Date and Time of Class: Tuesday, November 22 & 29, 6-8 PM Ages: Open to all ages over 16 Cost: $40 Instructor: KM Smith TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT: Highly engaging, eliminates writer’s blocks, great for crisp imagery, and effective symbolism. Materials Required: Feel free to bring a laptop, notebook, and/or writing utensils. Metaphors are literary devices that […]
Join us for a moderated discussion about books with Jewish themes. This month’s selection: "The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred" by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Winner of the 2022 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award; A Smithsonian Magazine Best Science Book of 2021; A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year […]
After thirty years, Maverick (Tom Cruise) is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it. This action/adventure also stars Jennifer Connelly and Miles Teller. (2022) (130 […]
Back by popular demand! Join us for a virtual presentation of the New-York Historical Society’s new exhibit, “I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli! This presentation explores how Jewish immigrants, mostly from Central and Eastern Europe, imported and adapted traditions to create a uniquely American restaurant and reveals how Jewish delicatessens became a cornerstone […]
Date and Time of Class: Tuesday, November 22 & 29, 6-8 PM Ages: Open to all ages over 16 Cost: $40 Instructor: KM Smith TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT: Highly engaging, eliminates writer’s blocks, great for crisp imagery, and effective symbolism. Materials Required: Feel free to bring a laptop, notebook, and/or writing utensils. Metaphors are literary devices that […]
Date and Time of Class: Tuesday, November 22 & 29, 6-8 PM Ages: Open to all ages over 16 Cost: $40 Instructor: KM Smith TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT: Highly engaging, eliminates writer’s blocks, great for crisp imagery, and effective symbolism. Materials Required: Feel free to bring a laptop, notebook, and/or writing utensils. Metaphors are literary devices that […]
Join us for a moderated discussion about books with Jewish themes. This month’s selection: "The Prison Minyan" by Jonathan Stone "The Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, New York stands apart from most prisons." "...the prison's minimum-security camp has 'long been the lockup of choice among Jewish white-collar offenders', who are able to access kosher food […]
DETAILS The Beauty As Fuel For Change project is excited to announce its First Art Exhibition, Opening Sunday January 15, 2023, 2-5PM, and continuing Mondays-Fridays 8:30AM-4PM, January 16-February 17. The exhibition will be at The Wenberg Family Art Gallery, Fonseca Center, Masters School, 49 Clinton Ave, Dobbs Ferry, NY. Participants, inspired by the theme to […]
Date and Time of Class: Tuesday, November 22 & 29, 6-8 PM Ages: Open to all ages over 16 Cost: $40 Instructor: KM Smith TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT: Highly engaging, eliminates writer’s blocks, great for crisp imagery, and effective symbolism. Materials Required: Feel free to bring a laptop, notebook, and/or writing utensils. Metaphors are literary devices that […]
The Adult Education Committee of Temple Beth Abraham presents: "Light Up Your Life: The Significance of Light in Judaism" with Rabbi Marge Wise Rabbi Marge Wise will enlighten us about the symbolism & significance of light in Jewish tradition, as reflected both in Biblical & contemporary sources. She will trace how those sources have informed […]
A congregant-led discussion on topics of interest to Jewish Women and those who identify as Jewish Women. This month: "A Brief History of Jewish Summer Camps and How Camp Changed My Life" with Karen Filler Guests are welcome. Whether this program will be in person or online has not yet been decided. Please check the […]
Local filmmaker Jon Scott Bennett will present his extraordinary documentary, “The Pound Ridge Massacre, A Dark Chapter in Early America” In 1644, a combined force of Dutch and English colonists attacked a Native American village in present-day Westchester County, New York. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the indigenous people on the Atlantic […]
In 2015, after over a decade of programming, Dr. Naomi Saphra lost the ability to type. Confronted with a programmer's worst nightmare, she began the slow process of learning to dictate code. While customizing her environment and relying on configurations and scripts from a wider voice coding community, she simultaneously was confronted with paternalistic attitudes […]
Date and Time of Class: Tuesday, November 22 & 29, 6-8 PM Ages: Open to all ages over 16 Cost: $40 Instructor: KM Smith TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT: Highly engaging, eliminates writer’s blocks, great for crisp imagery, and effective symbolism. Materials Required: Feel free to bring a laptop, notebook, and/or writing utensils. Metaphors are literary devices that […]
Date and Time of Class: Tuesday, November 22 & 29, 6-8 PM Ages: Open to all ages over 16 Cost: $40 Instructor: KM Smith TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT: Highly engaging, eliminates writer’s blocks, great for crisp imagery, and effective symbolism. Materials Required: Feel free to bring a laptop, notebook, and/or writing utensils. Metaphors are literary devices that […]
This program is presented by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Artists use familiar icons such as the Statue of Liberty, the bald eagle, and the American flag to communicate their ideas about American culture and encourage examination of our society. Through an active discussion of works depicting America’s signs and symbols, participants will be better […]
Creative Alliance Project and Westchester Ballet Company presents a program of original music and dance, ' Got My Wings', inspired by the life and writings of Jarvis Jay Masters, a Buddhist practitioner and innocent man on death row in San Quentin State Prison. Got My Wings was created by Daniel Blake, jazz composer and saxophonist, with […]
Creative Alliance Project and Westchester Ballet Company presents a program of original music and dance, ' Got My Wings', inspired by the life and writings of Jarvis Jay Masters, a Buddhist practitioner and innocent man on death row in San Quentin State Prison. Got My Wings was created by Daniel Blake, jazz composer and saxophonist, with […]
Creative Alliance Project and Westchester Ballet Company presents a program of original music and dance, ' Got My Wings', inspired by the life and writings of Jarvis Jay Masters, a Buddhist practitioner and innocent man on death row in San Quentin State Prison. Got My Wings was created by Daniel Blake, jazz composer and saxophonist, with […]
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology offers 54 poets’ takes on often-unsung facets of this diamond in a rhinestone world—calling in Dolly’s impeccable comedic timing, her lyric mastery, her business acumen, and her Dollyverse advocacy. These poems remind us to be better and to do better, to subvert Dolly cliché, and they […]
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