Archive: March 2023

Hartman Institute – Boundaries and Belonging: Creating a Synagogue Community of Meaning

Posted on March 15, 2023

March 15, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Building on the questions and tensions we’ve explored over the course of the past three sessions, Lauren Berkun will lead a group discussion about how we build and nourish synagogues that reflect our highest aspirations for Jewish life and community? How can synagogues embody the richest possibilities for flourishing Jewish life in the 21st century? For more […]

TBA- “The Seeds of Racial Equality: Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson” with Marshall Zucker (On Zoom)

Posted on March 15, 2023

March 15, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – When record producer and civil rights activist John Hammond arranged to have Benny Goodman play with pianist Teddy Wilson at a party in Forest Hills Queens in 1935, it was the beginning of a musical group that allowed for equality among the races in the USA for the first time. When Goodman and Wilson then […]