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EVENTS
Monday, April 30, 2007, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Russell Senate Caucus Room, R-325, Washington, DC
Jewish American Heritage Month Inaugural Reception And Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community, the award-winning exhibit chronicling Washington’s Jewish community
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington has taken a lead by partnering with United Jewish Communities and the JAHM coalition. Our award-winning exhibition, Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community, will be displayed at the Russell Senate Office Building from April 30 to May 4.
For more information on the educational resources, please email poster@jhsgw.org. For more information on the exhibit opening, email info@jhsgw.org, or call (202) 789-0900
Sunday, April 29, 6:30-7:45 p.m.
The Cooper Union Great Hall, 7 East 7th St., NYC
The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture:
DAVID GROSSMAN and NADINE GORDIMER
Tickets: $15/$10 PEN members
Smarttix: www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444
David Grossman is a novelist, journalist, and children’s book writer whose work examines the human soul, love, and the Holocaust, as well as the tragedies and opportunities of contemporary Israeli-Palestinian relations. In 1988, Grossman received the Har Zion Prize in recognition of his efforts to enhance peace and understanding between Arabs and Jews.
To view a complete schedule of events, visit: www.pen.org/festival or call 212-334-1660
Sunday April 29th, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m
California State University, Long Beach
Reaching Generation I-Pod: Identification and Affiliation Among Young American Jews.
Participants: Shawn Landes of Synagogue 3000; Dan Smokler, Hillel’s West Coast Assistant Director for Student Leadership; and Rabbi Yonah Bookstein, spiritual director of the Cal-State, Long Beach Hillel; Professor Leonard Saxe, Director, Steinhardt Social Research Institute, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University; Professor Linda Sax, Associate Professor in Residence, Higher Education and Associational Change, UCLA; and Nancy Schwartzman, Program Officer, National Foundation for Jewish Culture and co-founder of Heeb Magazine.
April 29 - May 10, 2007
Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival
Detroit JCC
www.djff.org
Contact: (248) 432-5461
Wednesday, May 9th at 7:30pm
Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA
$8 ($6 students/under 25)
Nextbook Performers Series: Myla Goldberg
Myla Goldberg is the author of the wildly successful novel, Bee Season. Determined not to be pigeon-holed as a writer of “domestic dramas blah-blah-blah,” she wrote the ambitious Wickett’s Remedy, a sprawling novel set in Boston during the influenza epidemic of 1918. When not making noise as a writer, Goldberg plays accordion, banjo, and flute for the band The Walking Hellos. Tickets on the web: www.nextbook.org Tickets by phone: 888-219-5222 on weekdays between 9:00am and 1:00 pm PST Additional information: Michele Yanow, 206-543-9031
Sunday, May 6, 2pm
Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL
Admission: Adults/$6; Seniors/$5; Families/$12; Members and children under 6/ Always Free; Saturdays/Free.
JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH INAUGURAL CELEBRATION
Florida’s first formal observance of Jewish American Heritage Month, co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Councils of Greater Miami Jewish Federation and Jewish Federation of Broward County. The theme is “Making America Harmonious: Jewish Contributions to the Nation’s Music.” Keynote speaker will be Dr. Stephen J. Whitfield, Max Richter Professor of American Civilization, American Studies, Brandeis University. His topic focuses on Tin Pan Alley, Broadway musicals and Hollywood movie themes.
This event is free and open to the public but RSVP is required. Please RSVP by calling 305-672-5044, ext. 11. For information: 305-672-5044 or www.jewishmuseum.com.
Monday, May 7, 7:30 pm
Washington DCJCC, 1529 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036
$10/$9 member discount
Film: The First Zionist Bunny
2005, Israel, video
75 min, Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Shiri Shahar
A handful of contestants in bikinis and high heels compete for the coveted role of the first Israeli Playboy Channel hostess. The winner, Noga Shahar, an unassuming kibbutznik and granddaughter of Zionist pioneers, is a surprising choice among the other contestants-aspiring actresses and models, a transsexual, a not-quite-18-year-old girl and a schoolteacher of Arabic.
May 13-May 15, 2007, 7:30 pm
Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center at 1529 16th Street NW in Washington, DC, 4 blocks east of Dupont Circle.
TICKETS: $50. Box Office Tickets (800) 494-TIXS or www.boxofficetickets.com.
Theater J presents the legendary Theodore Bikel in Arnold Wesker’s Shylock–A reinterpretation of The Merchant of Venice and a part of the Shakespeare in Washington festival
Contact: Rebecca Zimmerman, (202) 777-3230/rebeccaz@washingtondcjcc.org
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Thursday May 17th, 2007, 8pm
Congregation Beth Elohim
274 Garfield Place at 8th Avenue
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Buy online at www.katchor.com
Nature’s Weakness An Evening Performance in Music, Words and Pictures
Ben Katchor
Philosophical Readings Illuminated by Two-Dimensional Liquid-Crystal-Display Projections
Musical confessions by Mark Mulcahy (Voice and Guitar) accompanied by Ken Maiuri
Animated Film by Ernie Gehr
Yangquin virtuoso Xiannian Xiao
The pastoral poetic musings of Bingo Gazingo
Info: 718-768-3814 or ben@katchor.com
May 20, 7:30pm
Goodman Theater, 170 N Dearborn St,
Chicago IL 60601
$25 members/ $40 non-members by 5/2 Pay online at www.beshert.com or send a check to Beshert, P.O. Box 445, Wilmette, IL 60091
“Oedipus Complex”
We all know the story-or so we think-of a young man who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. Sophocles’ monumental treatment of this theme has been a staple of world theater for more than 2,000 years. In this bold and provocative re-telling of the myth, Goodman Artistic Associate and Tony Award- winning director and adaptor Frank Galati reimagines Sophocles’ tragedy, fusing it with the words and ideas of Sigmund Freud-the man whose revolutionary theories crossed the boundaries of science by using the art of myth, metaphor and dream to bring meaning to the ultimate human drama.
