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F E S T I V A L2011 EVENT SCHEDULE

Tuesday, November 1FILM: An Article of Hope 7pm

Thursday, November 3AUTHOR: Thanassis Cambanis, A Privilege To Die 7:30pm

Friday, November 4AUTHOR: Liel Leibovitz, Fortunate Sons 12pm Lunch & Learn

Sunday, November 6CHILDREN’S EVENT: Myrna Shanker, Lazar, The Good Deed Dog 10:30am Includes Art Project

ART & CULTURE: Photograpy Workshop, Maya Barkai 4pm

Monday, November 7ART & CULTURE: Chagall Art Lecture, Irene Wisoff 1pm

Thursday, November 10FILM: Jewish Soldiers Blue & Gray 7pm

Saturday, November 12MUSIC: Chazen Jazz Concert, Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket Revue 7:30pm

Sunday, November 13ART & CULTURE: Art Exhibit Opening 3pmART & CULTURE: Wine Seminar/Tasting 4pm

Monday, November 14 7:30pmAUTHORS PANEL: Israeli-Palestinian History and Conflict Jennifer Griffin & Greg Myre, This Burning Land Jerome Verlin, Israel 3000 Years

Tuesday, November 15 7:30pmAUTHORS PANEL: Mystery Thrillers Joseph Braude, Honored Dead Ron Liebman, Jersey Law Len Rosen, All Cry Chaos

Wednesday, November 16MUSIC: Charles Fox, Killing Me Softly 7:30pm

Thursday, November 17PERFORMANCE: Naomi Ackerman, Flowers Aren’t Enough 7:30pm

Saturday, November 19PERFORMANCE: Comedy Evening 7:30pm

Sunday, November 20JCC Rockland Holiday Boutique 10am-4pm FILM: Amnon’s Journey 7pmMusical performance to follow

*Beth Am Temple; *Congregation Shaarey Israel; *Congregation Sons of Israel, Nyack;

Dominican College; *Good Samaritan Hospital; *Hadassah, Lower Hudson Valley Region;

Holocaust Museum & Study Center; *Jewish Family Service;

Jewish Federation of Rockland County; *Montebello Jewish Center; *Nanuet Hebrew Center;

*New City Jewish Center; *Orangetown Jewish Center; *Reuben Gittelman Hebrew Day School; *Temple Beth El; *Temple Beth Sholom;

*Temple Beth Torah*Naomi Ackerman Event Sponsors

THANK YOU TO OUR NON-PROFIT SPONSORS

EventLocationDateTime# of Tickets AdultPrice# of Ticket

Senior/Under 18PriceTOTAL

FILM: An Article of HopeLafayette11/17pm$12$9

AUTHOR: Thanassis CambanisJCC11/37:30pm$12$9

AUTHOR: Liel LeibovitzJCC11/412pm$8$5

CHILDREN’S EVENT: Myrna ShankarJCC11/610:30am$6$4

ART & CULTURE: Photography WorkshopJCC11/64pm$8$5

ART & CULTURE: Chagall Art LectureJCC11/71pm$8$5

FILM: Jewish Soldiers Blue & GrayLafayette11/107pm$12$9

MUSIC: Jazz Concert, Paul Shapiro11/127:30pm$18$15

ART & CULTURE: Art Exhibit OpeningJCC11/133pmFREEFREE

ART & CULTURE: Wine Seminar/TastingJCC11/134pm$12$9

AUTHOR PANEL: Israeli-Palestinian HistoryJCC11/147:30pm$12$9

AUTHOR PANEL: Mystery ThrillersJCC11/157:30pm$12$9

MUSIC: Charles FoxParamount Country Club11/167:30pm$15$12

PERFORMANCE: Naomi AckermanJCC11/177:30pm$10$10

PERFORMANCE: Comedy EveningJCC11/197:30pm$15$12

FILM: Amnon’s JourneyAMC11/207pm$12$9

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Schedule and events are subject to change. For the most up to date information visit jccrockland.org.

Jennifer Griffin & Greg Myre This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian ConflictGreg Myre, former NY Times correspondent and Senior Editor for National Public Radio and his wife, Jennifer Griffin, national security correspondent for Fox News, lived in Israel for a decade covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their insightful book has been critically reviewed as “a stunning piece of non-fiction about the tortured and

heartbreaking stalemate in the Middle East.” These authors, who witnessed first hand the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the rise of Hamas, the Israeli-Hezbollah war of 2006 and the Palestinian suicide bombers, have reported on every major event in the Middle East. Their book offers new ways of perceiving this hotbed of angst from the point of view of the soldiers, politicians, settlers, farmers, doctors and laborers who live there.

