Celebrating our 14th year!
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Opening Event
Sunday, November 2
At the JCC
5:00 pm Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres
Advanced reservations required
$25.00 per person
Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went From Brooklyn to Hollywood with the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair
Gary David Goldberg
Join us for Martinis and more…as we welcome this Hollywood icon and the creator of Family Ties, the hit ‘80s TV show, as well as Spin City and Brooklyn Bridge.
Q: Why write a memoir?
A: It didn’t start out as a memoir. More just random notes and thoughts, and then it kind of got out of hand.
Q: How autobiographical was Family Ties?
A: Totally autobiographical in concept. (Wife) Diana and I were the parents, and our daughter Shana was as smart as Alex but could shop with Mallory.
Q: If all comedy writers come from Brooklyn, as you write, does
that mean people from Brooklyn are funnier than people from, say, Iowa?
A: There are just more people in Brooklyn. And, you never hear about the ones who aren’t funny.
Q: Why did you move to Vermont?
A: Vermont is a sweet place, like Brooklyn in the ‘50s. But without the Jews and the subway.
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Jewish Book Month in collaboration with
and Temple Emanu-El
Present Alan Dershowitz
Thursday, November 6
At Temple Emanu-El
393 Atlantic Ave, Marblehead
6:45 pm Reception with Professor Dershowitz sponsored by
Jewish Federation of the North Shore
7:30 pm Program
Advanced reservations required
Please see side bar for ticket information
In honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Ginny Dodge
The Case Against Israel’s Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace
The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Israel takes on the greatest threats faced by Israel today. Who are Israel’s most dangerous enemies? Not Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists, argues Alan Dershowitz. In this passionate and powerfully written new book, he challenges those he considers to be the most critical threat to the existence of Israel, including Jimmy Carter and other Western leaders.
At a time when the future existence of Israel is increasingly imperiled, Dershowitz persuasively demonstrates that these enemies of Israel are also enemies of peace, who jeopardize not only Israel but the rest of the world. Dershowitz is at his outspoken, thought-provoking best in a book that will spark controversy and lively discussion across the entire spectrum of opinion on the Middle East.
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz has been called “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
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Wednesday, November 12
The original “Girls Night Out”
At Kernwood Country Club
5:30 pm Cocktails and Boutiques (cash and checks only for shopping)
7:00 pm Dinner and Program
Advanced reservations required
$75.00 per person (includes valet parking, “pink drink”, and dinner) and live music
of the songs from the songwriters of
“Girls Like Us”
Girls Like Us
Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon
And the Journey of a Generation
By Sheila Weller
Sheila Weller links the lives of three very different artists to “the rich composite story of a whole generation of women born middle-class in the early to mid 1940s and coming of age in the middle to late 1960s.”
King is Weller’s “everywoman.” Coming of age in Brooklyn, inspired and influenced by black musicianship. She and her partner, then-husband Gerry Goffin, chalk up a string of successful records before she turns 21 such as “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow”.
The Canadian singer-songwriter, Joni Mitchell became for Weller “the It girl and anthropologist of her newly coined female archetype, a rusticated American version of Left Bank femininity.”
Carly Simon’s persona was that of a sexually uninhibited freethinker. She’s a jet-set star who hangs out with Mick Jagger and Jackie Onassis, marries and divorces James Taylor. Weller also assumes that the next generation’s “queens of the airwaves” (Rickie Lee Jones, Deborah Harry, Pat Benatar, Chrissie Hynde and Joan Jett) had easier journeys thanks to their female predecessors.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
At the JCC
10:30 am
Brunch
$20.00 per person
Advanced reservations required
In honor of Sara Winer’s Big Birthday
The Brass Sisters
Heirloom Cooking
Winthrop natives, Marilyn and Sheila Brass are at it again! They brought us a bounty of timeless desserts with their James Beard Award nominated Heirloom Baking. Now these acclaimed authors, and newly minted television personalities, turn their culinary skills to Heirloom Cooking. The sisters recently starred in their first television special, “The Brass Sisters: Queen of Comfort Food,” which aired on PBS, WGBH Boston.
Come and meet the Brass Sisters and enjoy a fabulous brunch with some of their heirloom recipes.
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Wednesday, November 19
Lunch at Grosvenor Park
12 Noon
$5.00 per person
Limited seating, advanced reservations required
Peter Zheutlin
Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride
It was, declared the New York World on October 20, 1895 “the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman”.
Incredibly, the woman who made it, the author’s great grand-aunt, was a Jewish mother of three small children from Boston, Annie Cohen Kopchovsky. Around the World on Two Wheels is the story of the woman who took the name “Annie Londonderry” and became the world’s first international sports celebrity.
Mr. Zheutlin, a resident of the Boston area will also present a unique multi media presentation.
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Thursday, November 20
The Sandy Sheckman Literary Event
At the JCC
7:00 pm
$10.00 per person
Robert Pinsky
The Life of David
Former three-term U.S. Poet Laureate and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston University will discuss King David as the autobiographical creation of the Jewish people. There will be special emphasis on David as a biblical figure as well as David compared with other great literary figures in history.
Professor Pinsky will also read from his poetry collections. As poet laureate, he founded the National Favorite Poem Project, which led to the publication of an Invitation to Poetry.
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