Thursday, April 3, 2008; 12:30-2:00
Eleanor Leff Jewish Women's Resource Center
NCJW NY Section
820 Second Avenue (between 43rd & 44th Sts.), 2nd Floor

JWRC Book Discussion Group

This month's selection: Rebecca Goldstein: Mazel

Mazel is a winner of the 1995 National Jewish Book Award. The book captures shtetl life in the 1920s. It highlights the relationship of Sasha to her daughter and granddaughter, to her own mother and to her sisters. The book begins as Sasha is about to become a great-grandmother but then carries us from the predominantly Jewish suburb of Lipton, New Jersey, to the 1920s shtetl of Shluftchev, Galicia. Her long life reminds us of the history common to many of our mothers and grandmothers born in Central Europe, who eventually immigrated to this country. In addition, Sasha experienced the incredible transitions that have characterized our lives in twentieth century America.

May Selection: Amy Bloom: Away
This story follows the adventures of its heroine from the pogrom she survives to the painful search for the child she left there, rumored to have survived.

The Book Discussion Group is a benefit of NCJW NY Section membership. Non-members pay $5.00.

For further information, please contact us at 212-687-5030, x 10 or info@ncjwny.org



Thursday Afternoons 1:30 TO 3:30 PM.
8 Lessons!
April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2008
May 15, 22, and 29, 2008
NCJW NY Section
820 Second Avenue (between 43rd & 44th Sts.), 2nd Floor

BRIDGE CLASSES - Intermediate thru Advanced

Take advantage of our Winter series of bridge classes, hosted by Peter Steinberg.
ALL NEW MATERIAL:
* Logical bidding "Participation Drills."
* Opening leads: "think like an expert."
* Common problems in declarer play and how to solve them.
* Game tries and slam tries...and much more

IT'S ENTERTAINING AND CHALLENGING!
Every lesson features pre-printed notes and duplicated boards!
If you have any questions regarding course content, please call
PETER STEINBERG at 212-873-5338

$140 for NY Section members,
$190* for non-members*(includes 07-08 membership!)
Call Dorothy at 212-687-5030 X17 as soon as possible to reserve your spot!



Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 2:00 PM
NCJW NY Section
820 Second Avenue (between 43rd & 44th Sts.), 2nd Floor

Meet Martin Lemelman
Graphic Artist, Memoirist and Author of Mendel's Daughter - A Memoir

"Mendel's Daughter is a gritty eyewitness report on the great upheaval of eastern Europe in the 1930s and '40s, based on Lemelman's recordings of his mother in 1989...with a combination of charcoal drawings and photographs, he creates a sense both of an almost mythical time gone by and the very real lives that were snuffed out."-- Publisher's Weekly

Cost: $15/members, $20/ non-members
Light refreshments will be served
Books will be available for purchase
RSVP to Bella at (212) 687-5030, extension 10 by April 3, 2008 or info@ncjwny.org
Your advance payment is your reservation



Thursday, April 10th - 10:45 AM Promptly
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street

Cultural Affairs Tour of the Yeshiva University Museum
Lunch at Havana Central, 22 East 17th Street

Cost: $ 30.00 - Members / $ 40.00 - Non-Members
Call Dorothy at 212-687-5030 X17 as soon as possible to reserve your spot!



April 14 and 28
May 12 and 27, 2008 at 10:30 AM
NCJW NY Section
820 Second Avenue (between 43rd & 44th Sts.), 2nd Floor

CALLING ALL KNITTERS!

Join the KnitWits as we create knitted toys and clothing for needy children!



Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:30 PM
NCJW NY Section
820 Second Avenue (between 43rd & 44th Sts.), 2nd Floor

Jazz On Second Avenue
Gala Luncheon Buffet & Cabaret To Benefit Council Senior Center - Honoring CSC Co-Chair CAROL L. KLAPPER
and Manhattan Borough President SCOTT M. STRINGER
Entertainment by Pure Tones of Soul featuring Lezlie Harrison

For more information, please call Susan Freeman
at (212) 687-5030. extension 25



The Jewish and Israel Affairs Committee present
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 12:00 Noon
NCJW NY Section
820 Second Avenue (between 43rd & 44th Sts.), 2nd Floor

A Celebration of Israel at 60!
Music from the Columbia Klezmer Band
Lunch with a Middle Eastern flavor

Cost: $20/members, $25/ non-members
Buy A raffle ticket for $18
All proceeds go to Yad B'Yad - NCJW's Initiative to Nurture Knowledge



Monday, May 19, 2008 - 2:15 PM
NCJW NY Section
820 Second Avenue (between 43rd & 44th Sts.), 2nd Floor

MEMBERSHIP BOOK CLUB
Falling Man: A Novel by Don DeLillo

The defining moment of turn-of-the-21st-century America is perfectly portrayed in National Book Award winner Don DeLillo's Falling Man. The book takes its title from the electrifying photograph of the man who jumped or fell from the North Tower on 9/11. It also refers to a performance artist who recreates the picture. The artist straps himself into a harness and in high visibility areas jumps from an elevated structure, such as a railway overpass or a balcony, startling passersby as he hangs in the horrifying pose of the falling man.

Join us for great discussion, pleasant company, snacks and coffee
Please contact us at 212-687-5030, extension 14, for more information and to let us know if you're coming



June 15, 2008 - DEADLINE

2008 JEWISH WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL
CALL FOR FILMS


Click here for more information.



National Council of Jewish Women • New York Section
820 Second Avenue • New York, NY 10017-4504
212-687-5030 • email: info@ncjwny.org