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Purim Community Festival!!
Sunday, March 4, 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
This annual community celebration will include entertainment, large carnival, Café Shushan, Bouncy Bounce, holiday crafts, and more!
Co-sponsored by the Religious Schools and Midrasha of the four area Synagogues and the JCC.
Download the Purim Flyer
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Exhibits
The Mask Exhibit
Artistic interpretations of masks for a new exhibit, The Mask, in conjunction with the Purim holiday, is open to artists. The artwork can take any form, style, and size. All media are acceptable including paintings, ceramics, paper-cut, fiber art, sculpture, mixed media and more. The exhibit will be held March through April 2012 in the Farber/Miness Gallery. An invitation form to participate in the exhibit is on the website and at the JCC.
For more information and questions please contact Irit agnes iritm@schenectadyjcc.org or 377-8803.
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Finkle Family Display Case
An exhibit of local authors’ children’s books is on display for the months of January and February. Authors in the display include Kyra Teis, Linda Marshall, Stephanie Lisa Tara and Tao Nyeu, originally from Niskayuna, Mark Teague from Coxsackie, and Elizabeth Zunon from Albany.
This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Open Door Bookstore.
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Music at the J
Leonata Trio
Music to Enjoy, Moments to Remember
Sunday, March 11, 3 PM
Leonata string ensemble is a family trio. Leo Milman plays first
violin, his wife Natalya is second violin, and their daughter Marina
plays the cello. Leo Milman was assistant concertmaster of the
Minsk Chamber Orchestra and traveled around Europe performing
with the orchestra. He is the string teacher at Canajoharie Central
School. The trio’s program will include music by Gershwin,
Rubenstein, and Milman’s own arrangements of beloved Israeli
tunes. The musicians will also perform a variety of classical songs,
including compositions by Corelli, Handel, and Mozart.
Cost: $10 Member, $11 Non-Member, $5 Student. Entire Series: $30 Member, $35 Non-Member. Refreshments included.
Download the 2011 -2012 Brochure
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Jewish Film Festival
The Matchmaker
Saturday, February 11, 7:30 PM
In 1968 Haifa, Arik, a teenage boy, gets a summer job working with Yankele, a Holocaust survivor who makes ends meet by brokering marriages. As Arik learns about the human heart, he too, falls in love. A coming of age story.
Israel, 2010, Hebrew with English subtitles
Discussion led by Janie Garnett
Co-sponsored by Hadassah Capital District
Inside Hana's Suitcase
Sunday, February 26, 6:00 PM
Optional pizza & salad dinner at 5:00 PM
Your check of $6 above ticket price is your dinner reservation
Please send checks to the JCC
2565 Balltown Road
Niskayuna, NY 12309
Canada, 2011, 60 min. version; a family- friendly program. Students are welcome.
The delivery of a battered suitcase to Fumiko Ishioka at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum begins this true-life mystery. The suitcase came from the Auschwitz Museum and has Hana Brady's name painted on it. The film follows Fumiko's search to discover the details of Hana's life. The voices of children from Japan, Canada, and the Czech Republic telling Hana's story are woven around the drama, creating a film of power and hope.
Mindy Holland will lead a discussion.
Co-sponsored by the Sisterhood of Congregation Gates of Heaven
Cost for film only: $7 Member, $8 Non-Member, $3 Student.
Grace Paley: Collected Shorts
Saturday, March 17, 7:30 PM
US, 2010, 75 min. Dir. Lilly Rivlin
Literary icon Grace Paley was a master of the short story who wrote with vigor, joy, and humor, establishing her reputation with Little Disturbances of Man, an intimate chronicle of Jewish-American urban women. She was also a lifelong political activist with a passion for social justice and peace, a legendary teacher with a wide network of devoted family and friends. Paley became Poet Laureate of Vermont and State Author of New York. This new documentary is an exhilarating testament to a rare kind of joyous, tireless idealism.
Discussion led by Paul Elisha, WAMC North-East Public Radio
Download 2011-2012 Series Brochure (pdf )
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Jewish Video Library
Check our new videos and DVDs and ask for the current catalogue.
or download the online copy Rental: $2 for a video for a week. $20 deposit for Non-Members.
For more information, Please contact Irit Magnes at 377-8803
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