It's Happening In Miami

Join us on Tuesday, November 19 at 7:30 PM at the Miami Beach JCC, for an evening with with artist Laura Paresky Gould in conversation with Mindy Solomon, founder of the Mindy Solomon Gallery. Explore Gould’s latest book, SEEING DIFFERENTLY: Miami Color Theory, featuring over 110 vibrant images of Miami’s architectural beauty. Enjoy a discussion, Q&A session, and book signing.

Miami Color Theory is a photography project by award-winning artist and graphic designer Laura Paresky Gould. The series, shot on an iPhone and posted daily to Instagram, focuses on the colors, lines, and shapes of Miami’s built environment, and encourages the practice of seeing to appreciate the beauty all around us. Her book, SEEING DIFFERENTLY: MIAMI COLOR THEORY (Tra Publishing, 2023) and video series for The Bass, Miami Beach’s contemporary art museum, focus on minimal photography and include engaging lessons on art and perception. Gould discovers hidden delights in even the smallest of details, creating a feeling of joy, and spurring viewers to capture the visual treats in their own surroundings.

Laura Paresky Gould is a graphic designer, animator, photographer, fine artist and entrepreneur based in Miami Beach.

In January 2021, just before Adobe Flash was removed from all major browsers, she recorded a keepsake copy of her vintage portfolio of animations, logo designs and saturated colorful photos captured on film. She decided to start shooting architecture and inanimate objects again, only this time with an iPhone. She posts these images onto her Instagram account @miamicolortheory.

Come to the Miami Beach JCC for the opening night of their Israeli Film Series with the screening of the wonderful comedy - Matchmaking- on Monday, November 18 at 7:30 pm.

Endlessly witty, visually rapturous, and sweetly romantic, Matchmaking is a Romeo and Juliet-like saga .A joyous tale about tolerance and love, Matchmaking is Israel's biggest box office hit of the year and is full of hi-jinks, jokes, and slapstick humor thanks to matchmaker Malki (Irit Kaplan from the beloved Israeli show The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem and Academy Award entry Foxtrot) and her deputy, Baruch (Maor Schwitzer from the internationally acclaimed show Shtisel), along with plenty of one-liners about spicy salads and noodle kugels, with a heavy dose of Yiddish sprinkled into the Hebrew script.

The Israeli Film Series is sponsored by South Pointe Tavern

To RSVP: https://mbjcc.ticketleap.com/matchmaking/

Best-selling author Samantha Greene Woodruff will talk about her latest book, The Trade Off at the JCC's Literary Luncheon/Community Read Inaugural Event on Wednesday, November 13 at 12:30 PM.

A grip­ping his­tor­i­cal tale of greed, ambi­tion, and fam­i­ly ties from best­selling author Saman­tha Greene Woodruff. In roar­ing ’20s Man­hat­tan, Bea Abramovitz is a young Jew­ish woman with a tal­ent for math and an uncan­ny under­stand­ing of the stock mar­ket. Bea dreams of work­ing as a bro­ker on Wall Street and her smarts and tenac­i­ty land her an inter­view at the famous House of Mor­gan, in the new Ladies Depart­ment, a divi­sion cre­at­ed to man­age female clien­tele. She yearns to put her uncan­ny stock-pick­ing skills to bet­ter use, but the male-dom­i­nat­ed world of Wall Street won’t accept her. When her twin broth­er Jake returns home after los­ing every­thing in a Ponzi scheme out west, Bea sees her oppor­tu­ni­ty: he’ll get the job on Wall Street, and she’ll pick the stocks. With Bea’s help, Jake’s star swift­ly ris­es at Nation­al City Bank. As the decade draws to a close, every­one else is cel­e­brat­ing the country’s new state of “per­ma­nent pros­per­i­ty” but Bea sees signs of a crash loom­ing.

Sam’s debut nov­el, The Lobotomist’s Wife, was a #1 Ama­zon best­seller and First Reads pick. Her writ­ing has appeared in Newsweek, Writer’s Digest, Female First, Read 650 and more.

To RSVP: https://mbjcc.ticketleap.com/woodruff/

Please join us for a special evening, Thursday, November 7, 7:30 pm at the Miami Beach JCC with Alexandra Zapruder, author of Salvaged Pages.

Alexandra Zapruder will speak about her groundbreaking anthology of excerpts from diaries of children of the Holocaust, some who survived but many who did not.

Alexandra is the author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust. She was one of the original staff members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Among many ongoing responsibilities, she serves as the Education Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation.

Sponsored and Co-presented with the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach as a part of Holocaust Education Week.

To RSVP: https://mbjcc.ticketleap.com/children/

Please join us for the Miami Beach JCC – Wednesdays at the J - JCC-U Open House on Wednesday, November 6 at 11:00 am with a special guest, Dr. Arjun Desai, a leading specialist on longevity and health. Baptist Health will be on hand for health screenings. Meet our instructors in bridge, canasta, krav maga, guitar and much more

A free lunch will be served. Our keynote speaker for the day is Dr. Arjun (JJ) Desai, MD who leads the strategy for future platforms, luminary ecosystem development, clinical and economic data analytics and modeling, and Medical Advisory Board operational support at INSIGHTEC.

