The Golem of Brooklyn
Saturday, March 14, 12:45–2:00 p.m.
by Adam Mansbach, led by Judy Paktor
A golem is a clay protector from Jewish folklore. Len Bronstein, a Brooklyn art teacher, accidentally brings one to life while high. Unable to communicate with the nine-foot-six, Yiddish-speaking golem, he enlists Miri Apfelbaum to translate. After learning English from Curb Your Enthusiasm and LSD, the golem realizes he was summoned by a familiar threat: white nationalists chanting, “Jews will not replace us.”
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
Saturday, April 11, 12:45–2:00 p.m.
by Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby, led by Shmuel Shottan
Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby tackle tough questions about Jews—money, power, Zionism, and antisemitism—head on. They debunk loaded myths, explore Jewish identity as religion, culture, and peoplehood, and examine the intersections of Black and Jewish history. Drawing from their different backgrounds, they make complex, uncomfortable topics accessible, tracing antisemitism from the past to the present and warning that hatred toward one group never stands alone.
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
Saturday, May 9, 12:45–2:00 p.m.
by Michael Frank, led by Paul Freudenthal
The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.
To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
Saturday, June 13, 12:45–2:00 p.m.
by Noah Feldman, led by Miriam Marr
What does it mean to be Jewish today? In a time of global crisis, legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifetime of engagement with Judaism to explore how Jews understand their relationship to God, Israel, and one another—and how they live those values now.