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May 20, 7:30pm
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852
$6 JCC, Yiddish of Greater Washington and Workman’s Circle/$9 gen. Pubic
The 30th Commemoration of the Yahrtseit of Sholem Aleichem with Robert Freedman, Curator of the Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive
This year, in addition to the traditional reading of the Ethical Will of Sholem Aleichem and the singing of Shlof Mayn Kind, join us for a very special program as Robert Freedman presents music and film clips of works of Sholem Aleichem as interpreted by recording artists as well as, readings, songs, stories, monologues and sketches from the Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lynn Gittleson 301-348-3840, lgittleson@jccgw.org, www.jccgw.org
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Monday, May 21, 7:30 pm
Washington DCJCC, 1529 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036
$10/$9 member discount
Short Films: Song, Dance and a Bit of Romance
Total program time: 80 min, English
Directors: Ari Sandel, Iris Bahr, Hope Dickson Leach, and Alana Cymerman
The latest collection of short films, including: Oscar winning West Bank Story , Sundance-selected The Dawn Chorus, Iris Bahr’s The Unchosen Ones: Lost in the Holy Land, and romantic-techno fantasy, When Erma Made Herman
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Tuesday, May 29, 7:30 pm
Washington DCJCC, 1529 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036$10/$9 member discount
Film: Love Iranian-American Style
2006, USA, video
63 minutes, English and Farsi with English subtitles
Director: Tanaz Eshaghian
Sexual purity, money and a mother’s worries come together in this humorous guided tour of America’s status-obsessed Iranian Jewish community. The film follows the director, Tanaz, a hip New Yorker whose LA-based family attempts to marry her off now that she’s reached the “ancient” age of 25.
For tickets and info visit: washingtondcjcc.org
NEWS
From the Detroit Free Press
Pearl Zeltzer: Volunteer was focused on the arts
April 17, 2007
By Joe Rossiter
Free Press Staff Writer
True to her name, Pearl Zeltzer was a shining example of civic pride, leadership and generosity.
The mother of four and tireless volunteer had a long history of philanthropic activity within the Detroit community and played a significant role in bringing the arts to the area.
Mrs. Zeltzer, a retired registered nurse, died of pneumonia Wednesday at Providence Hospital in Southfield. She was 81 and lived in West Bloomfield.
“Inside that petite frame of hers was a powerhouse of a woman,” her youngest son, Jeremy Zeltzer, said. “She was a feisty go-getter who was so giving of her time and commitment because she didn’t mind sharing her good fortune with others.”
Mrs. Zeltzer was active in many local social service agencies, including Meals on Wheels and the Oakland County Department of Services for the Aging.
Along with her husband, George M. (Mike) Zeltzer, she received the National Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Patron Award for their sponsoring of Jewish arts and humanities. The couple also were named fellows of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., due to their work with the Brandeis National Women’s Committee and their contributions to Jewish culture.
Born Pearl Melnick in Detroit, she graduated from Central High School in 1942. During World War II she enrolled in Grace Hospital School of Nursing in Detroit with the intent of becoming a member of the Army Nurse Corps. She graduated after the war in 1947.
A year later, she met and married her husband and began raising a family while working part-time at Detroit Osteopathic Hospital and later Sinai Hospital.
Mrs. Zeltzer was on the Board of the Michigan Opera Theatre and was a Founders Society Associate for the Detroit Institute of Arts.
“She was consistently focused on how to expand the audience for ballet and dance,” said David DiChiera, founder and general director for the Michigan Opera Theatre and the Detroit Opera House. “Her ultimate goal was to bring more people to the art form so they could learn to appreciate and celebrate its beauty.”
In addition to her husband and son, survivors include three sons, David, Gary and Elliot; a sister, and seven grandchildren.
The Zeltzers have asked that donations be made to the NFJC’s Pearl Zeltzer fund for Choroegraphy.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Barry Elad
310.591.7599
ISRAELI AUTHOR ARRIVES TO NEW YORK TO SHOWCASE HER LATEST BIBLICAL NOVEL
April, 2007 — Avid novel fans are expected to descend on various New York locations in May. That is when Eva Etzioni-Halevy will be holding talks and book signings of her new novel THE GARDEN OF RUTH (published by Plume, a Division of Penguin). Etzioni’s arrival couldn’t be more timely. That is because her novel is inspired by the Book of Ruth which is read in synagogues during the Jewish holiday of Shavuoth. Shavuoth takes place May 22-24 this year.
THE GARDEN OF RUTH follows the success of Etzioni-Halevy’s first biblical novel THE SONG OF HANNAH published in September 2005. THE GARDEN OF RUTH recently hit the bookshelves nationwide. It can also be ordered online at amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and at the author’s website: evaetzionihalevy.com.
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