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David Posnack JCC On the Nina & Louis Silverman Campus 5850 S Pine Island Rd, Davie, FL 33328 dpjcc.org | 954-434-0499

Cultural Arts Season 2023-24 At the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie, Florida, we are launching new ways to engage in Jewish cultural arts. Our vision is to lead Broward County in Jewish cultural arts experiences. Our new PACE Pass season is an affordable way to purchase events- ranging from Jewish Book Council authors sharing their latest works, to intergenerational sessions, family events and the beginning of our new artist-in-residence program, HaMakom (the ‘Place’ in Hebrew). The PACE Pass can be purchased for $360 for DPJCC members, and $450 for the community. Individual events can be purchased as you go. The PACE Pass includes our specially curated Diane and Barry Wilen Virtual Jewish Book Festival with 11 amazing authors and recordings in case you can’t make the live sessions. In addition to this core monthly program, stay tuned for more special events and opportunities to participate throughout the year. If you want to show your support for Jewish cultural arts, become a patron by purchasing a PACE Pass Plus. This Pass allows you to enjoy our season while making a charitable donation to our cultural arts programing that will help us continue bringing exciting programs. As PACE Pass Plus member, you will receive exclusive benefits, such as reserved seating at events and small group events. More details are enclosed! Whichever route you choose, don’t miss out on what is going to be a fabulous inaugural season! David Posnack JCC 5850 S Pine Island Rd, Davie, FL 33328 dpjcc.org | 954-434-0499

18 experiences from September through May, and the Diane and Barry Wilen Virtual Book Festival. $360 for DPJCC Members / $450 for community. Our PACE Pass Plus program provides patrons with entry for events, including the Diane and Barry Wilen Virtual Book Festival, while making a donation to Jewish cultural arts, at the same time. $500 – One PACE Pass, plus reserved seating at events $1000- Two PACE Passes, plus reserved seating at events $2500- Two PACE Passes, plus reserved seating at events, two guests for a small group tour of Gary Simmons exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami $5000- Two PACE Passes, plus reserved seating at events, two guests for small group tour of Gary Simmons exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and small group tour of an Art Basel exhibition with our Artist-in-Residence

PACE PASS 2023-24 SEASON SEPTEMBER 7, 7:00 pm Mania & Max Nudel Holocaust Learning Center @ DPJCC Join us for an evening with Retired FBI Agent Vince Pankoke who led the five-year team of cold case investigators, that tracked down the identity of the suspect who betrayed the Frank Family. Community OCTOBER 4, 10:30 am - Noon FAFUMN FIOLRYTHE Intergenerational Sensory Garden @ DPJCC Celebrate Sukkot by planting, sowing and creating in our new intergenerational sensory garden. Get your hands dirty or take part in fun and edible activities for all ages. Take your own plant home with you! Community David Posnack JCC 5850 S Pine Island Rd, Davie, FL 33328 dpjcc.org | 954-434-0499

PACE PASS 2023-24 SEASON OCTOBER 12, 7:00-8:30 pm Adult Class in the Art Room @ DPJCC Learn all the tips and tricks of how to take stunning photos on your smartphone. 27 36 Community/ OCTOBER 24, 1:30 pm Mania & Max Nudel Holocaust Learning Center @ DPJCC Book review with Lynda Levin in person in conversation with Jewish Book Council author Jennifer Rosner on zoom. A thought-provoking, moving tale about children whose Jewish parents gave them to Christians in desperate attempts to save them from the Nazis. Based on historical phenomena, Once We Were Home provides insight into the reality of post-war life for European Jews. Rosner’s novel pushes the boundaries of Holocaust literature, exploring some of the longer term consequences that survivors and their families faced. Community

PACE PASS 2023-24 SEASON OCTOBER 25, 7:00 pm Temple B'nai Aviv in Weston 1410 Indian Trace, Weston, FL 33326 In Code Name Sapphire, Pam Jenoff presents Micheline and Matteo, a pair of brave siblings running the dangerous Sapphire Line, a resistance network in Belgium operating during Nazi occupation in1942. They are dedicated to rescuing Western airmen who have fallen behind enemy lines, helping them recover from injuries so that they can return to their necessary missions fighting Nazis. Community /

