Women of GJC invite you to come learn about today’s most-compelling topic, gun violence, with Shira Goodman, Executive Director of CeaseFire PA. As an added bonus, there will be a screening of “A Time for Advocacy,” a video about how Jewish Women have become involved in gun violence prevention. Light brunch will be served. RSVP greatly
Germantown Jewish Centre, along with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, are pleased to present "A Nation on the Couch" with Dr. Keren Friedman-Peleg. Based on fieldwork Dr. Keren Friedman-Peleg has conducted at two leading NGOs in Israel (NATAL-The Israel Center for Victims of Terror and War, and the
The focus of this talk will be on recent proposals to create a "New Green Deal" as a way to address climate change by lowering our carbon emissions, and to provide a more secure and equitable future for Americans. Recently the design community has taken on these challenges to envision approaches and directions to pursue
Germantown Jewish Centre invites you to our 36th annual Ralph Granger Memorial Shabbat, “Reimagining Our Journey Toward Racial Justice” with Reverend Dr. Gregory Edwards on Saturday, January 18. As GJC prepares to focus and expand our long term commitment to racial justice work, we’ve invited Rev. Edwards to guide and inspire our work by examining
Visiting scholar Rabbi Haviva will share her journey from Orthodox feminist to post-denominational inter-spiritual rabbinic director of the only pluralist mikveh in Israel, where she creates and officiates intimate personalized ceremony and runs customized group workshops. In addition to sharing from her books, Rabbi Haviva will guide a text study and discussion, exploring the development
Because of concerns for our community’s health and safety due to the spread of the COVID-19 Virus, NIF has decided to cancel this Sunday’s program at Germantown Jewish Centre. We thank you for your understanding. Your interest and support is greatly appreciated and we hope to schedule another program soon.
Join GJC's Israel Programming and Women of GJC for a special program to celebrate Yom ha-Atzma'ut! Liraz Cohen, founder of Fashionating by Liri and leader of the NY-Israel Fash&Tech community, will join us for a program via Zoom: "From the Kibbutz to the Big City Tel-Aviv: The History of Israeli Fashion." The presentation tells the
What sets Jewish humor apart from other styles of humor, and what connects Israeli humor to Jewish humor? Who are the pioneers of Israeli humor, and what makes Israel humor so sharp and dark? Israeli comic and TV personality Yair Nitzani speaks about the making of Israeli comedy, the impact of the military on Israeli
The United States’ role in saving Europe’s intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap, and Richard Courant, among hundreds of other physicists, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, chemists, and linguists who
Join Women of GJC and the Men’s Club for a program with Emily Bazelon, columnist for the New York Times. After hearing Emily speak, moderator Richard Bazelon will lead participants through a question and answer session with plenty of room for discussion. Access via smartphone, tablet, or computer: use this Zoom link Access via telephone:
