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March 2019
Comedy Night
Morristown Jewish Center Beit Yisrael, 7:30 p.m. Featuring stand-up comic Robin Fox. Cost is $40 in advance, $45 at the door; purchase tickets at mjcby.org.
Find out more »Harmony Coffeehouse
Come join us for a fun filled afternoon of live music and help support the local arts community. We will have various local musicians of all genres performing. Refreshments will be available. All proceeds will go to Asbury Park Music Foundation and Axelrod Performing Arts Center.
Find out more »Concert: Simply Tsfat
Chai Center Chabad of Millburn/Short Hills, 1 Jefferson Rd., Short Hills, 7 p.m. Cost is $10 in advance, $20 at the door. Go to chaicenterchabad.org/event/concert.
Find out more »Artist-in-residence, Cantor Lisa Levine
Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, South Orange. Levine — a worship, ritual, recording, and performing artist; songwriter; and yoga prayer facilitator — will participate in Friday night services at 6; on Saturday at 7 p.m., she will present a free concert and lecture about the music of the Jews of Cuba. Register for the March 9 program at tsti.org/calendar/artist-in-residence.
Find out more »‘Willy Wonka’
Willy Wonka, JR. will be performed by St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and Temple Emanu-El Partnership Youth Theater Actors Saturday-Sunday, March 9-10. The performance will be held at the church in Metuchen on Saturday, March 9, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 10, at 3 p.m. Doors open 30 minutes early. Tickets are $5 at the door. Call 732-549-4442.
Find out more »Cantorial Concert
Temple Sholom, Cedar Grove, 4 p.m. New Jersey Cantor Concert Ensemble performs benefit concert. Cost is $10. Call 973-239-1321.
Find out more »The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook: an Evening of Songs & Stories
This fun and profoundly poignant show celebrates the iconic songs and career of Simon & Garfunkel, as well as their contribution to American Pop Culture in the 1960s and beyond. Unquestionably, the music speaks for itself, presented here in beautiful fashion by the renowned Aztec Two-Step Rex Fowler & Friends; but so does the story line of the Songbook show, which was originally created by the late great Pete Fornatale, a renowned pioneer of progressive FM radio, rock historian and…
Find out more »Broadway to Bimah
Makhelat Hamercaz, the Jewish Choir of Central New Jersey, will perform “From Broadway to Bimah,” a benefit concert for the Highland Park Community Center featuring music by Leonard Bernstein, Marvin Hamlisch, and many others on Sunday, March 17, at 3 p.m. at the center. Donations of canned and unopened boxed foods for the food pantry will be accepted as well as funds for the Senior/Youth Center. Call 732-819-0052.
Find out more »Joel Chasnoff to perform at Suburban Torah Center’s Annual dinner
Comedian and author Joel Chasnoff will be performing at the Suburban Torah Center's annual dinner on March 17th at the Crystal Plaza at 6:30pm. Joel has performed more than 1000 shows for Jewish organizations in 10 countries. His best-selling memoir about his service in the Israeli Army is called The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Boy from Chicago Fights Hezbollah. He has performed his one man show about the quirks and nuances of everything Israel - from kosher combat…
Find out more »Comedy night
Freehold Jewish Center will hold a Comedy Night starring Robin Fox at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30. The program will also include a gift auction, BYOB kosher wine, and desserts. Cost is $25 prepaid, $30 at the door. RSVP by March 8 to 732-462-0254 or online at freeholdjc.org.
Find out more »Jewish music
“The Chosen Songs: Celebrating Jewish Music” will be performed by singer and pianist Avi Wisnia at JCC of Middlesex County, Edison, on Tuesday, March 19, at 1:15 p.m. Hamentaschen will be served. Cost is $11, $8 members. Call 732-593-5958.
Find out more »Kids’ Concerts n’ Cookies
Village Apartments, South Orange, 4 p.m. Area seniors are welcome to join residents for a pre-Purim program with students from the Bayt Yeladim Jewish Learning Center in Livingston. RSVP to 973-763-0999.
Find out more »Saturday night concerts
In a move to attract new audiences to live orchestral music, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra has expanded its concert offerings to include Saturday night (8 p.m.) performances at Richardson Auditorium. The Orchestra offers a new Pick 3+ promotion, in which anyone ordering tickets for three or more concerts receives savings off full-price single tickets. All concerts feature a pre-concert talk, free to ticket holders. On Saturday, March 23, Dvořák/Liebermann/Mazzolli features former PSO principal flutist Chelsea Knox as a soloist performing…
Find out more »Acclaimed Jazz Musician Emmet Cohen @ TBA
On Sunday, March 24, 2:30 PM at Temple B’nai Abraham, 300 E Northfield Rd, Livingston, TBA Prime Time will present “Jews and All That Jazz” featuring Emmet Cohen, Acclaimed Jazz Pianist. Join us as Prime Time celebrates Rabbi Kulwin’s 20 years at Temple B’nai Abraham with this illustrious musical guest and special program! Much of the best loved jazz standards, such as “Body and Soul,” “How High the Moon,” “Sweet Georgia Brown”— are the work of Jewish songwriters. Is it…
Find out more »Nefesh Mountain at Temple B’nai Or
Nefesh Mountain will be performing at Temple B’nai Or, Morristown on March 29, 6:30 p.m. RSVP at templebnaior.org or call 973-539-4539
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