AUTHORS PANEL: Israeli-Palestinian History and ConflictMonday, November 14, 7:30pmSponsored by Ilse & John Lang

AN ARTICLE OF HOPETuesday, November 1, 7pm Lafayette TheaterGuest Speaker: Joseph LennoxSponsored by Rockland Jewish Federation Reporter, Jewish Federation of Rockland County, and Town of Ramapo, Christopher P. St. Lawrence, Supervisor

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia descended towards Earth with seven astronauts on board: six Americans and Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut. AN ARTICLE OF HOPE tells the story of Ilan’s promise to a friend and colleague, a promise tied to a third story: the story of a special Torah scroll from the Holocaust that Ilan took into space. The larger meaning in the story involves universal themes: courage, leadership, promises, and unwavering hope, and is relevant to people of all backgrounds and faiths.

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JCC ROCKLAND’S 2011 A NOVEMBER TO REMEMBER

F E S T I V A LPRESENTED BY MICKI & JIM LEADER AND LEADER & BERKON, LLP

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CHILDREN’S EVENTSunday, November 6, 10:30amMyra Shankar Lazar, The Good Deed DogWho can resist the charm of Lazar, the rescue dog, whose mission is to bring a smile of joy to residents of a nursing home? This intergenerational event is perfect for parents and grandparents to accompany their children and grandchildren. Myrna Gelman Shankar will be reading her book, Lazar, the Good Deed Dog. It will be followed by a

book sale and signing, while the children create a related art project which will be donated to local nursing homes. The event will conclude with a performance by Luke Montgomery of Music for Aardvarks.

ART EXHIBIT OPENINGSunday, November 13, 3–5:30pmThe exhibit will be on display from November 1–20.

The Jewish Cultural Arts Festival is pleased to present the work of eight artists whose talent has been on display around the world. The mediums are all different and the creations thought provoking and beautiful. Join us for a wine and cheese reception where you can speak with the artists, enjoy some music and immerse yourself in the fine arts.

Featured Artists:Phil Fine Barbara Green Ned Harris Ilse Lang Simon Jeruchin Moshe Monzon Natasha Rabin Herb Rogoff

To find out more about our featured artists, visit jccrockland.org.

CHAGALL ART LECTURE Monday, November 7, 1pmYou know about the Chagall windows but what else do you know about Marc Chagall? For more than 70 years, Chagall created artworks that reflected the time and place where he lived; his early life in Russia; with avant-garde artists in pre-WW I Paris; an interim stay in Russia during the revolution; again in Paris and then to America during WW II. Returning to France, many commissions gave him the chance to work in stained glass, mosaics, and etching.

Since 1991, Irene Wisoff has been a lecturer with the education department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ms. Wisoff holds graduate degrees in Fine Arts Education and Art History from Columbia University. Ms. Wisoff will speak about Chagall, his life, his loves and his art. Come learn what else he accomplished in those 70 years. His unusual compositions and folklorist and religious themes continually bring praise from critics and the public.

CHAZEN JAZZ CONCERT: Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket RevueSaturday, November 12, 7:30pmRegency Banquet & Conference Center at Comfort Inn NanuetSponsored by Simona & Jerome ChazenPaul Shapiro’s Ribs and Brisket Revue will take center stage midway through our festival. In the 1950’s New York swung to the beat of clashing cultures and Jazz met Judaism. The sounds are bluesy, blowzy and the songs are about food, dancing, swing, shuffle and a touch of sex. Shapiro injects spurts of laughter into the music because what would life be without those moments of happiness. Come soak up the sounds and the heart pumping, hard blowing, finger snapping jazz will have you dancing in the aisles. Light refreshments will be available.

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ART & CULTUREPHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP Sunday, November 6, 4pm

Maya Barkai is a world renowned photographer with an eye for a twist in the works of art. Using new processes she utilizes the internet, Flickr and other media to create collaborative works. This workshop will engage you in the creation of one canvas using photography. Preregistration is required so we can send out materials ahead of the event. So grab your cameras and come join us for a fun creative experience. Beginners welcome!

