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Lois Green, BA,
Program
Director, ext. 104 - Bio
lgreen@jcconthehudson.org
Also available
below:
Active Retirement Program
Men's Club
Also of
Interest:
Fitness
Music & Performing Arts
Jewish Education
Special Services
Rivertowns Jewish Consortium
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The Adult Experience
Welcome to
the Adult Experience is an exciting compilation of cultural programs:
films, lectures, trips and innovative experiences. Whether your ambition
is lifelong learning, a stimulating evening or just the chance to
connect with contemporaries, The Adult Experience offers programs to
suit nearly every taste.
Pre-registration is required for all
programs.
 Lunch
and Learn
Join this unique
group of women who are ready, willing and able to discuss and solve the
problems of the world.
Leader: Lois
Green
Mondays, May 3, June 7,
12:45-2:30 p.m.
Fee: $5 per
session
 Learn
the Mother Tongue; Yiddish For You!
Unique in
verbiage, Yiddish words can either exalt or insult - it all depends on
how you say it. The language of poets, scholars, playwrights and plain
folk, Yiddish is magical!
Instructor:
Matty Simon, longtime Yiddishist and teacher.
Tuesdays, noon
10 sessions begin April 13
Fee: $100, JCC member $80
The Yiddish World Revisited
Take a look at
the world in which our grandparents and parents lived in and
thrived. Through readings, film and archival information, we
will look at how the Yiddish world offered a rich tapestry
of knowledge, imagination and language.
Facilitator: Mara Miles
Thursday, 10:00
a.m.-12 noon
April 8, 15, 22,
29
Fee: Free
This program
is underwritten and sponsored by a grant from the New York
Council for the Humanities. Additional funding is provided
by the Edwin Soforenko Foundation.
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People at
Leisure (PALs)
Get on the bus
and go with us.”
Trips for adults
interested in unique and sometimes off beat places. Fees include
transportation, admissions and tours. Lunches are at individual’s
expense.
Advance registration and pre-payment
are required.
Hebrew
Union College and the Jewish Museum
Thursday, May 6
Come along on a Jewish journey. The first stop is to Hebrew Union College to
enjoy a guided tour of the “Isaac Bashevis Singer and his Artists” exhibit. The
second stop will be a guided tour of the Jewish Museum’s exhibit “Modern Art,
Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber and Gottlieb.” The group will also have an
opportunity to see the "Curious George" exhibit.
Fee: $76,
JCC member $66
The Barnes Museum and
Arboretum
Thursday, June 10
Located in a twelve acre Arboretum in Merion, PA, the
foundation is home to one
of the world’s largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and
early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne,
Renoir, Modigliani as well as important examples of Native American and African
sculptures.
The Barnes Foundation was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 “to promote
the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts.” The grounds
are magnificent and are a wonderful respite.
We will stop on the way down, eat lunch after our visit and stop on the way
back.
Fee: $99, JCC member $90
Active Retirement Program (ARP)
Project Director: Linda Paver, LCSW-R
Project Coordinator: Felicia Ash
The Active Retirement Program is committed to providing
life-long learning opportunities of the highest quality for adults 60
years and older.
This unique program offers an eclectic variety of
provocative, stimulating, and engaging continuing education programs.
Professional presenters from local colleges and the community provide
courses of study in the arts, literature, theatre, philosophy, current
events, and life trends.
Fee:
$3.00 contribution per person per visit, unless
otherwise noted.
Mondays
10:30 a.m. – noon, doors open at 10:00 a.m.
ARP is
funded by the NYS Department for the Aging through the office of State
Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins.
Bioethics
April 26
Bioethics examines the application of technology to
health care issues from the perspective of “just because something can be done,
does that mean it should be done?” We live at a time when previously held
convictions or cultural mores are under close scrutiny and science is, for some
people, forcing us to pause and examine our core beliefs. We know that 65 year
old women may bear children. Dead
men may father children. Some people see selling human organs is like any other
kind of commerce. But should they? Since science progresses more rapidly than
the law or religious teaching, what will be the basis of public policy? How will
these changes affect our personal belief system? This session will examine real
examples from court rooms and legislatures around the country. The ensuing
discussion may reveal a great deal about the direction that we, as citizens,
believe the country should take.
