Edward & Bernice Wenger Center for the Arts

PERFORMANCE AND GUEST SPEAKERS

Edward & Bernice Wenger Center for the Arts at the JCC in Roslyn proudly presents entertaining and informative performances, including special film presentations, special guest speakers, and family-friendly entertainment.

IRENE & RONALD COHEN SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER SERIES

The Spotlight Speaker series presents some of today's most interesting speakers from the area of Arts, Culture and Politics at Sid Jacobson JCC. Past speakers have included renowned architect Daniel Liebeskind, The New York Times journalist Frank Rich, Ambassador Dennis Ross and actor Evan Handler.

Erik Larson
Best-selling author of In the Garden Of Beasts and
The Devil in the White City
Thursday, May 10, 7:30pm
Fee $35 / members $25
Priority seating $40
(First three rows only)

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HOT TOPICS ... EVENING GUEST SPEAKERS

Kenneth Ginsburg, Letting Go with Love and Confidence, Raising Responsible, Resilient, Self-Sufficient Teens in the 21st Century
Dr. Ginsburg offers practical advice on everyday challenging decisions. This discussion will help parents manage emotions about letting go, reduce conflict around the whens, minimize anxiety over the hows, gain confidence to make the right decisions and understand that nurturing independence is an act of love. Dr. Ginsburg is an Adolescent Medicine specialist. In collaboration with Partners In Caring (PIC).
Tuesday, March 6, 7:30pm
Fee $5 / $10 at the door

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Jennifer Griffin & Greg Myre, This Burning Land, Lessons from the Front Lines of the  Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Myre and Griffin, journalists who are husband and wife, were raising a family as the Palestinian uprising erupted in Israel. Myre is a New York Times reporter, and Griffin is a Fox News correspondent. In collaboration with the Adult Center.
Monday, March 19, 7:30pm
Fee $25 / members $18

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SPOTLIGHT ON SPORTS WEEK

Richard Michelson, Lipman Pike America’s First Home Run King
Long before Shawn Green, Sandy Koufax or Hank Greenberg, there was Lipman Pike, the Jewish boy whose power and speed made him baseball’s First Superstar. This history of professional baseball and the immigrant experience is combined in this wonderful book. In the mid 1800s, baseball was just beginning. How will players react to a Jewish teammate?
Sunday, March 11, 10:30am
Fee $7 / members $5

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A PANEL DISCUSSION
Tuesday, March 13, 7:30pm
Fee $20 / members $15 / students $10

Moderated by Len Berman, former NBC sports anchor and author of four books, including The Greatest Moments in Sports.

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Kostya Kennedy, 56 Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
The summer of 1941. The Nazis were advancing across Europe and young Americans were being drafted. Twenty-six year-old New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio captured the nation with his extraordinary streak of getting a hit each day for 56 games. Kennedy is a senior editor at Sports Illustrated and has been a staff writer at Newsday and written for The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Robert Lipsyte, An Accidental Sportswriter, A Memoir
Robert Lipsyte was the smart-aleck fat Jewish boy, a bully magnet who went to the library instead of the ballpark. He stumbled into sports by accident after answering an ad for a copy boy at The New York Times. Over the next 50 years, as a newspaper columnist and a network correspondent, he became one of the country’s most respected and controversial sportswriters. In this memoir, Lipsyte brings to life the subjects who were his teachers and the key to why sports held its grip on him. Lipsyte won an Emmy in 1990 for on-camera achievement.

M.Z. Ribalow, Peanuts and Crackerjacks
M.Z. Ribalow is a writer, artistic director and artist-in-residence at Fordham University. His baseball novel Peanuts and Crackerjacks, his poetry collection Chasing Ghosts, and his new play Masterpiece were all published last year. Meir has co-written three books on Jews in Sports, including the classic The Jew in American Sports and is the founding director of www.jewsinsports.org.

Elyse Ingber, Director of Performance & Visual Arts, 516-484-1545, ext. 144, eingber@sjjcc.org