Monday – Lecture Series: Music Appreciation w/ Michael Ludwig
1/6 @ 1:30 PM/CH Instructor: Michael Ludwig A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein as Composer, Conductor, Pianist, and Scholar....
January 1, 2025
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Mondays – The English Language: A Journey
1/20 & 1/27 @ 11:00 AM/CH Instructor: Professor Judy Okun In the class, we will trace the dynamic evolution of the English language through its Germanic origins, Norse and Norman invasions, to its current position as a global language. We will also examine the development of alphabets...
January 1, 2025
Mondays – On Stage Live, Life & Music of
1/13 & 1/27 @ 7:30 PM/CH 1/13 Carly Simon: Becoming famous in the early 1970s, she brought a style of introspective folk-rock style music, often teaming up with her sister, Broadway composer Lucy Simon and her husband, James Taylor. Her famous song, “You’re So Vain” has...
January 1, 2025
Tuesday – Literary Fingerprints
1/7, & 1/21 @ 11:00AM/CH Instructor: Heathe Overdor Literary Fingerprints – How novels and poetry reflected culture, society, and taboos of the 17th and 18th centuries, leading to feminist writers like Mary Brunton, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen; to socio-political adventure writers like Alexander Dumas and Charles...
January 1, 2025
Tuesdays – Jewish Composers 30’s, 40’s, 50’s 60’s, 70’s, & 80’s
1/14 & 1/28 @ 11:00AM/CH Instructor: Dan Pantano 1/14 Jewish Composers 30's, 40's, 50's This includes the great composers/lyricists who changed Broadway from cabaret shows to full productions. It includes the works of: Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, George & Ira Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill,...
January 1, 2025
Wednesdays – Critical Thinking
1/8, 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29 @ 10:00 AM / MR Instructor: Steve Pollack (Please note: The Critical Thinking classes have been focused on topical/political issues, but will re-focus on critical thinking habits, going forward) Examining the difference between bias and reason – how the most difficult and...
January 1, 2025
Wednesdays – How Did We Get Here?
1/8, 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29 @ 11:00 AM/CH Instructor: Steve Pollack Post-Civil War Restoration, The Gilded Age, Immigration in America, Vladimir Lenin, War with Spain and Labor Unrest...
January 1, 2025
Wednesday – Women in History; Myths, Legends and Lore & Abraham, Mary Todd and the Lincoln Lineage
1/8, & 1/15 @ 1:00 PM/CH Hosted by: Barbara Anderson 1/8 Women in History; Myths, Legends and Lore While women's history has often been ignored or even erased over the centuries, many women have made huge impacts on society. However, historical knowledge is often imperfect or erroneously portrayed...
January 1, 2025
Wednesdays – College Behind Bars
1/22 & 1/29 @ 1:00 PM/CH Instructor: Harriet Hendel Instructor: Harriet Hendel Ken Burns documentary series. Part 3 and 4. 1/22 "Every Single Word Matters" (Part 3) 1/29 “Home Is A Work in Progress" (Part 4)...
January 1, 2025
Wednesday – Cantor’s Class
1/15 & 1/29 @ 2:15 PM/CH Hosted by: Cantor Jana Schachter 1/15-Cantor’s Class-This week, we will begin to read the Book of Exodus in synagogue. In preparation, we will learn about the life of Moses’s sister, Miriam and his wife, Zipporah. 1/29-Cantor’s Class-In this class we will learn...
January 1, 2025