The Adult Experience
Welcome to The Adult Experience.
For years the JCC has
offered traditional programs based more on age than individual interest.
Our recent effort, The Renaissance Network, which targeted baby-boomers,
truly helped us learn what adults really want from an adult education
program; new learning, social opportunities, and a sense of what's next.
Our adults don't want to be classified by age. They believe learning
should be a shared and dynamic experience, which brings us to The Adult
Experience the contemporary way to be engaged with new ideas, new
places, and new friends.
The Adult Experience is
an exciting compilation of offerings at the JCC that brings together a
wide range of quality cultural programs. Whether your ambition is
lifelong learning, a stimulating evening or just the chance to connect
with old friends and new, The Adult Experience offers programs to suit
nearly every taste.
Catch a critically
acclaimed release presented in our “Film” series. Be challenged by a
provocative discussion from our series of talks entitled “The Jewish
Perspective.” Relax and enjoy a presentation on literature, art, music
or theatre from “The Arts.” Get energized by thought-provoking,
cutting-edge presentations from another new series entitled,
“Contemporary Thoughts.”
The Adult Experience.
Our aim is simple. To take you away for a couple of hours …and always
have you coming back for more.
Pre-registration
is requested for all adult programs.
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Active Retirement Program (ARP)
9160
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.
Monday and Thursday, 10:30 a.m. – noon, doors open at 10:00
a.m.
Monday programs are held at the JCC on the Hudson
(JCC),
371 South Broadway, Tarrytown.
Thursday programs are held at the Greenburgh Hebrew
Center (GHC),515 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry.
ARP is
funded by the NYS Department for the Aging through the office of State
Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins.
History of Hypnosis
9160
Monday, June 2
JCC
From ancient to
modern times, find out how hypnosis was and is used. Discussion will
center on the scientific investigation into hypnosis, its clinical and
experimental use, its popular images, and the facts and fiction
associated with it.
Instructor: Sheldon Malev is a full time professor of psychology
at Westchester Community College where he teaches a three-credit course
on hypnosis. He also has a private practice in White Plains that focuses
on hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
The Secrets Behind Magic
9160
Thursdays, June 5
GHC
Whether you are a 'magic' person or not, this fascinating subject will
amaze and delight as you watch this master magician and perform
extraordinary tricks, and learn the 'magic' behind them.
Instructor: David Fletcher is a professional magician. He is
returning by popular request.
End of Season Brunch
9160
Thursday, June 12 GHC
Friends, fun, and
looking forward. Enjoy our end of season dairy brunch.
Fee: $12 Friends welcome.
PALs - People at Leisure
Visit
the Tolstoy Foundation
Thursday, June 19 at 9:30 a.m.
Fee: $75, JCC member $68 includes transportation,
tour and lunch.
A
director-lead tour will take visitors through this classically styled
onion domed church and library committed to serving as a magnet for the
Russian diaspora. The Tolstoy Foundation was founded in 1939 by
Alexandra Tolstoy, youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy and Sergie
Rachmaninoff who strongly believed in the preservation of Russian
culture in America.
Be Fruitful and Multiply
Wednesday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Series: $10, JCC
member $5
9140
This
documentary looks at the lives of four U.S. and Israeli ultra-orthodox
women. In interviews, each of the women discusses her belief itn
he traditional roles for women and men touching on education, work
outside the home, perpetual motherhood as natural and desirable, and the
proper raising of children. The film features Miriam who has 16
children and lives in Brooklyn; Emunah, mother of 14 in Jerusalem; Yaffa,
mother of five in Kfar Chabad; and Yentl, mother of four in Meah Shearim.
Me’ah: an Adult Learning Program of Hebrew College
Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m.
The JCC on the Hudson
in collaboration with the members of the Rivertowns Jewish Consortium
presents this intensive program of Jewish learning in cooperation with
Hebrew College in Boston.
Me’ah is a continuing adult education course. Me’ah is a
two-year study
program, therefore registration is closed for this year.
PARTNERSHIP 2000
Inspiration Israel-Jewish Mosaic 2007-2008
Many important,
diverse, and life changing programs have been completed during the past
seven years collaborating with our sister agencies, JCC of
Mid-Westchester in Scarsdale, and Ginot Ha’ir in Jerusalem: “Hishtakfuyot,”
a story/art exhibition, “Cook My Story,” a cookbook compiled of
family recipes from around the world which touched the generations, “The
Spider” project where music was used as a social and communication tool
for American and Israeli teens to find common areas of interest.
“The Jewish Mosaic,”
our current two-year program is a twinning project. Last year,
Westchester educators traveled to Israel to meet their counterparts,
attend an educational conference, spend time in the classroom with
teachers and students learning their curriculum, and planning dual
projects. This fall, Israeli educators will come here to work, teach and
learn about our early childhood programs, our congregational schools,
and Jewish day schools. Hopefully, a fourth partner from Bulgaria,
Brazil or Argentina will join this project, expanding our experiences
and adding a new dimension to the concept of Jewish Peoplehood.
We gratefully
acknowledge the continued funding by UJA-Federation of New York and the
Jewish Agency For Israel in Jerusalem.
Social Learning Opportunities
Lunch and Learn
Monday, June 2 at
12:30 p.m.
Shavuot:
were you at Sinai or somewhere else?
Fee: $5
An informal learning exchange facilitated by Lois Green. Bring a bag
lunch.
Men’s Club
Wednesdays at 9:45 a.m.
Fee: Call for
information
This ongoing program
features speakers, lecturers of diverse interests and expertise,
discussion of current events, and good fellowship over bagels and
coffee. New members always welcome.
Schedule
May 14
Enjoy a performance by pianist Donald Isler.
May 21
Open meeting. Members will participate in a current
events discussion.
May 28
Spring luncheon.
June 4
The current
mortgages situation presented by Vincent Dimella of Caldwell Banker.
June 11
Recycling and Earth Watch with The Journal News
journalist, Greg Clarey.
June 18
Pamela Cardoza of Phelps Memorial Hospital will discuss
their volunteer program. There will also be an open
meeting discussion on current events.
June 25
Bob Rachlin
will continue presenting his travels: Two Months in Asia.
Guests are always welcome.
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