About Maya Barkai Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Barkai is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts’ Photography Department (BFA 2005), and has been based in New York City for the past nine years. She spent her military service in the Israeli Defense Forces as a military photographer for the IDF Official Magazine, “BaMachaneh”. She is the recipient of the National Press Photographers Foundation Grant (2005). Barkai’s work was included in the Sony World Photography Awards (2008), W Magazine’s Next Fashion Photographer’ showcase, as well as other publications. Maya’s most recent projects include Men At Work, surrounding the construction site of World Trade Center - Tower 4, as well as Walking Men 99™, a site-specific Public Art Installation, on site of the upcoming Four Seasons Hotel in NYC’s Downtown area. Additional projects include Walking Men PERMM, a public art installation in collaboration with the PERMM Museum of Contemporary art in Russia, and Men at Work as part of the Bat Yam International Biennale for Landscape Urbanism in Israel.

JEWISH SOLDIERS IN BLUE & GRAYThursday, November 10, 7pm Lafayette TheaterGuest Speaker: Shalom E. LammSponsored by Denise & Adam Lipson

Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, JEWISH SOLDIERS IN BLUE & GRAY is a first-of-its-kind film that reveals the little-known struggles facing American Jews both in battle and on the home front during the nation’s deadliest war. This documentary reveals an unknown chapter in American history when allegiances during the War Between the States deeply split the Jewish community. It examines a time when approximately 10,000 Jewish soldiers fought on both sides and exposes General Ulysses Grant’s controversial decision to expel all Jews from his territory. The film also tells the stories of President Lincoln’s Jewish doctor serving as a spy in the South, and how five Union Jewish soldiers received the Congressional Medal of Honor. Narrated by Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Milius (Apocalypse Now).

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AMNON’S JOURNEYSunday, November 20, 7pm AMC TheatresSponsored by Regency Banquet & Conference Center at Comfort Inn Nanuet

This moving, lyrical documentary recounts the fascinating and inspiring story of master

violin maker Amnon Weinstein. For more than a decade, Amnon’s quest was to recover violins played by Jews in the ghettos, camps and forests during the Holocaust. In his Tel-Aviv workshop, he lovingly restores these remnants of a thriving Jewish culture that was all but eradicated. Each instrument tells a unique story and in Amnon’s skilled hands new life is breathed into each, bringing forth the voices of a lost generation. AMNON’S JOURNEY features stirring musical performances by international virtuosos Maestro Shlomo Mintz, Yair Dalal and Cihat Askin, and culminates with the breathtaking gala concert in Jerusalem’s Old City on the occasion of Israel’s 60th anniversary. “Violins of Hope” featured the Philharmonic Orchestra of Istanbul, Turkey and the Symphonette Orchestra of Ra’anana, Israel playing sixteen of Amnon’s restored violins. Musical performance to follow.

WINE SEMINAR/TASTINGSunday, November 13, 4pmKosher wine 101- Not Your Grandmother’s Manischewitz!

Join us as we learn everything you ever wanted to know about Kosher wine from Israel and around the world. Leading the seminar is our own expert Gary Wartels owner of Skyview Wines and Spirits. Learn about new and different wines as well as old classics. We will taste the wines, ask questions and be able to order wines in time for the holidays at Gary’s special holiday discounts! Don’t miss this exciting event!

AN EVENING WITH CHARLES FOXKilling Me Softly: My Life in Music

Wednesday, November 16, 7:30pm House opens at 7pm Paramount Country ClubModerator Elliott Forrest

Sponsored by and Hosted at Paramount Country Club, New City

Charles Fox, songwriter, Hall of Fame Inductee, composer of music for more than 100 films and TV series including Happy Days, Love Boat and Laverne & Shirley, twice nominated for an Oscar, two-time Emmy winner will be with us in-person for an evening of musical magic. At the piano, Mr. Fox will be playing familiar tunes - all of which he composed. And as a raconteur, we will hear stories of his career, growing up in the Bronx, the letters he wrote his Israeli-born mother and Polish shtetl-born father while he was studying composition in Paris with the famed Nadia Boulanger. Mr. Fox will reveal the highlights of his amazing career, including his work with Barry Manilow, Roberta Flack and Lena Horne.

