Event
Tuesdays – Travel & Photography
6/11 & 6/25 @ 2:30 PM/CH Instructor: Pat Worley 6/11 Baltic Sea: We will visit Stockholm, Sweden, Helsinki, Finland, St. Petersburg, Russia and Tallinn, Estonia on our quick trip around the Baltic Sea. Each city is rich in history, culture, and diverse landscapes. We will talk...
May 30, 2024
Wednesdays – America/Britain/France after Napoleon
6/19 & 6/26 @ 11:00 AM/CH Instructor: Steve Pollack What were the driving forces behind politics, culture, and war during the time of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, George III and Post Napoleonic France. How did they shape the emerging United States, and now did themes of labor, socialism...
May 30, 2024
Wednesdays – The Early History of Jewish America from The Revolution Through the Civil War
6/5 & 6/19 @ 1:00 PM/CH Presented by Herb Kaufman Around 1607, the first colonists began to arrive in America. Some came to avoid religious persecution, some to enhance their economic livelihood, and some to explore what the new colonies had to offer. From the very beginning,...
May 30, 2024
Wednesdays – Beginners Hebrew Class
6/19 & 6/26 @ 2:15 PM/CH 6/19: Beginner’s Hebrew: In this class, we will learning the final letters of the Hebrew alphabet. 6/26 Beginner’s Hebrew: In this class, we will review the letters of the Hebrew alphabet....
May 30, 2024
Thursday – Ethics in Modern Life
6/6 & 6/27 @ 11:00 AM/MR Hosted by: Sarah Rosenson In each of these sessions we will discuss a different ethical issue that has strong arguments on both sides. Our issues will be drawn from a wide range of sources and will cover a wide variety of...
May 30, 2024
Thursdays – Music of the Great Film Franchises
6/20@ 2:00 PM/CH Instructor: Ira Miller John Williams and the Music of Star Wars - By the time John Williams met for lunch with George Lucas, Williams was already a well-established composer of music for film based on his work with Steven Spielberg on the Oscar winning...
May 30, 2024
Thursdays – Famous Jewish Personalities in Politics, Science, Music and Art
6/6 @ 3:15 ,6/20 & 6/27 @ 3:00 PM/ CH Instructor: Stuart Liss 6/6 Montgomery Clift: Sensitive, mysterious, brooding, and suspiciously single. These are just among the many words which have been used to describe Montgomery Clift, the enigmatic heartthrob of the 1950s. He was one of Hollywood’s most...
May 30, 2024
Thursdays – Best of Broadway
6/6, 6/13, & 6/27 @ 7:30 PM/ CH Hosted by: Leila Joffe In this course we will cover Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. They were one of the most successful teams in musical theater. We will learn about the beginning of their careers and what led them to...
May 30, 2024
Fridays – The Sphinx That Moved to Philadelphia
6/14 & 6/21@ 11:00 AM/CH Instructor: Stephen “Dr. Steve” Phillips, Ph.D. June 12, 2019, is a date that will live forever in the history of the renowned 130-year-old Penn Museum. On that day, for the first time in nearly a century, the museum’s iconic, 12.5 ton (!)...
May 30, 2024