Instructor:
Mary Lou Dillon
completed the Certificate Program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
sponsored by Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Einstein
College of Medicine. At Georgetown University she was a master teacher in
workshops teaching high school teachers how to incorporate Bioethics into their
existing curricula. Currently Ms. Dillon facilitates Basic and Advanced
Bioethics at the Learning Collaborative at the Long Island University campus in
Rockland County.
T. S. Eliot’s
“Three Voices Within a Poem”
May 3
This discussion will enhance the audiences reading and understanding of T. S.
Elliot’s poems such as “The Wasteland” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
Instructor:
Elisabeth Sarah von Uhl
teaches at Fordham University in the
Bronx. Her chapbook Ocean Sea has been published by Finishing Line Press.
She has a Masters of Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College
The Black Arts Poets
May
10
The discussion will center on the Black Arts
Movement, a group of American poets inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and
the poets they inspired; Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni,
Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, and Quincy Troupe. Contemporary poets include
Lucille Clifton, Cornelius Eady, Ross Gay, Alice Walker and Kevin Young
Instructor:
Rachel M. Simon's first
book of poems,
“Theory of Orange,”
published in March of 2007 won the Transcontinental Prize. She teaches writing,
literature and gender studies at SUNY Purchase College, Sarah Lawrence College,
and at a maximum-security women's prison.
Where Comedy Went to School
May 17
Modern American comedy was developed in the Borscht Belt by a generation of
Jewish comedians who honed their craft in the resorts of the Catskill Mountains.
These resorts became the training ground for the stand-up comic, the sad
nebbish (poor soul) whose troubles were greater than life, and whose
kvetch (complaint) was cosmic as well as comic. These stand-up and situation
comedians like Danny Kaye, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Jerry Lewis, Lenny
Bruce, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Totie Fields, Mal Z. Lawrence and Jackie Mason
to name only a few had a singular ability to capture their complaint in verbal
music, in a torrent of words, a shpritz that developed into improvisational jazz
and brought relief from the tsores (troubles) that confront all
Americans. Join Professor Joe Dorinson for an informative as well as hilarious
journey east of Eden, west of the Moon, and 100 miles north of New York City,
where comedy went to school.
Instructor:
Joseph Dorinson
is a professor in the History Department at Long Island
University, where he has taught since 1966. Dorinson has
co-edited a book, Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the
American Dream (1999), and has written numerous articles on
a variety of subjects spanning his beloved borough of
Brooklyn: black heroes, sports, politics, humor, and
ethnicity. This event is part of the New York Council
for the Humanities, Speakers in the Humanities Program and
is free to the community.
DEFs of Opera
May 24
Last year we presented the “ABCs of Opera” (Aida,
La Boheme, Carmen.) We now continue through the alphabet with DEF.
With a lot of human interest material, as well as facts and anecdotes, Lu Gmoser
shares her enthusiasm for three popular operas – Donizetti’s The Daughter
of the Regiment, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and Gounod’s Faust.
The program includes a plethora of taped musical excerpts.
Instructor: Lu Gmoser is a frequent lecturer for the Mainstream program at Westchester
Community College. She is a recipient of the Cab Calloway Lifetime Achievement
Award and the Untermeyer Performing Arts Council Griffon Award for her efforts
on behalf of the performing arts.
End of Year Brunch
June 7
$12 per person
Join us for this event celebrating another year of
friendships and programs.
We are looking forward to sharing another special occasion with all of you. Guests
are welcome. Please RSVP by May 24.
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Men’s Club
Wednesdays at 9:45 a.m.
Fee: Call for
information (JCC Membership
required)
This ongoing program, with meetings
over coffee and bagels, was originally formed by a group of retired
professionals and business executives to provide fellowship and exchange
ideas. Over the years the club has added an aura of intellectual
awareness by providing stimulating lectures, diverse programs, member
participation, and exposure to cultural events.
The club has
attracted speakers ranging from members of congress to health providers
to members sharing their own experiences and expertise. Men’s Club
membership is not limited to any age group and new members are always
welcome.
Schedule
April 28
Open meeting, current events discussion.
May 5 at 11:30 a.m.
A celebration of Charlie Hellman's 100th Birthday.
May 12
Learn about retirement vehicles and Roth IRA
conversions from Arnold Hockstadt, Sr. Vice President, UBS
Financial Services, Inc.
May 19
JCC closed for Shavuot
May 26
Open meeting, current events.
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