Schedule:

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Amir Tibon

8:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall

Moderated by Oded Kraus, Katz JCC Executive Director

Amir Tibon, Haaretz's award-winning correspondent, shares the gripping story of his family's October 7, 2023 rescue from Kibbutz Nahal Oz by his father, a tale revealing the tensions behind Hamas's attacks, featured on 60 Minutes and optioned for film by Fauda creators Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz.

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Community-Wide Kristallnacht Observance

11:00 am • Lahn Social Hall

Held in partnership with Raab/Goodwin Esther Raab Holocaust Museum & Goodwin Education Center
A Conversation with Paula S. Apsell, Executive Producer
and Co-Director of Resistance: They Fought Back.

Lawrence P. Levitt and
Stephanie Smartschan

1:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall

Before World War II, there were 200 Jewish children in Humenné, Czechoslovakia, but only six survived, including Evitchka, whose survival was a testament to her parents' resilience, a brave Catholic couple's courage, and a story spanning continents and decades, culminating in the unlikely opportunity to repay an unpayable debt.

Monday, November 11, 2024

Robin Judd

10:00 am • Lahn Social Hall

Historian Robin Judd examines the marriages of Jewish Holocaust survivors to Allied soldiers, exploring their journey from courtship to immigration and the impact on officials, blending romance, survivor's guilt, and the challenges of rebuilding their lives.

Steven Ujifusa

1:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall

Between 1890 and 1921, 2.5 million Jews fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe, many from Hamburg, were able to migrate to the United States thanks to the efforts of businessmen Jacob Schiff, Albert Ballin, and J.P. Morgan, with descendants including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Estée Lauder, George Gershwin, and the author's great grandparents.

Larry Tye with Music by Gary Negbaur

7:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall

The Jazzmen explores the lives of three African American bandleaders, their role in the civil rights movement, and the Black-Jewish alliance through their Jewish managers and bandmates, with Larry Tye interviewed by pianist Gary Negbaur, who will perform jazz, blues, and American roots music.

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Arthur Smith

10:00 am • Lahn Social Hall

Moderated by Marianne Aleardi, President/Publisher SJMAG Media

Arthur Smith, known for his innovation in unscripted television with hits like Hell’s Kitchen and American Ninja Warrior, shares his adventures, triumphs, and lessons in Reach, detailing his rapid rise to become the youngest-ever head of CBS Sports and offering anecdotes about figures like Marlon Brando, Gordon Ramsay, and Magic Johnson, highlighting the power of hard work, risk-taking, and following your dreams.

Fiction Authors Panel

1:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall
Moderated by Minna Siegel, Librarian

Shira Dicker, Lolita at Leonard’s of Great Neck and Other Stories from the Before Times

Sara Goodman Confino, Don’t Forget to Write

A Musical Play|
Freedom Song

6:30 pm • Lahn Social Hall
Dessert Reception to Follow

Sponsored by Gregg B. Wolfe in loving memory of his 21-year old son Justin Matthew Wolfe

In partnership with Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey

Freedom Song interweaves a Passover Seder with personal stories of recovery, featuring real addicts who use song, dance, and discussion to explore the fight against self-bondage, while Beit T'Shuvah provides care to those battling addiction, never turning anyone away for inability to pay.

Stan Middleman

7:30 pm • JFSNJ Board Room

Moderated by Neil Levine, CPA, Managing Partner, Marcum LLP

Equal parts memoir and business strategy guide, Seeing Around Corners tells the inspirational rags-to-riches story of entrepreneur Stan Middleman and shares his principles for achieving business success. Follow Stan's journey from humble beginnings in Philadelphia to building Freedom Mortgage, one of the largest privately held mortgage companies in America.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Luncheon with Emily Matchar

11:30 am • Lahn Social Hall

In conversation with Marcy Dash Friedman, owner, Dashing Designs Inc., past JCC President

In the Shadow of the Greenbrier is a poignant multigenerational Jewish family saga set against the backdrop of West Virginia's Greenbrier Resort, where four generations of the Zelner family navigate love, loyalty, and identity over the course of ten decades, as historical events shape their lives and relationships.

Daniel Schulman

7:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall

Moderated by Harvey Shapiro of Hyland Levin Shapiro, LLP

Sponsored by Townsend Press Foundation/
Judith Nadell and John Langan

The Money Kings chronicles Jewish immigrants like Joseph Seligman, the Lehmans, and Marcus Goldman, who rose from peddlers to founding major investment banks, shaping America's financial power amid Gilded Age antisemitism and global upheaval

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Talia Carner

10:00 am • Lahn Social Hall

From the acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of love, loss, and courage, spanning from postwar France, where Israeli agents rescued hidden Jewish orphans, to the daring 1969 escape of the Israeli boats of Cherbourg.

Robert Steinfeld

1:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall

Moderated by Seth Friedman

Emmy Award-winning producer Robert Steinfeld shares his journey in sports television, producing events like the Olympics and World Cup, and working with stars like Cal Ripken and announcers Bob Costas and Jim Nantz.

Noah Rinsky

7:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall

Moderated by Art Abramowitz & Art Simons

This humorous and stylish guide celebrates Old Jewish Men (OJMs), offering tips on how to eat, dress, schmooze, and embrace the OJM lifestyle, with insights into deli culture, jargon, and archetypes, making it a perfect gift for fans of classic Jewish humor—whether or not you're old, Jewish, or a man.

Friday, November 15, 2024

Heather Dune Macadam

10:00 am • Lahn Social Hall

Star-Crossed is an epic WWII love story by the award-winning author of 999, blending historical drama with a tribute to Paris and its people, as it follows the doomed romance between a Catholic Resistance fighter and a Holocaust victim whose love is torn apart by war, prejudice, and family disapproval.

Film: 999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust

11:30 am • Lahn Social Hall

999 uncovers the hidden story of 999 young Jewish women falsely registered for government service, only to be sent to Auschwitz as part of the First Official Jewish Transport, with survivors like Edith Grosman revealing their harrowing experiences in this overlooked chapter of women's history, now explored in a documentary based on the international bestseller

David & Susan Schwartz

2:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall

Snacks provided by Costco Wholesale in Cherry Hill

Join the Schwartz’s on a whimsical A to Z journey through over 225 Costco warehouses worldwide, offering behind-the-scenes insights and product samplings, all while celebrating their love for Costco from one of NYC's smallest apartments.

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Comedian|Taylor Williamson

8:00 pm • Lahn Social Hall

Taylor Williamson, a proudly Jewish comedian and America’s Got Talent runner-up, has headlined globally, performed for US troops, and hosted events for Jewish organizations, with his latest standup special streaming on YouTube.

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Champagne Brunch with Eddie Shapiro and Rita Neidich

10:00 am • Lahn Social Hall

In Here's to the Ladies, journalist Eddie Shapiro offers intimate conversations with Broadway's greatest female performers, exploring their careers in-depth, while brunch features Rita Neidich’s one-woman cabaret Far from Our Home, highlighting Jewish heroines in musical theater and Neidich’s own journey as a Ukrainian Jewish refugee.

Date: November 2-17, 2024

Location:  Katz JCC-1301 Springdale Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

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