Jewish Community Center – Maxine and Robert Seller Theater

Cultural Arts and JRT team up to present a special film series. View the film version of the plays being produced this season by the JRT. Popcorn and refreshments included Monday, November 14 | 7:00 pm- 9:30 pm Screening of “The Chosen” (On stage at the JRT Oct 27-Nov 20) The Chosen traces a friendship between two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn at the end of World War II. Reuven Malter, the narrator and one of the novel's two protagonists, is a traditional Orthodox Jew. He is the son of David Malter, a dedicated scholar and humanitarian. Monday, February 20 | 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Screening of “Tuesdays with Morrie” (On stage at the JRT Feb 2 – Feb 26) Based on the 2006 best-selling memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie is the autobiographical story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor. Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie’s appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Mitch is reunited with Morrie, and what starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class […]