The JCC-U program made possible with the generous support of Baptist Health. The line-up of classes for Wednesday’s JCC-U will include:

9:15 AM – Coffee & Conversation: Kickstart your JCC-U Day with the perfect blend of coffee, engaging conversation, and a dash of surprise opics. Join the lively discussions led by the Moderator/ Host, Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff.

10:00 am - Choose one

Music History with Alan Mason Each week Allan will introduce you to great moments that shaped the music that we enjoy.

Chair Yoga with Marta Molnar Chair yoga, a gentle form of yoga that’s done while seated or using a chair for balance, makes the practice more accessible. 11:15 am - Choose one

Art History: This is a class for all art lovers. Learn about the great masters and art appreciation with Batia Cohen in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

Spiritual movement and Torah Mediation with Havi Heber Kunis

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Lunch the Miami Beach JCC will host an event with Sharsheret on Wednesday,event on October 30th from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm - "A Look at Healing through Expressive Arts." Join us as we honor the stories of breast cancer survivors and explore how various forms of art—music, visual, literary, and dance—play a crucial role in healing and enhancing well-being. We will view a documentary film produced by Alina Ko of Art Garden Productions, hear from one of the film's artists, and learn with a music therapist from Miami Cancer Institute.

The program will include screening guidelines and other pertinent information from Sharsheret to support our discussion.

After the Lunch & Learn session, everyone is welcome to stay and enjoy the open play of Canasta and Mahjong.

To RSVP go to: https://mbjcc.ticketleap.com/sharsheret-program/

Panelists:

Mali Schwartz, Breast Cancer Survivor and Sharsheret Ambassador

Alexa Marsellos, Music Therapist, Miami Cancer Institute

Deborah Litwak, Florida Program Coordinator, Sharsheret

Co-sponsored with Sharsheret, a Jewish Breast Cancer Organization, in Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Monday, October 21 at 7:30 PM

Join us at the Miami Beach JCC for Sip & Savor in the Sukkah under the stars. Enjoy arak-based cocktails, tasty bites and live music in our beautifully decorated Sukkah on the pool deck. Experience a delightful evening of cocktails, bites and networking under the stars.

The Miami-inspired flavors of Miami Arak will be featured.

All of the cocktails and food will be kosher.

Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Please join us for a special evening, Monday, September 23, 7:30 pm at the Miami Beach JCC for a very special evening on Building Bridges/Construyendo Puentes: Holocaust History and the Spanish-Speaking World.

Learn how the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is building bridges between Holocaust history and the Spanish-speaking world through its content in English and Spanish, and its collections from Latin America. Holocaust survivor Dr. Miriam Klein-Kassenoff will also speak about how these resources and collections have impacted education in the greater Miami area.

Presented by Christina E. Chavarría, Program Manager, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dr. Miriam Klein-Kassenoff, Education Chair, Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach & Founding Director, Holocaust Teacher Institute at University of Miami.

To RSVP: https://mbjcc.ticketleap.com/buildingbridges/

Please join us on Sunday, September, 29, 9:00 am for a family friendly, morning program on the MBJCC Sol Stern Dock as we use the kayaks and canoes of the Mariner Program to help keep the Indian Creek Waterway clean from plastic and other debris, in a pre-High Holiday - Reverse Tashlich! We will help the environment and help keep the intercostal behind the JCC! Bring your children and grandchildren! Lifeguards will be on duty. Community Service hours are available. This is a program of the Tikkun HaYam - Repair the Sea organization which organizes Reverse Tashlich programs all over the world. Volunteers from the climate and environmental organization VolunteerCleanUp.org. Volunteer Clean Up organization is focused building a grassroots movement against marine debris by helping facilitate educational shoreline, waterway and neighborhood cleanups. What is a Reverse Tashlich? Sponsored by the Jewish organization Tikkun HaYam-Repair the Sea, the Reverse Tashlich program, conducted worldwide, reimagines the High Holiday Tashlich ceremony of symbolically casting away sins into water. The symbolism is reversed: participants come together to clean up waterways that impact our lives, fostering a spiritual connection to and stewardship for the environment. A donation of $18 per person is requested (children under 12 are free). MB JCC Lifeguards will be present. Refreshments will be served! (This is a plastic free event - please bring reusable water bottles. We will have water for refills.) Community Service hours are available. A portion of the proceeds support the MBJC Mariners program and our co-sponsor for the day, VolunteerCleanUp.org, a non-profit dedicated to sponsoring a grassroots movement for clean beaches, shorelines and waterways. They will be on hand to assist with nets, grabbers, buckets and other equipment.

Join the Gordon School at the Center for Jewish Life for our Open House on October 22, 2024 at 8:30am.

During this time you can meet our Head of School, Directors, tour our campus and learn about the admissions process to apply for the 2025-2026 school year. Please use this link to register for security purposes.

For any additional questions, please contact the Admissions Director at [email protected].

Looking forward to seeing you there!