PERFORMANCESNAOMI ACKERMAN, Flowers Aren’t Enough *

Thursday, November 17, 7:30pm*See reverse side for full list of sponsorsThis riveting one-woman show written and performed by American-Israeli actress Naomi Ackerman tells the story of Michal, a young woman from an upper middle class Israeli family who is abused by her husband. The monologue is woven together from true stories shared by women willing to talk about their experience as survivors of intimate partner violence. The performance will be followed by a panel

discussion and a light dessert. Presented by JCC Rockland and Rockland Family Shelter. Net proceeds will be donated to Rockland Family Shelter.

FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION CALL 845.362.4400 OR VISIT JCCROCKLAND.ORG.

Friday, November 4, 12pm Lunch & Learn

Liel Leibovitz Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient CivilizationSponsored by Fountain View at College Road

Few people know that in the 1870s, China sent a group of boys to America to learn the ways of the West, modernize

their own country and defend it from foreigners. This youthful cadre of students spent a decade in New England’s finest schools. They returned to China imbued with America’s pioneering spirit of progress and reform. Author Liel Leibovitz delved into diaries, letters and first-person accounts to weave this extraordinary tale which ultimately guided a nation to new life and change. Fortunate Sons reveals insights into China today, its struggle for economic supremacy and its relationship with the United States.

Thursday, November 3, 7:30pmThanassis Cambanis A Privilege To Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against IsraelWhat is Hezbollah, and why are middle-class engineers, merchants, and nurses willing to die for this movement whose aim is to destroy Israel? Journalist and teacher of writing and foreign policy at Columbia University, Thanassis Cambanis covers the Arab world for the NY Times. He presents facts about Hezbollah, namely that it has won

two wars with Israel and that it has become the most powerful and influential movement in the Islamic world. Cambanis offers insights into this complex organization that comprises a standing army, a terrorist group, a political party and a theological movement. This book should be required reading to understand the enormous threat of Hezbollah to Israel and to the West.

Jerome Verlin Israel 3000 Years: The Jewish People’s 3000 Year Presence in PalestineIn print and on TV, Israel has been accused of being “occupiers” and “colonists” in the Middle East. Israel’s enemies use these false invectives in an attempt to delegitimize the existence of Israel. Author Jerome Verlin’s book, now in its second edition, documents that the Jewish people have continuously and consistently lived in Israel for over 3000 years. Using historical and archeological

facts as well as past observations of travelers to the Holy Land, Verlin is impassioned to prove to the world that through thousands of years when the region changed hands, Jews were the lone constant in the land of Israel. “We have to make the case to the world,” says Verlin, “or see Israel’s very existence endangered.”

COMEDY EVENING: Saturday, November 19, 7:30pm

Robin Fox Mike Jacobs MC: Adam Oliensis

Ron LiebmanJersey LawDubbed the “Jewish Sopranos,” Ron Liebman’s novel is set in New Jersey and tells the story of two ex-cops, night school criminal lawyers who have taken on representing the dregs of society. Spiced with colorful characters like Slippery Williams and Dumpy Brown, Jersey Law is a juicy legal thriller, full of dark humor, unexpected twists and shady underworld characters who reside in Camden, New Jersey.

Len Rosen All Cry ChaosWhat happens when a best-selling non-fiction author who teaches writing at Harvard and whose radio essays are broadcast on NPR, decides to write a murder mystery? The result is a first-rate gem of a book, which critics have called an international thriller for smart readers. Dealing with philosophical concepts of the connectedness of all life, Interpol agent Henri Poincare pursues the killer. Yet, he is continually humbled by the mystery of creation. One reviewer stated, “What The Da Vinci Code did for symbology, All Cry Chaos does for mathematical theory.”

Joseph Braude Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab WorldEnter the mysterious world of Casablanca and explore Jewish-Muslim relations in this true story of murder and intrigue. Born to an Iraqi-Jewish family, author Joseph Braude studied Near Eastern Languages at Yale and Arabic and Islamic history at Princeton. Fluent in Arabic, Persian and Hebrew, Braude begins delving into the case of the murder of a night watchman at a warehouse owned by a Jewish businessman. His attempt to solve the crime

reveals surprising facts about the remnants of Morocco’s ancient Jewish community.

AUTHORS PANEL: Mystery ThrillersTuesday, November 15, 7:30pmSponsored by Helene & Barry Lewis

You do not have to read the books to enjoy these great events!

All events will be held at JCC Rockland, unless otherwise noted.

Painting by Ilse Lang

Sponsored by Rockland Toyota