Please visit www.justbuffalo.org)
11/1, 5:30 pm – hors d’oeuvres, 6:00 pm – dinner served – Autumn Harvest Dinner & Concert
www.amromchodos.com
AUTUMN HARVEST DINNER & CONCERT
Be sure to attend the celebration of the JCC’s first gourmet kosher dinner (BVK) catered by our Myers Family Tel Aviv Café Tuesday, November 1 5:30 pm – hors d’oeuvres 6:00 pm – dinner served
Venue: JCC Benderson
Menu:
•Assorted hors d’oeuvres
•Butternut Ginger Soup
•Choice of Pan Seared Salmon
or Roasted Vegetable Stack
•Vegetable: chef’s choice
•Field Greens Waldorf Salad
•Red Roasted Potatoes
•Dessert
•Wine, soda, coffee, assorted teas
$36 per guest – limited seating
prepaid reservations only by 10/28
In Concert :
“Son of a Cantor Man”
Robbie Hausmann – cello
Alfred Frenning – piano
Amrom Chodos – clarinet
Cantor Irwin Gelman – vocals
8:00 pm – following dinner
Venue: JCC Benderson
Featuring the music of Jewish composers whose fathers were Cantors…who nu? Yiddishkeit at its very best.
The concert is FREE to the community with or without the dinner Tickets are necessary as seating is limited. Please request only what you will use (4 ticket limit per order).
• Concert sponsored by the Shuman Family Foundation
11/13, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm, 2nd Annual Global Day of Jewish Learning. Topic: The Shema. Keynote speaker Rabbi Barry Schwartz (former Rabbi at Temple Sinai in Amherst, NY)
GLOBAL DAY OF JEWISH LEARNING
Sunday, November 13 10:00 am
Venue: JCC Benderson
A Global Day program was presented last season to coincide with the completion
of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s translation and commentary on the Talmud. Jews from over 400 communities in 48 countries participated in over 600 events on the same day. The program was such a success that it’s happening again, with a new theme…the unity of the Jewish people through the words of the Shema!
Keynote talk: People of the E-Book, by Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz.
Rabbi Schwartz, former Rabbi at Temple Sinai, is returning to Buffalo to take part in Global Day and to celebrate Temple Sinai’s 60th Anniversary. Mazel Tov!
Rabbi Schwartz is currently Director of the Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia and Rabbi of Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia, NJ.
Following the keynote talk will be a choice of workshops led by: Rabbi Heschel Greenberg, Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein, Rabbi Perry Netter, Rabbi Irwin Tanenbaum and Cantor Sharon Colbert.
FREE and open to the community (tickets necessary as seating for keynote speaker is limited) • Sponsored by the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo in cooperation with local Synagogues and Jewish organizations Co-chairs – Jill Ginsburg (BJE) and Sandy Saada (JCC) For more information contact Jill at 923-0020, jill@bjebuffalo.org or Sandy at 688-4114, ext. 337, ssaada@jccbuffalo.org General Global Day information at www.1people1day.org
11/13, 7:30 pm, Author, Priscilla Warner: Learning to Breathe (and The Faith Club) www.simonandschuster.com Go to authors, type in Priscilla Warner.
PRISCILLA WARNER
“When I finished Priscilla’s book, a smile washed over my face and I let out a sigh. I promise you will do the same.” – Meredith Vieira
Learning To Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life
Sunday, November 13 7:30 pm
Venue: JCC Benderson
Priscilla Warner should have been content. A Penn graduate, an accomplished art director, and co-author of the New York Times best seller, The Faith Club. She was happily married and the mother of two grown sons. But for forty years, she’d suffered from debilitating anxiety and panic attacks. When she read about Tibetan monks who had meditated so effectively that they were able to change their brains, Warner wanted in! Written with lively wit and humor, Learning To Breathe chronicles Warner’s mission to rewire her brain and her body in search of her own “inner monk.”
Priscilla Warner has appeared on the Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN and NPR. She writes for More Magazine and The Huffington Post.
$12, students $6
• Introduction from The Faith Club of Buffalo • Co-sponsored by area Temple Sisterhoods and others (as listed on www.jccbookfair.com) and The Faith Club of Buffalo
11/15,16,17, 7:00 pm each evening- Professor, Alan Dowty lectures about the Middle East, (presented by UB’s Institute of Jewish Thought & Heritage) Google Alan Dowty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dowty
ALAN DOWTY
A Three Part Lecture Series
A Short Course on
the Middle East
November 15 7:00 pm
“The Middle East Today”
November 16 7:00 pm
“Ancient and Modern Israel”
November 17 7:00 pm
“The Arab-Israel Arena”
Venue: JCC Benderson
Alan Dowty is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.
In 2003-2006 Professor Dowty was the first holder of the Kahanoff Chair in Israeli Studies at the University of Calgary, and in 2005-2007 he was President of the Association for Israel Studies. He has published widely and lectured in over 20 countries on the Arab-Israel conflict, Israeli politics, and U.S. foreign policy.
