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LSJCC, Wednesdays A full day program is available to members on Wednesdays. Membership includes discounts to all senior adult programs and Travel club events. Each week offers a variety of activities including lectures, fitness, discussion groups, entertainment and more. Typical courses include current events, Jewish history, play reading, nutrition, Yiddish, Art, choral group and more. To reserve a Kosher lunch on Wednesdays, please call 617-558-6596 by 12pm the Monday before the Wednesday program. There is a $3 suggested donation for lunch and full day program. If you are a Brookline or Brighton resident, transportation is available on Wednesdays. For transportation reservations, please call 617-558-6484. Full day programs planned from September 12, 2012 to June 12, 2013. Summer semester program begins on June 19, 2012 and is limited to the use of all indoor PE facilities.
LSJCC, Wednesdays
A full day program is available to members on Wednesdays. Membership includes discounts to all senior adult programs and Travel club events. Each week offers a variety of activities including lectures, fitness, discussion groups, entertainment and more. Typical courses include current events, Jewish history, play reading, nutrition, Yiddish, Art, choral group and more. To reserve a Kosher lunch on Wednesdays, please call 617-558-6596 by 12pm the Monday before the Wednesday program. There is a $3 suggested donation for lunch and full day program. If you are a Brookline or Brighton resident, transportation is available on Wednesdays. For transportation reservations, please call 617-558-6484. Full day programs planned from September 12, 2012 to June 12, 2013. Summer semester program begins on June 19, 2012 and is limited to the use of all indoor PE facilities.
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Wednesdays A full day program is available to members on Wednesdays. Membership includes discounts to all senior adult programs and travel club events. Each week offers a variety of activities including lectures, fitness, discussion groups, entertainment and more. Typical courses include current events, Jewish history, play reading, nutrition, Yiddish, art, choral group and more. To reserve a kosher lunch on Wednesdays, please call 617-558-6596 (10-11am) the Friday before the Wednesday program. There is a $3 suggested donation for lunch and full day program. If you are a Brookline or Brighton resident, transportation is available on Wednesdays. For transportation reservations, please call 617-558-6596. Begins Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10am-3pm
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Wednesdays
A full day program is available to members on Wednesdays. Membership includes discounts to all senior adult programs and travel club events. Each week offers a variety of activities including lectures, fitness, discussion groups, entertainment and more. Typical courses include current events, Jewish history, play reading, nutrition, Yiddish, art, choral group and more. To reserve a kosher lunch on Wednesdays, please call 617-558-6596 (10-11am) the Friday before the Wednesday program. There is a $3 suggested donation for lunch and full day program. If you are a Brookline or Brighton resident, transportation is available on Wednesdays. For transportation reservations, please call 617-558-6596. Begins Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10am-3pm
LSJCC, Start Date: 04/10/2013, End Date: 06/12/2013, Time: 10:00 AM-3:00 PM A full day program is available to members on Wednesdays. Membership includes discounts to all senior adult programs and Travel club events. Each week offers a variety of activities including lectures, fitness, discussion groups, entertainment and more. Typical courses include current events, Jewish history, play reading, nutrition, Yiddish, Art, choral group and more. To reserve a Kosher lunch on Wednesdays, please call 617-558-6596 (10-11am) the Friday before the Wednesday program. There is a $3 suggested donation for lunch and full day program. If you are a Brookline or Brighton resident, transportation is available on Wednesdays. For transportation reservations, please call 617-558-6596. Begins Wednesday, April 10 10am-3pm
LSJCC, Start Date: 04/10/2013, End Date: 06/12/2013, Time: 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
A full day program is available to members on Wednesdays. Membership includes discounts to all senior adult programs and Travel club events. Each week offers a variety of activities including lectures, fitness, discussion groups, entertainment and more. Typical courses include current events, Jewish history, play reading, nutrition, Yiddish, Art, choral group and more. To reserve a Kosher lunch on Wednesdays, please call 617-558-6596 (10-11am) the Friday before the Wednesday program. There is a $3 suggested donation for lunch and full day program. If you are a Brookline or Brighton resident, transportation is available on Wednesdays. For transportation reservations, please call 617-558-6596. Begins Wednesday, April 10 10am-3pm
Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Thursday, June 6 (7:30pm) Around the world and across the generations, Jews see themselves, present themselves, and are seen by others in new ways. Leading the discusion on this provocative topic will be: James Carroll, a distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University, holder of the 2011 Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair at Emory University, and a columnist for the Boston Globe. He is an award-winning author of ten novels and six works of non-fiction, including Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World. Carroll is a recent recipient of the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Commentary. Abigail Pogrebin, a Yale graduate and author of Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish. She has served as a producer for CBS News’ 60 Minutes. She has also written for New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, and Harper’s Bazaar. Margot Stern Strom is the Executive Director of Facing History and Ourselves, an organization that combats racism, anti-Semitism and prejudice and promotes democracy through education programs worldwide. She has enabled millions of students to study the Holocaust, to investigate root causes of racism, anti-Semitism and violence, and to realize their obligations and capabilities as citizens in a democracy. She has taught social studies at the Runkle School in Brookline and has studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations is conceived and produced in collaboration with Leonard Fein, who will moderate the 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. Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations is a program of the Ryna Greenbaum JCC Center for the Arts. Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations is underwritten by The Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation with additional donor support from Carolynn H. Levy and Alan Sharaf.
Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Thursday, June 6 (7:30pm)
Young Israel of Brookline, Thursday, June 27 (2-4pm) How can the two largest Jewish communities - Israel and North America - better leverage resources, collaborate and work together to champion this historic blessing we share. Discussion with Rabbi Dr. Gershon Gewirtz (Young Israel of Brookline), Rabbi William Hamilton (Congregation Kehillath Israel) and Rabbi Sonia Saltzman (Temple Ohabei Shalom). Moderated by Barry Shrage, President of Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Kosher refreshments will be served. To register, contact 617-558-6443 or seniors@jccgb.org
Young Israel of Brookline, Thursday, June 27 (2-4pm)
How can the two largest Jewish communities - Israel and North America - better leverage resources, collaborate and work together to champion this historic blessing we share. Discussion with Rabbi Dr. Gershon Gewirtz (Young Israel of Brookline), Rabbi William Hamilton (Congregation Kehillath Israel) and Rabbi Sonia Saltzman (Temple Ohabei Shalom). Moderated by Barry Shrage, President of Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Kosher refreshments will be served. To register, contact 617-558-6443 or seniors@jccgb.org
Berkshires / Western Mass., Sunday-Wednesday, July 7-10, 2013 Join the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center on a three-night trip to the Berkshires from Sunday-Wednesday, July 7-10. Take in a Boston Pops concert at Tanglewood (Keith Lockhart with special guest Vince Gill), the New York City Ballet at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, a Berkshire Theatre performance of Oklahama and visit the Norman Rockwell Museum, The Mount and The Frelinghuysen House. Cost for the trip is $750. Nine meals, three nights stay at Holiday Inn Express in Great Barrington, tickets to all shows and air-conditioned coach included. The trip is open to the entire community. For details, contact 617-558-6448 or travel@jccgb.org.
Berkshires / Western Mass., Sunday-Wednesday, July 7-10, 2013
Join the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center on a three-night trip to the Berkshires from Sunday-Wednesday, July 7-10. Take in a Boston Pops concert at Tanglewood (Keith Lockhart with special guest Vince Gill), the New York City Ballet at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, a Berkshire Theatre performance of Oklahama and visit the Norman Rockwell Museum, The Mount and The Frelinghuysen House. Cost for the trip is $750. Nine meals, three nights stay at Holiday Inn Express in Great Barrington, tickets to all shows and air-conditioned coach included. The trip is open to the entire community. For details, contact 617-558-6448 or travel@jccgb.org.
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Thursday, October 3 (9am-10pm) The Leventhal-Sidman JCC will celebrate its 30th anniversary with an all-day, community-wide celebration. Details to follow.
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Thursday, October 3 (9am-10pm)
The Leventhal-Sidman JCC will celebrate its 30th anniversary with an all-day, community-wide celebration. Details to follow.
Soccer, tennis, Pilates, painting, bridge, PJ Library events and more. Summer classes for children and adults begin June 23. Search the JCC's new, interactive program guide.
Tennis lessons, camps and classes all summer with USPTA tennis pro and JCC tennis director Doug Maynard. For details, contact 617-558-6453 or sports@jccgb.org.