PACE PASS 2023-24 SEASON NOVEMBER 9, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Adult Class in the Art Room @ DPJCC Protect your home with a homemade chamsa! Enjoy a glass of wine and evening mixed media craft class led by artist Ali Shrago-Spechler. Community NOVEMBER 15, 7:00 pm Temple Beth Emet in Cooper City 4807 S Flamingo Rd, Cooper City, FL 33330 With his finger always on the human pulse of historical events, Correa opens his third novel with the impossible decision a free-spirited poet must make to protect her mixed-race daughter from Hitler’s racial laws. He then follows the heartache that her grown daughter endures, having to send her own daughter away to save her life during the Castro revolution. As the story slips forward and backward through eighty-six years, from Germany, to Cuba, to New York and back to Germany in 2015, the family recovers pieces of their matriarchs’ stories, with revelations about the husbands, lovers, friends and betrayers in their lives. Community

PACE PASS 2023-24 SEASON DECEMBER 4, 11 and 18 Mondays, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Mania & Max Nudel Holocaust Learning Center @ DPJCC Part one: DECEMBER 4 Part two: DECEMBER 11 Part three: DECEMBER 18 Mondays, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm WWII was replete with assorted elements of resistance among the peoples of Germany, Poland and particularly among the Jews. Dr. Leon Weissberg will lead us in a discussion and review of the different forms of resistance that occurred during WWII by the Church, the Germans, the Partisans, the Jews and diplomats. Explore the various modes of resistance implemented by these groups over six years of WWII. at 10:30 a.m. Series special feature with Rabbi Dr. Leon Weissberg in a virtual conversation with Richard Hurowitz, author of In the Garden of the Righteous, a profile of those who risked their lives to save others, a testament to their kindness and courage. Community/

PACE PASS 2023-24 SEASON JANUARY 14 Orlove Auditorium Grand Re-Opening FAFUMN FIOLRYTHE I am Ruth Bader Ginsberg with Brad Meltzer Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 'Ordinary People Change the World' series and the work of South Florida’s own Brad Meltzer with the launch of his latest book, I am Ruth Bader Ginsburg. \"Every day, our culture focuses more on fame rather than character. These books are our way of fighting back, to help kids build character, kindness and compassion, one real hero at a time..\" Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of thrillers like The Lightning Rod, non-fiction books like The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill FDR, Stalin and Churchill, gift books like Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter, and of course, the Ordinary People Change the World series. He also helped find the missing 9/11 flag with his History Channel television show, Brad Meltzer's Lost History. Community/

PACE PASS 2023-24 SEASON FEBRUARY 15, 7:00 pm Orlove Auditorium @ DPJCC Amidst certain death and unspeakable atrocities, the Jews knew Hitler wanted to not only eliminate Jewry but also erase a culture. Join us for an evening to remember the Jewish intellectuals, composers and artists in the camps who preserved a degree of humanity in the face of certain death and unspeakable horror. Community/ MARCH 3, 5:30 pm FAFUMN FIOLRYTHE Orlove Auditorium @ DPJCC Bring the family for an entertaining evening of bingo, mocktails and a hands-on craft room for the kids. Winners will receive prize packages! Ticket includes one adult and one child. Community/

PACE PASS 2023-24 SEASON MARCH 11, 7:00 pm Orlove Auditorium @ DPJCC An evening with award-winning critic, cultural historian and author, Jeremy Eichler. The book captures the power of music as culture’s memory as he explores four composers who lived through WWII and the Holocaust and went on to create transcendent works of music. Time’s Echo is a lyrical narrative that deepens how we think about the legacies of war, the memory of culture and the renewed promise of art in our lives today. Community/ MARCH 20, 7:00 pm Orlove Auditorium @ DPJCC Who hasn’t dreamed of retiring to an idyllic estate in the English country-side? In Lauren Belfer’s Ashton Hall, that vision turns out to be a bit more complex when Hannah Larson visits her ailing relative at the titular historic manor house with Nicky, her young son with special needs. What starts out as a family visit becomes much more unexpected the moment Nicky comes across a hidden room cloistering a sixteenth-century skeleton. Community/