FREE and open to the community
• These lectures are made possible by a generous grant by Dr. Ron Dozoretz • Sponsored by the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage of the University at Buffalo
11/20, 11:30 am Author, Lucette Lagnado: The Arrogant Years (and The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit). Check out books at www.amazon.com
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/29557/Lucette_Lagnado/index.aspx
LUCETTE LAGNADO
Ordinary family experiences are spun into enchanting fairy tales, complete with magical backdrops, nasty villains and dashing heroes
The Arrogant Years
Books & Brunch (kosher BVK)
Sunday, November 20 11:30 am
Venue: JCC Benderson
In 2007, Lucette Lagnado, prize winning
writer for the Wall Street Journal, wrote her moving autobiography The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit where she brilliantly described the troubled lives of her Egyptian Jewish family, a painful story of a little known defunct community.
The Arrogant Years, the second volume of her autobiography provides a marvelous snapshot of the tumultuous ‘60s and ‘70s and the destabilizing effects of rapid change on young women grappling to find a place in the New World order.
Born in Cairo, Lucette Lagnado and her family were forced to flee Egypt as refugees when she was a small child, eventually coming to New York.
$16, students $8 – includes brunch (prepaid reservations by 11/16) $12, students $6 – without brunch (talk begins at approx. 12:30pm) • Co-sponsored by People of the Book and Buffalo Hadassah
11/21, 7:30 pm. Author, Kathy Kacer: Restitution & To Hope and Back (morning presentation to schoolgroups) www.kathykacer.com and www.secondstorypress.ca
KATHY KACER
Award winning young readers author presents two new books for adults and students Restitution: A family’s fight for their heritage lost in the Holocaust To Hope and Back: The Journey of the St. Louis
Monday, November 21 7:30 pm
Venue: JCC Benderson
Restitution: A family’s fight for their heritage lost in the Holocaust is the true story of four paintings and one family’s enduring spirit. A story of strength and determination, told in compelling detail.
To Hope and Back: The Journey of the St. Louis is the true story of Lisa Avedon (now living in Toronto) and Sol Messinger (well known in Buffalo!) Lisa and Sol were young children when they boarded the St. Louis – a ship full of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi-controlled Germany in 1939. After the ship was denied refuge in Cuba, the story alternates between the innocent views of the children and the ship’s Captain, frustrated by his desperate efforts to find safe harbor for his passengers.
Kathy Kacer, a child of Holocaust survivors, travels around the world speaking to young people about the importance of understanding the Holocaust.
$12, students $6
• Special guest: Dr. Sol Messinger
• Co-sponsored by People of the Book, The Rubin & Luba Literman Fund of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, Kadimah School of Buffalo and supported by area middle schools
12/1, 7:30 pm Author, Joan Leegant: Wherever You Go www.joanleegant.com
JOAN LEEGANT
A debut novel by a writer who brings
“matter and spirit together…with unsuspected, unquantifiable meaning.” New York Times Book Review
Wherever You Go
Thursday, December 1 7:30 pm
Venue: JCC Benderson
Leegant’s novel follows three Americans in Jerusalem and shines a light on one of the most pressing issues in Israeli society today: Jewish extremists and their threat to the modern democratic state.
This is a stunningly timely book for Jews worldwide.
Joan Leegant, an award winning author, formerly worked as an attorney. She also taught fiction writing at Harvard University for eight years. Since 2007, she has lived half the year in Tel Aviv, where she is the visiting writer at Bar-Ilan University and lectures for the U.S. State Department.
$12, students $6
• Sponsored by The Samuel and Sophie Weinstein Memorial Lecture Fund
12/11, 2:00pm The Twins From France, Circus Entertainment and Hanukkah celebration for the entire family www.thetwinsfromfrance.com
The Fred H. Sales Fund presents:
THE TWINS FROM FRANCE
Young or young at heart -
This is a show you won’t want to miss!
The Acrobatic Twins From France!
Sunday, December 11 2:00 pm
Venue: JCC Benderson
Never before has there been a more entertaining acrobatic team than the Chassidic Twins from France! Yaacov and Yisroel will have you sitting on the edge of your seat! Their comedic routine will enthrall you! Their acrobatics will amaze you!
Opening Concert: Jewish Fusion with Soul Klezmer, Ladino and Israeli music featuring local musicians: Alex Gordon (percussion & clarinet) Moshe Ben Abraham (vocals,keyboard & guitar) Marty Kerker (vocals, keyboard & guitar)
JUST ADDED TO THE SHOW IS MAGICIAN MICHAEL KUGEL!
http://www.magicmanmike.com
$12, students $6, $45 family (parents & their children) • Visit www.thetwinsfromfrance.com for photos and videos • Co-sponsors: The Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies, Rabbi Avrohom Meir and Chaya Shuman in honor of their children, Knesset Center Synagogue and the Bokobza family
All programs are subject to change.
