Special Events
Events and Happenings
Wed., Feb. 15 • 7:00 p.m. • JCC Auditorium • Free
Dr. John Newport, Author of The Tucson Tragedy
Dr. Newport’s book (with forward by Rabbi Stephanie Aaron) portrays the human side of last year’s shooting and its aftermath, and focuses on the wave of healing that continues to permeate our community.
Copies of Dr. Newport’s book will be available with a portion of the proceeds benefitting Arts & Culture programming at the JCC.
Mon., Mar. 12 • 7:00 p.m. • JHC • Free
A MAD Evening with Mary-Lou Weisman
Award-winning journalist and author, Mary-Lou Weisman, discusses her recently completed biography of renowned MAD Magazine cartoonist, Al Jaffee. Al Jaffee’s MAD Life recounts the absurd and implausible tale of how, in 1927, when many Jews were fleeing Europe if they could, Jaffee’s mother uprooted her children from their middle-class lives in Savannah, Georgia, and returned to the Lithuanian shtetl of her birth.
Weisman shares the sometimes startling results uncovered by her research, as well as her insights into alienation and the sources of Jewish humor. Autographed copies of her book will be available for purchase.
Sunday, April 15th • 1:00 p.m. •Auditorium
Film – Prisoner of her Past
Prisoner of her Past follows jazz critic Howard Reich’s journey to understand his mother’s struggle with late-onset Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, more than sixty years after her flight from Nazi-occupied Poland.
2:00 p.m. Panel discussion with the filmmaker and Michael Wm. Marks, Ph.D., ABPP, Lead Psychologist, Southern Arizona Veterans’ Administration Health Care System
3:00 Reception – JHC
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