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October 2018
Inside the Mission to Capture Adolf Eichmann with Avner Avraham
An interactive conversation with AVNER AVRAHAM , Former Mossad Agent ,Consultant for the Major Motion Picture "Operation Finale" and Curator on the international exhibit, "Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann" Inaugural Appearance in New Jersey..... Avner's recent interviews - BBC News, Fox5NY, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, NY Times, I24News, CBN News, Tampa Bay Times and more....
Find out more »A Conversation with Avner Avraham: Inside the Mission to Capture Adolf Eichmann
Congregation Agudath Israel, Caldwell, 8 p.m. Avraham is a former Mossad agent and chief consultant for the motion picture “Operation Finale.” Cost is $10, $5 members. Register at agudath.org/event/A_Conversation_with_Avner_Avraham.html.
Find out more »Raid on Entebbe – From One of the Commandos
Chabad Center of Northwest NJ, Rockaway, 8:30 p.m. Guest speaker is Sasson “Sassy” Reuven, a former IDF paratrooper who participated in the rescue mission at Entebbe. Dessert, coffee, and tea will be served. Admission is $18. RSVP to 973-625-1525, ext. 202, or visit onetorahway.org/coffeehouse.
Find out more »Immigration in America How it Impacts Us Nationally and Locally
Matt Katz currently reports on air at WNYC, the NY area public radio station, about immigration, refugees and national security. Formerly, he covered New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie through scandal and presidential candidacy for The Philadelphia Inquirer and then for WNYC, for which he and his WNYC team won a Peabody Award. Matt has written about politics for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic and POLITICO and has also authored a biography of Christie which was…
Find out more »Alon Gal Live
For the first time in the United States, Alon Gal, "The israeli Tony Robbins", our Israeli National Coach, will hold a one-time coaching workshop in New York City! Looking for a door to your inner-self? Interested in getting your business to different places? Want to find happiness and satisfaction that are independent of anything external, stop being run scared, create a relationship or improve existing, improve the financial / business situation? design and build a better future?? If you are…
Find out more »Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Kroloff
Informal and lively! Discussion topics will include contemporary events, films of Jewish and general interest, spiritual issues, aging wisely, family concerns, the rabbi’s “struggles,” Israel, the American Jewish community, and recent developments in Jewish life. Join us on October 15 as we discuss, “What is the Future for Non-Orthodox Jews in America?” A delicious complimentary lunch will be offered. Donations to support this program are welcome. Kindly direct them to the Rabbi Charles A. Kroloff Fund for Jewish Learning. Please…
Find out more »Nice Jewish composer
“Stephen Schwartz: Got to Find My Corner of the Sky” will be presented by John Kenrick on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 1:30 p.m. at JCC of Middlesex County, Edison. Cost is $11, $8 JCC members. Call 732-593-5958.
Find out more »“Stolpersteine” Project
Part of “Current Concerns in Our World” series at Congregation Ohr Shalom, Summit, 9:30 a.m. Guest speaker is Austrian-born Doris Schneider, who will discuss her family’s escape to England after the Anschluss and her experiences returning to Austria and participating in the “Stolpersteine” project, the marking of certain buildings where victims of the Nazis lived. Followed by 10:30 class with Rabbi Avi Friedman, “Issues in Contemporary Judaism.” The series costs $60, $15 for each class. Call 908-273-8130.
Find out more »Ruth Gruber’s story
Dr. Marcia Midler will present “Ruth Gruber: Globe-Trotting Journalist and Witness/Chronicler of 20th-Century Jewish History,” an American Jewish Experience Lecture Series program sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey, on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 10:30 a.m. at Highland Park Conservative Temple-Congregation Anshe Emeth. A $2 donation is requested at the door. Contact 732-249-4894 or INFO.JHSCJ@gmail.com.
Find out more »Jews and an Afterlife
Adult Forum of Congregation B’nai Israel, Millburn, 12:30 p.m. Discussion with Rabbi Steven Bayar. Cost is $12, $10 Adult Forum members. RSVP to Lois at 973-533-1809 with lunch order.
Find out more »Beth El Synagogue Seniors – Is it Possible to Change Patterns?
On Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 1:00 pm, the Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor Seniors present ‘A New Year, A New World, A Better World, A Humane World – Is it Possible to Change Patterns?’ Rabbi Jay Kornsgold will paint a picture of our world today - as it seems to us and how it has changed since this century began. He will create a picture of how these changes have presented us with problems that have us confused or angry…
Find out more »New year, new world
Rabbi Jay Kornsgold will present “A New Year, A New World, A Better World, A Humane World — Is it Possible to Change Patterns?” on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 1 p.m. at a seniors program at Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP by Oct. 15 to 609-443-4454.
Find out more »Speaker Series Launch
Temple Sha’arey Shalom, Springfield, 8 p.m. Shabbat services. Dr. Karen Gaffney, Professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College and author of “Dismantling the Racism Machine,” will trace the history of race relations in America and provide action steps for combating racism. Call 973-379-5387.
Find out more »Jewish Pulitzer novelists
Congregation B’nai Israel, Rumson, is celebrating Jewish Pulitzer Prize novelists — Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow — in a series of free Sunday seminars. Kicking off the series on Oct. 21 will be Prof. Andrew Meyer on Malamud at 11:15 a.m. On Nov. 11, Jack Needle, a retired Brookdale Community College history professor, will discuss the life and works of Roth. Rabbi Dov Goldberg will give a Friday night Nov. 30 sermon on Roth’s short novel…
Find out more »Upcoming Midterm Elections
Renaissance Group at Temple B’nai Or, Morristown, 12:30 p.m. Guest speaker is Ashley Koning, director of Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University. Lunch will be provided. Cost is $20, $15 Renaissance members. RSVP to Mitzi Szerlip at 973-839-1939.
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