4/16 & 4/23 @ 1:00 PM/CH Instructor Harriet Hendel We will start a new theme: FRAMED: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey. This book, published in October 2024, has 10 actual cases. I will present one case during each session from April September....
4/2 & 4/30 @ 2:15 PM/CH Hosted by: Cantor Jana Schachter 4/2 In this class, in honor of Passover, we will be learning “The Story of Charoset” 4/30 In honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, we will be exploring the Israeli Declaration of Independence....
4/23 @ 2:15 PM /MR Instructor: Cantor Jana Schachter In this class we will learn about the Amish....
4/3 & 4/17@ 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 topics...
4/3 @ 1:30 PM/CH Instructor Trish Chambers This presentation is the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of our country. It highlights the life of a brilliant immigrant and self-made man. The story is a timeline that traces his life from its meager beginnings...
4/10 & 4/24 @ 11:00 AM/MR Hosted by: Barbara Anderson In April we will finish up “The History of San Francisco” and reprise New York, New York, It’s a Wonderful Town.” It’s a miss-mash of history, memoir and of course, the Jewish Connection. Bring your memories of life in...
4/10 & 4/24 @ 2:00 PM/CH Instructor: Ira Miller This period encompasses an era of music that is normally referred to as Western Classical Music, which ran from roughly between 1650 to 1680, continuing to between 1890 and 1930. 4/10 We will begin with why Western Europe would...
4/3 @ 3:15 PM/ CH 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24 @ 3:00 PM/ CH Instructor: Stuart Liss 4/3 Facts about famous scientists These days the world's most innovative scientists don't really get as much attention as, say, the Kardashians. But maybe they should. Because real, profound geniuses often come hand-in-hand...
4/3, 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24 @ 7:30 PM/CH Hosted by: Leila Joffe In this course, we will explore the remarkable contributions of great women in theater and film. We will examine the talent and legacy of such iconic artists as Katharine Hepburn, Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Patti...
4/11 & 4/18 @ 11:00 AM/CH Instructor: Stephen “Dr. Steve” Phillips, Ph.D. Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-ray technology in 1895 – did you know that Egyptian mummies were among the very first things ever x-rayed, and that the first publication of a radiograph was by an Egyptologist? This lecture...