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Performances and Lectures

Ryna Greenbaum

JCC Center for the Arts

The JCC Performance and Lecture Series brings provacative topics together with distinguished performers, scholars, artists, writers and activists to explore Jewish culture and questions of identity in the 21st century.

Upcoming Programs

All events held at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC (333 Nahanton Street, Newton) unless otherwise noted.

Circumcise Me - A New Comedy on the Cutting Edge

Written and performed by Yisreal Campbell. Directed by Sam Gold.

  • Date

    Saturday, March 17 (8:15pm)

  • Location

    Leventhal-Sidman JCC

    333 Nahanton Street, Newton, MA 02459

    Contact Phone Number: 617-965-5226

  • Age Groups

    Adult

  • Cost

    JCC member, students, seniors: $23 Nonmember: $26

Description

He's just your average Irish, Italian Catholic kid from Philly, comic actor, sober alcoholic, recovering drug addict, husband, father, Reform, Conservative, unorthodox, Orthodox Jew. His name is Yisrael Campbell, (the artist formerly known as Christopher), and this is his story.

Circumcise Me is a spiritual journey stretching across four decades, two continents, and three circumcisions. It's that rare collision of comedy and theater that will have women howling with laughter, men squirming in their seats, and everyone standing up to cheer. Poignant, provocative, and powerfully witty, Circumcise Me is the true –and truly unforgettable – story of a man who was born to be funny. The Jewish part came later.
Talk-back after the show with performer.

JCC member, students and seniors: $23; Nonmember: $26

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Circumcise Me - A New Comedy on the Cutting Edge

Written and performed by Yisrael Campbell. Directed by Sam Gold.

  • Date

    Sunday, March 18 (2pm)

  • Location

    Leventhal-Sidman JCC

    333 Nahanton Street, Newton, MA 02459

    Contact Phone Number: 617-965-5226

  • Age Groups

    Adult

  • Cost

    JCC member, students and seniors: $23; Nonmember: $26

Description

He's just your average Irish, Italian Catholic kid from Philly, comic actor, sober alcoholic, recovering drug addict, husband, father, Reform, Conservative, unorthodox, Orthodox Jew. His name is Yisrael Campbell, (the artist formerly known as Christopher), and this is his story.

Circumcise Me is a spiritual journey stretching across four decades, two continents, and three circumcisions. It's that rare collision of comedy and theater that will have women howling with laughter, men squirming in their seats, and everyone standing up to cheer. Poignant, provocative, and powerfully witty, Circumcise Me is the true –and truly unforgettable – story of a man who was born to be funny. The Jewish part came later.
Talk-back after the show with performer.

JCC member, students and seniors: $23; Nonmember: $26

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The States of Jewish Belief

Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations lecture series, with Art Green, Allan Nadler and Avi Shafran. Moderated by Leonard Fein.

  • Date

    Thursday, March 29 (7:30pm)

  • Location

    Leventhal-Sidman JCC

    333 Nahanton Street, Newton, MA 02459

    Contact Phone Number: 617-965-5226

  • Age Groups

    Adult

  • Cost

    JCC member, students and seniors: $12; Nonmember: $15

Description

Jewish beliefs—from the most fervently Orthodox to the determinedly secular—are magnificently inconsistent. Is there a core Jewish belief system? If so, who create it, and who is responsible for maintaining it? And how does the system attach to individual Jewish identity construction and observance?
Art Green, Rector of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, is recognized as one of the world’s preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality. His most recent book is Radical Judaism, published in 2010 by Yale University Press.
Allan Nadler, Director of the Drew University Jewish Studies Program, has served as rabbi of Canada’s largest and oldest traditional synagogue, Shaar Hashomayim and of Boston’s Charles River Park Synagogue. He is widely recognized for his critical analysis of Hasidic Judaism. He is currently completing a book on heresy in traditional Jewish theology.
Avi Shafran is Agudath Israel of America’s Director of Public Affairs and editor-at-large of Ami Magazine, a weekly publication serving the Orthodox Jewish community. He has written widely for the Jewish and general press and is the author of several books including Migrant Soul, the true story of a mixed-race convert to Judaism.
Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations is conceived and produced in collaboration with Leonard Fein (pictured), who will moderate each forum. The founding editor of Moment Magazine and Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger, Fein’s 900+ essays, articles and columns have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation and The Jewish Daily Forward.

Underwritten by The Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation with additional donor support from Carolynn H. Levy and Alan Sharaf.

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From Tel Aviv to Ramallah - a Beatbox Journey

Starring Yuri Lane. Live visuals by Sharif Ezzat. Written and directed by Rachel Havrelock.

  • Date

    Saturday, April 28 (8pm)

  • Location

    Leventhal-Sidman JCC

    333 Nahanton Street, Newton, MA 02459

    Contact Phone Number: 617-965-5226

  • Age Groups

    Adult

  • Cost

    JCC member, students and seniors: $23; Nonmember: $26

Description

"Yuri Lane celebrates the subconscious soundtrack that thrums in our heads...astonishing...leaving his audience vastly entertained."
-Chicago Magazine
 
From Tel Aviv to Ramallah is a hip-hop play that tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while emphasizing the humanity, suffering and joy of Israelis and Palestinians. From Tel Aviv to Ramallah has played at theaters in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta. Talk-back discussion with artists after the show. 
 
JCC member, students and seniors: $23; Nonmember: $26

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From Tel Aviv to Ramallah - a Beatbox Journey

Starring Yuri Lane. Live visuals by Sharif Ezzat. Written and directed by Rachel Havrelock.

  • Date

    Sunday, April 29 (2pm)

  • Location

    Leventhal-Sidman JCC

    333 Nahanton Street, Newton, MA 02459

    Contact Phone Number: 617-965-5226

  • Age Groups

    Adult

  • Cost

    JCC member, students and seniors: $23; Nonmember: $26

Description

"Yuri Lane celebrates the subconscious soundtrack that thrums in our heads...astonishing...leaving his audience vastly entertained."
-Chicago Magazine
 
From Tel Aviv to Ramallah is a hip-hop play that tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while emphasizing the humanity, suffering and joy of Israelis and Palestinians. From Tel Aviv to Ramallah has played at theaters in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta. Talk-back discussion with artists after the show. 
 
JCC member, students and seniors: $23
Nonmember: $26

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Spotlight

Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations - Thought-provoking discussions with leading 21st century thinkers. With Barney Frank, Leonard Fein, Peter Beinart and others.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Circumcise Me - A New Comedy on the Cutting Edge

Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 8:15 PM

The story of a man born to be funny. The Jewish part came later.

Second performance Sunday, March 18 at 2pm.

Leventhal-Sidman JCC

Upcoming Event

The States of Jewish Belief

Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 7:30 PM

Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations

With Art Green, Allan Nadler and Avi Shafran

Leventhal-Sidman JCC

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