PACE PASS 2023-24 SEASON MARCH 23, 7:00 pm Orlove Auditorium @ DPJCC Enjoy a night of Klezmer! Klezmer music has its origins in Europe among the Ashkenazi Jews. The word is a Yiddish contraction of the Hebrew words for instrument (kley) and song/melody (zemer). This traditional folk music borrows inspiration from music from the synagogue, European folk music, and even classical music. It is at its heart cheerful, party music. Community/ APRIL 8, 7:00 pm Orlove Auditorium @ DPJCC Hotel Cuba with Aaron Hamburger Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl Kahn and her lovestruck, impulsive younger sibling Frieda hope to reach America. When discriminatory new immigration laws bar their entry, the young women sail instead to Havana, Cuba, convinced that there they will find a way to overcome this setback. A heartbreaking, epic family story, Hotel Cuba explores the profound courage of two women displaced from their home who strive to create a new future in an enticing and dangerous world far different from anything they have ever known. Community/

PACE PASS 2023-24 SEASON MAY 9, 7:00 pm Orlove Auditorium @ DPJCC Artist Danny Glass will share a presentation on his artwork and his experience as the inaugural artist for our new Artist-in-Residence program at the DPJCC: HaMakom. HaMakom welcomes local and regional artists into our community to observe, interact and create with our members. Danny Glass is a contemporary artist with an active studio practice in the South Florida area. He has exhibited widely in the US and abroad, including Spectrum Miami at Art Basel Miami and Art Expo in NYC. His work has been awarded at juried shows across America, Canada and at Art Olympia in Japan. Danny has been featured in various print and digital publications, most recently as one of Fine Art Connoisseur’s “Five to Watch.” Community/ Crowd II by Danny Glass RISD Museum by Danny Glass

Diane and Barry Wilen VIRTUAL JEWISH BOOK FESTIVAL 2023-24 Community The Enemy Beside Me OCTOBER 9 Naomi Ragen Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen’s The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about two people fighting for reconciliation over unforgivable crimes of the past. Small Sacrifice for an OCTOBER 17 Enormous Happiness Jai Chakrabarti Jai Chakrabarti’s debut story collection centers on families both lost and found. The best stories in the collection are intricately crafted, nuanced explorations of child-rearing through the lenses of class, race and privilege. All programs begin at 3:30 PM EST Recordings available after each event Purchase books at bookshop.com

Loyalty DECEMBER 4 Lisa Scottoline Loyalty is an emotional, action packed epic, set during the rise of the Mafia well before the events of The Godfather. This novel transports the reader to 19th century Sicily, a dramatic and ruggedly beautiful island where lush lemon groves and mouth watering cuisine contrast with a turbulent history of colonization and corruption. The Skincare Hoax DECEMBER 19 Fayne L. Frey, MD The Skincare Hoax is an exposé on the marketing tactics used that get us all to buy over-the-counter skincare. It will make you rethink everything you know about skincare. You’ll learn about the well-kept secrets of the skincare industry, how media ads influence our buying decisions and get recommendations for effective products and simple skincare regimens that are easy and affordable. Honest Aging JANUARY 29 Roxanne M. Leipzig Honest Aging provides guidance for common health concerns, including problems with memory, energy, mood, sleep, weight, sex and more. Leipzig shares advice on how to make decisions about healthcare, driving and where to live. She includes helpful checklists and lists of medications to prepare for doctor and hospital visits. Enriched by illustrations, patient stories, and deep dives into science and the latest research, Honest Aging gives you the tools to take control of your health and well-being as you age. The Cost of Free Land FEBRUARY 5 Rebecca Clarren Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her immigrant family’s origins. Her great great grandparents, the Sinykins and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, ultimately settling on a 160 acre homestead in South Dakota. What none of Clarren’s ancestors ever mentioned was that their land, the foundation for much of their wealth, had been cruelly taken from the Lakota by the United States government. America had broken hundreds of treaties with hundreds of Indigenous nations across the continent, and the land that had once been reserved for the seven bands of the Lakota had been diminished, splintered, and handed for free, or practically free, to white settlers. In The Cost of Free Land, Clarren melds investigative reporting with personal family history to reveal the intertwined stories of her family and the Lakota and the devastating cycle of loss of Indigenous land, culture and resources that continues today. All programs begin at 3:30 PM EST Recordings available after each event Purchase books at bookshop.com

Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories MARCH 19 Michael Poster This third and final volume covers the last thirty years of Cohen’s life, from the mid 1980s to his death in 2016 at the age of eighty-two. It follows his extensive touring, his experiences recording and writing, his love affairs, his struggles with depression and substances, his troubled relationship with his two children and his illness and death, among other things. Unlike a conventional biography, which looks to written historical sources, Posner’s oral biography relies on the memories of others. Because memories are frequently unreliable — as Posner readily acknowledges — the results can be contradictory, inexact, impressionistic and/or just plain mistaken. Sinkable APRIL 1 Daniel Stone It’s one of the most beloved stories of all time, and it has the most gut-wrenching human themes: tragedy, trauma and survival. But what came next? Sinkable is a sequel to the widely known Titanic story — not of a ship, but of a wreck, complete with a century’s worth of scientific, economic and biological oddities. It’s a character-driven story about shipwrecks and the strange underworld of obsessive people who devote their lives to sunken ships. It includes tons of fun stories about big ships, our mysterious oceans and some wild CIA operations you’ve never heard of. Birchers APRIL 16 Matthew Dallek Satirized by Pete Seeger, ridiculed by a young Bob Dylan and dismissed as an organization for misfits and “little old ladies in tennis shoes,” the John Birch Society attracted 100,000 members within a few years of its founding in 1948. As historian Matthew Dallek’s highly readable account of the Society’s rise tells us, the organization’s mix of Cold War paranoia and “don’t tread on me” libertarianism has both shaped and remained key to contemporary political culture. From the very beginning, the John Birch Society was rooted in conspiracy theory. Contrary to popular belief, the Society’s founders were not of the fringe. They were prominent and upright citizens — “rich, white … colossi bestriding the world’s most dynamic economy.” The Escape Artist Jonathan Freedland MAY 13 What is the role of truth in today’s society? What part does denial play in our comprehension of the world around us? How is our fragile memory to be understood and preserved? Jonathan Freedland’s superb writing simultaneously explores these questions and fills the reader with rage, despair and admiration for the stubborn resistance of the human spirit. It is heart-wrenching to read the story of Rudolf Vrba, who is a mere nineteen years of age, and his fellow concentration camp inmate Fred Wetzler, who is twenty six. It is the spring of 1944, and the two young men are enduring a harrowing incarceration in Auschwitz when the extraordinary happens. Melding their minds and spirits, they hatch an outrageous plan: To be the first Jews to escape from this most highly guarded prison. Once the world knows, they are certain that steps will be taken to save the Jews in Europe. Holocaust history has long honored its heroes. Now, with this new story of a complex, formerly hidden hero, Rudolf Vrba can take his well-deserved place in public memory. All programs begin at 3:30 PM EST Recordings available after each event Purchase books at bookshop.com

Jews Across the Americas MAY 28 Adriana M. Brodsky & Laura Arnold Leibman Jews Across the Americas features an impressively broad and far reaching range of historical sources, including artifacts and objects that have not previously been featured as integral to Jewish history in the Western hemisphere. Entries teach readers how to understand everything from wills and advertisements to sermons, as well as how to interpret photographs, domestic architecture and comics. Whether it’s a recipe that blends Moroccan and Amazonian food ways from Brazil, or a text about the first non-binary Jew to cross the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, each entry broadens our understanding of Jewish American history. Jews Across the Americas is a ground breaking source book capturing the historical diversity and cultural breadth of American Jews across Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada and the United States. Featuring primary documents as well as scholarly interpretations, Jews Across the Americas builds upon new developments in Jewish Studies, engaging with transnationalism, race, sexuality, gender and highlighting the lived experiences of those often left out of Jewish history. All programs begin at 3:30 PM EST Recordings available after each event Purchase books at bookshop.com