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2026-2027 Schedule

  • Pre-Neg Teachings

    One Friday per month. Times: 5:15-5:45 

  • Thinking about God - Four-week class with Rabbi Mary L. Zamore

    Weekly on Thursdays at Noon In October (Lavy House)

  • Taste of Oral Torah with Razi Haimi-Cohen

    Weekly on Tuesdays beginning on October 6 at 7:30 PM (Lavy House) 

  • JBC Community Read with Bruce Feiler and Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

    Thursday, October 15 1:00-2:00pm - Zoom 

  • Josh Cutler, The Seventy Shuls

    Monday, October 19 at 11:15 AM at the JCC 

  • The JCC Film Festival Presents: Centered

    Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM at the Cranford Theater

  • The Future is Peace – Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon, peace activists

    Tuesday, November 10 at 12:00 PM  

  • Debrief of Israeli Elections

    Friday, November 13 at 12:00 PM on Zoom

  • Rabbi Laura Geller, Moments That Matter (Grotta Fund)

    Tuesday, November 17 at 7:30 PM

  • Joanna Stern, I am Not a Robot – My Year of Using AI To Do (Almost) Everything

    Wednesday, December 2 at 7:30 PM

  • June Hersh & Alon Shaya, Memories of a Good Meal

    Tuesday, December 15 at 9:45 AM

  • 3-part class with Audrey Klepser, rabbinic intern - Forgetfulness in the Talmud

    1/8, 1/22, 2/12, 12:00pm (w/lunch),Lavy House 

  • Mark Oppenhiemer, Judy Blume

    1/10/27, Sunday – 1:30pm 

  • Roy Altman, Israel On Trial

    2/2/27, Tuesday, 7:30pm 

  • Ron Gold, Disability activist for Nisayon and open to congregation

    2/3/27, Wednesday, evening 

  • Mexico City Trip

    2/14-2/19/27

  • Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, ADL

    Tuesday, February 23 at 7:30 PM

  • Pamela Nadell, Antisemitism, An American Tradition

    Wednesday, March 10 at 7:30 PM

  • Niki Russ Federman & Josh Russ Tepper, Russ & Daughters

    5/2/27, Sunday, 10:00am-JCC 

  • Rebecca Blumenstein, The Last Free Women (Escape from Afghanistan)

    Monday, May 3 at 11:15 AM at the JCC

  • Jeffrey Katz – Unsettled Ground – Germany's Attempts to Make Amends

    Tuesday, May 4 at 9:45 AM 

  • Beth Pinsker – My Mother’s Money

    Wednesday, May 19 at 7:30 PM

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