Camp Shalom Week 3
Boonshoft CJCE 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville, OHCamp Shalom Gadol
Camp Shalom Gadol
An evening with keynote speaker Dr. Ruth World-renowned psychosexual therapist, author, and lecturer Dr. Ruth Westheimer may best be known for having pioneered talking explicitly about sex on radio and television, but that is only a small part of her rich and diversified life. Born in Germany in 1928, Dr. Westheimer was sent to Switzerland […]
Active Adults Dine Around dinner before catching a JCC Film Fest movie The Spy Behind Home Plate at the Neon
In this first ever feature-length documentary about the enigmatic Moe Berg, Aviva Kempner again focuses her camera on a little-known Jewish hero.
2018 | 93 min. | Drama | Hebrew Orna is the mother of three young children with a husband struggling to start his own restaurant. To help support her family, Orna returns to the workplace. She lands a job with a former army superior, Benny, who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna […]
Please join us for our great discussion of Devotions by Mary Oliver.
2018 | 102 min. | Drama | Hebrew Shoelaces tells the story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son, whom he abandoned while he was still a young boy. Reuben’s kidneys are failing and his adult son, Gadi, wants to donate one of his own kidneys to help save his father’s […]
Camp Shalom Gadol
In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars, and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper.
Golda Meir’s rise from Russian schoolgirl to American schoolteacher to a leader of international politics as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most amazing stories of the twentieth century.