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October 2019
JRT Presents: Oh My God
OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
Find out more »November 2019
JRT Presents: Oh My God
OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
Find out more »Survival During the Holocaust
Please join us to hear Dr. Herman Stone tell his story of survival during the Holocaust. This lecture is part of Kristallnacht Week Commemoration.
Find out more »Dr. Noam Pine Lecture
Join us to hear Dr. Noam Pines from UB's Department of Jewish Thought Kristallnacht was a series of unprecedented pogroms which marked the culmination of Nazi antisemitic policy toward German Jews, in which thousands of Nazi party members and German civilians destroyed synagogues, looted Jewish shops, and physically assaulted and abused Jewish people. The lecture will address the events leading to Kristallnacht, and evaluate its aftermath, such as the death of 91 Jews and the transportation of 30,000 Jews to…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
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OH MY GOD! By Anat Gov October 24 - November 17, 2019 God walks into a therapists’ office….. When a conflicted and depressed God seeks out an earthly therapist to aid him with his wrenching doubts, it is not always clear who is providing therapy to whom. Ella, a single mother living with her autistic son, is a therapist with issues of her own, but has only one session to convince God not to give up on his creation. How…
Find out more »December 2019
JRT Presents: Holiday Shorts
By Atlanta playwright Hank Kimmel A funny series of offbeat, comic 10-minute plays ranging from the saucy to the sanguine to the sentimental, all featuring themes of the holiday season. FREE event Reservations are recommended. To reserve your seats call 716-688-4114, ext. 335 or email jrt@jccbuffalo.org
Find out more »January 2020
JRT Presents: God of Vengeance
By Sholem Asch, translation by Los Angeles playwright Steve Fife An English translation of the Yiddish play that inspired the Broadway hit, INDECENT, which The Kavinoky Theatre is presenting, in collaboration with JRT, March 6 – 29, 2020. This event will also feature the JCC’s Yiddish Club performing an excerpt of the play in Yiddish. Free event. Reservations are recommended. To reserve your seats call 716-688-4114, ext. 335 or email jrt@jccbuffalo.org The Jewish Repertory Theatre of Western New York is…
Find out more »February 2020
JRT Presents: What I Thought I Knew
WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
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WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
Find out more »March 2020
JRT Presents: What I Thought I Knew
WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW By Alice Eve Cohen February 6 - March 1, 2020 Alice, an infertile Jewish woman in her forties, discovers a hard lump in her abdomen. After months of visiting expensive specialists, all of whom have different medical theories, a CT scan finally reveals that she is pregnant. Based upon true events and the book hailed by Oprah as “darkly hilarious…an unexpected bundle of joy,” this heartfelt journey through a high-risk pregnancy and the American healthcare…
Find out more »April 2020
JRT Presents: Modern Orthodox
MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
Find out more »May 2020
JRT Presents: Modern Orthodox
MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
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MODERN ORTHODOX By Daniel Goldfarb April 23 - May 17, 2020 When Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring, their differing views of their shared religion at first divides them. Three months later, with respective love interests and love stories on paths they could not have predicted, Ben and Hershel meet again as changed men, no longer divided by their faith. They have learned something from each other, and…
Find out more »June 2020
JRT Presents: Finding Mr. Rightstein
By Buffalo born writer Nancy Kelton In this heartbreaking, hilarious memoir, Nancy Davidoff Kelton takes us from the gray house of her Buffalo childhood with a depressed mother who was in and out of "the nervous hospital," to the often daunting but never dull world of dating as a divorced mom in Manhattan. This event is part of the JCC’s Book & Arts Fair. $10/general, $5/students. Reservations are recommended. To reserve your seats call 716-204-2084 or email KWzontek@jccbuffalo.org The Jewish…
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